Early Life
Johnson was born in Belmont County, Ohio. He was raised as a Quaker and, before moving to the South, worked on the Underground Railroad with his uncle. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1840 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry. He fought in the Seminole War in Florida and the Mexican-American War. He was forced to resign from the Army in 1847 after being accused of selling contraband goods. He worked as a teacher, professor of philosophy and chemistry at the Western Military Institute, Georgetown, Kentucky (1851), and professor of engineering at the University of Nashville (1855). During this period he was active in the state militias of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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