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Johnson K. Duncan

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came through, but he was frustrated with army life. He was the assistant on the Northern Pacific railroad exploration until December 1854. He tendered his resignation from the U.S. Army on January 31, 1855, and entered private life in
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and assigned to the Second U.S. Artillery in July of that year. Not long afterwards, on October 31, he was given the full rank of second lieutenant and reassigned to the Third Artillery. He saw his first combat action serving in the
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Duncan became the Superintendent of Construction and Repairs in New Orleans, in charge of the branch mint, marine hospital, quarantine warehouse, and the Pas a l'Outre boarding station. Duncan, in collaboration with
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on July 1, 1845, and graduated from West Point in June 1849. A good student, he ranked 5th in a class of 43 cadets. With his high academic standing, he was
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in New Orleans. In 1861, he became Chief Engineer of the Board of Public Works of the state of Louisiana.
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of the 1st Louisiana Regular Artillery Regiment and rose in rank and status rather quickly. Promoted to
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of Louisiana troops on January 7, 1862, he was assigned to command the defenses of New Orleans and the
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Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War
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Keystone Confederate: The Life and Times of General Johnson Kelly Duncan, CSA
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Johnson K. Duncan contracted a malarial fever and died far from his native
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in early 1859. From then until 1860, he was professionally occupied as a
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From 1850 until 1853, he was attached to Forts Sullivan and Preble in
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American Civil War prisoners of war held by the United States
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on December 18, 1862, at the age of 35. He was buried in the
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Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.
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Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959.
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959.
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