John (Garrison) Johnston (abt. 1824 - 1900)

Born about 1 Jul 1824 in Little York, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States

Died 21 Jan 1900 at about age 75 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Jeremiah (Garrison) Johnston is Notable.

Pvt. Jeremiah (Garrison) Johnston served with the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War
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A solitary individual who shed the blood of others so that civilization might progress and advance, John Johnston became a legendary Mountain Man of America's rugged and brutal western slopes. His birth site in New Jersey is marked with a sign along the road,^[1]and a cabin he lived in rests at a Red Lodge, Montana tourism office. His expulsion from the Navy during the conflict between Mexico and the United States was expunged when he enlisted as a Private in the Colorado Cavalry for the Civil War.

Jeremiah (Garrison) Johnston served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1864
Mustered out: 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Company H, 2nd Regiment, Colorado Cavalry

A land patent bears his name and gives ownership to acreage south of Red Lodge, where he served as a Deputy Sheriff.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Birthplace Marker
2. ↑ Bureau of Land Management General Land Office

• Find A Grave: Memorial #4943
• Mountain Man Jeremiah Johnston, Wikipedia

• "United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS5D-L2Z : viewed October 2020 by C.S. Russak, III), John Johnson, Private, Company H, 2nd Regiment, Colorado Cavalry, Union; citing NARA microfilm publication M534, image 780, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 2; FHL microfilm 821,999