Joseph John Johnston was born March 26, 1817 in Halifax County, NC and died November 3, 1864 at Camp Douglas, IL Married Elizabeth Velvin on December 10, 1839 in Coweta County, GA Elizabeth was born June 1818 in Georgia and died August 1904 in Carroll County, GA.
Children:
Rebecca Emily
Mary Frances
James P.
Willis M.
Robert
Sarah E.
Celia Saxon
Kiziah Texas
Louisa Ann
Vesta
Eliza Jane
John Thomas
Note:Joseph John Johnston is buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL at the Confederate Mound.
Note: Elizabeth is buried at County Line Baptist Church Cemetery, Carroll County, GA.
Note: Service record shows that Joseph John Johnston enlisted in Company K, 1st Georgia Reserve, on April 27, 1864 in Atlanta; was captured near Chattahoochee July 13, 1864, was sent to Camp Douglas, IL where he died November 3, 1864. The service record also shows him to have ben 5' 10" with fair complexion, light hair and blue eyes.
Elizabeth Velvin Johnston made affidavit on April 18, 1891 that "while at hom on sick furlough, in July 1864, he was caputred by Stoneman's raid and carried to prison at Camp Douglas, IL and died, a prisoner of war, in said prison in October 1864." The file also includes an affidavit by B P Newell that "he was in prison at Camp Douglas, IL, in October 1864 and saw J J Johnston die and assisted in puttin him in his coffin." Various documents in the record gives the date of his death as October 26, 1864, but the service record gives the date as November 3, 1864.
