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When did Johnston decide to join the confederacy?
he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.
Why did he join the confederacy?
CANNOTANSWER.
Where was his first battle in the civil war?
In the summer of 1861, Davis appointed several generals to defend Confederate lines from the Mississippi River east to the Allegheny Mountains.
Was the campaign successful?
CANNOTANSWER.
What other generals did he serve with?
Tennessee and the Cumberland rivers were placed under the command of Maj.
Gen.
Leonidas Polk and Brig.
Gen.
Gideon J.
Pillow.

Question: What was his second major battle?
Self-contained rewrite: After the 1861 campaign, what was Albert Sydney Johnston's second major battle in the American Civil War?