W.A. Johnston

Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant Colonel

William A Johnston

(? - 1898)

Home State: North Carolina

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

When Col. Roberts fell ill in May 1862 then-Capt. William A. Johnston of Halifax County, commanding officer of Company A, led the Regiment at the Seven Days battles about Richmond ending July 1.

On the Campaign

He led the Regiment after Col. Bennett assumed command of the Brigade from the wounded Gen Anderson, but was wounded in the arm in the Sunken Road, and was himself relieved by Capt Griffith, Company G.

The rest of the War

He was in command of the Regiment and Lt. Colonel at Appomattox CH in April 1865.

Notes

1 Clark, Walter, editor, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, 5 vols., Raleigh and Goldsboro (NC): E. M. Uzzell, Nash Brothers, printers, 1901, Vol. 1, pg. 705 [AotW citation 1000]

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