James M. Johnson

By 1850 he was living with his family in Marietta, GA. He was probably a student at the Georgia Military Institute in 1857. He was commissioned Captain of the McDonald Guards - First Company, 4th State Brigade - in May 1861, but when that unit disbanded in June, he enlisted as Sergeant in Company E, 14th Georgia Infantry. After the western Virginia Campaign he was discharged for disability on 15 December 1861 and probably returned to Marietta.

On 15 March 1862 he was commissioned Captain of the Blackwell Volunteers - Company L, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion.

He was wounded in the thigh and captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

He was exchanged in October 1862 and wounded again, in the foot, at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through his body at Knoxville, TN on 29 November 1863 and died at US Army General Hospital #5 at 2:30 that afternoon. He was buried in the city cemetery.

His service from Graham.1 He's not found in Henderson's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia for the 14th Infantry. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

See an extensive narrative of Captain Johnson's life and service from Kurt Graham, source also of his picture, from a photograph shared with Mr. Graham by owner Al Camblin.

1836 in NC

11/29/1863; Knoxville, TN; burial in Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, TN