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On February 7, 1837, he fought in a duel with Texas Brig.
Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.
The second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, appointed him Secretary of War on December 22, 1838.
Johnston was to provide the defense of the Texas border against Mexican invasion, and in 1839 conducted a campaign against Indians in northern Texas.
In February 1840, he resigned and returned to Kentucky, where he married Eliza Griffin in 1843.
They settled on a large plantation he named China Grove in Brazoria County, Texas.
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