Johnson Kelly Duncan

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General Duncan

Johnson K. Duncan (* 19th March 1827 in York , Pennsylvania ; † 18th December 1862 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) was a brigadier general of the Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Duncan was born in Pennsylvania in 1827. After normal school years he attended the military academy in West Point , New York , which he graduated in 1849 as the fifth-best of his class. He then served as a lieutenant in the US Army and took part in the Third Seminole War in Florida . In 1855 he resigned and helped establish the administration of New Orleans , Louisiana.

When the Civil War broke out, he entered the service of the Confederate Army with the rank of colonel in the artillery . His first assignment was the defense of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip about 25 miles northwest of the estuary on both banks of the Mississippi 75 miles downstream from New Orleans. On January 7, 1862, Duncan was promoted to brigadier general and had 500 men and 80 guns under him.

On April 18, 1862, the attack by Commodore David Glasgow Farragut , a future admiral of the US Navy , began on the forts commanded by Duncan with a flotilla and a bombardment lasting several hours. Duncan and his men held the defense until April 24th. On this day Farragut managed to break the chain stretched through the Mississippi. After the capture of New Orleans, Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler attacked the forts from the north along with the naval forces. On April 30th, Duncan surrendered and was captured.

After his release on 27 August 1862, he returned to the army back and was given command of a brigade of infantry and took part in the -Feldzug "Heartland". He then became Chief of Staff of General Braxton Bragg in Tennessee, but died shortly afterwards of typhus in Knoxville .

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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SURNAME Duncan, Johnson Kelly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH York , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1862
Place of death Knoxville , Tennessee