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I. N. (Isaac N.) Johnston
1833–1928
A Union captain’s firsthand account of battle, captivity, and escape, this vivid memoir follows one soldier from the bloody fields of Shiloh and Stone’s River to Libby Prison and Sherman’s campaign against Atlanta.
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Four Months in Libby and the Campaign Against Atlanta
by I. N. (Isaac N.) Johnston
About the author
I. N. Johnston (Isaac N. Johnston, 1833–1928) was a farmer’s son from Henry County, Kentucky, who volunteered for the Union during the American Civil War. The young soldiers of his locality elected him captain of Company H, Sixth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, a regiment that fought at Shiloh, Stone’s River, and Mission Ridge.
Johnston was wounded at Shiloh and again at Stone’s River before being captured at Chickamauga. He was taken to Libby Prison, where he became part of a daring tunnel escape. In 1864, he published Four Months in Libby and the Campaign Against Atlanta, a direct, personal narrative of military service, imprisonment, escape, and the long march toward Atlanta.