More Civil War research

On Oct. 2, I posted:

“In 1862, H.H. Johnston, my wife’s great-great-great-grandfather, walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Little Rock. That is 321 miles straight-line, 353 miles by today’s highway.”

I was wrong. It was Pvt. M.H. Johnston, 10th Texas Infantry, and he did not walk from near Fort Worth to Little Rock. Johnston was from the Parker County/Tarrant County area when he enlisted in Co. E, 10th Texas. Co. E walked from the enlistment area to Millican, Texas, in Brazos County and then to Shreveport, La. From Shreveport, the regiment traveled “by water to their destination.”

http://web.archive.org/web/20070312033104/http://members.aol.com/SMckay1234/campnelson.htm

I assume the water route was down the Red River to the Mississippi and then to the Arkansas River and upstream to the Little Rock area. That’s just a guess, though, based on today’s roads and riverways.

Pvt. Martin H. Johnston died in September 1862 in the Little Rock area.