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Albert Sidney Johnston was considered to be the greatest soldier in the country at the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army as a general and was killed the following year at the Battle of Shiloh. He was the highest-ranking soldier to die in battle during the war.

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