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Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.
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Johnston and horse
As the Confederate forces overran the Union camps, Johnston seemed to be everywhere, personally leading and rallying troops up and down the line on his horse.
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" Harris and other staff officers removed Johnston from his horse and carried him to a small ravine near the " Hornets Nest " and desperately tried to aid the general by trying to make a tourniquet for his leg wound, but little could be done by this point since he had already lost so much blood.
Johnston was puzzled by the okapi tracks the natives showed him ; while he had expected to be on the trail of some sort of forest-dwelling horse, the tracks were of some cloven-hoofed beast.
* Atop the tomb is a 1877 equestrian statue of General Albert Sidney Johnston on his horse " Fire-eater ", holding binoculars in his right hand.
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The task of providing all this beef went to a Scotsman living in Canada named John Lawson Johnston.
After Zucker's death, the board named his widow Anita Zucker as HBC Governor and HBC Deputy-Governor Rob Johnston as CEO.
The islands were not officially named until Captain Charles J. Johnston of the Royal Naval ship sighted them on December 14, 1807.
* March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County ( named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon ) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties.
* February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.
The glacial Lake Lapworth, was named for him by Leonard Johnston Wills in recognition of his original suggestion of its existence in 1898.
In January 1856, Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston established Camp Cooper ( named after Samuel Cooper ) on the banks of the Clear Fork to protect the reservation.
It was named for Gabriel Johnston, Governor of North Carolina from 1734 to 1752.
Once again a more senior general named Johnston deferred to the junior Beauregard in planning the attack.
The museum was named after Colonel Gordon Johnston, an American soldier who served in the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War and World War I.
* Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ethnographer and U. S. Indian agent who named many counties and places in Michigan in his official capacity ; husband of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.
Every August, 10 days are devoted to " Bill Johnston's Pirate Days ", a town-wide festival that features professional performers acting out pirate battles and a " siege " of the town by none-other than the " Pirate of the Thousand Islands ," Bill Johnston ( pirate ), whom the festival is named after.
Southport developed around Fort Johnston and was originally named Smithville.
Elly is named after a friend who died when Johnston was young.
The name is a blend of the names of the three people who devised it: speech therapist Margaret Walker, and two psychiatric hospital visitors from the Royal Association for Deaf people named Katharine Johnston and Tony Cornforth.
In 1904 an American named Emily Johnston de Forest traveled to Mexico with her husband and discovered Talavera.
When Vander Zalm resigned on April 2, 1991, Johnston was named interim leader of the party.
The falls at Mambidima on the Luapula River were named Johnston Falls by the British in his honour.
Shortly after 1808, Lawson was appointed aide-de-camp to George Johnston and was granted 500 acres ( 2 km² ) at Prospect, which he named Veteran Hall.
Established in July 1858 by a US Army detachment under the command of Brevet Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston, Camp Floyd was named for then Secretary of War John B. Floyd.
Ballard wasn't initially named to the committee when it was unveiled in March 1957, but took the place of Ian Johnston nine months later.
* Edgecombe County: Jonas Johnston, named county entry taker, seat declared vacant April 27, 1778 ; a new election was held, Johnston was re-elected, and he took office on August 8, 1778
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