Stovepipe Johnson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Confederate Army colonel
Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1834
Place of Birth: Henderson, Kentucky, United States
Date of Death: 20-Oct-1922
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Stovepipe Johnson
- Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson (February 6, 1834 – October 20, 1922) was an antebellum Western frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
- Johnson obtained notoriety leading the Newburgh Raid using a force of only about 35 men.
- Johnson and his men confiscated supplies and ammunition without a shot being fired by tricking Newburgh's defenders into thinking the town was surrounded by cannons.
- In reality, the so-called cannons were an assemblage of a stove pipe, a charred log, and wagon wheels, forever giving the Confederate commander the nickname of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson.
- Permanently blinded during a skirmish in 1864, Johnson in 1887 founded the town of Marble Falls, Texas, which became known as "the blind man's town."
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