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 Casualty records from Johnson's battery show a private dying on the steamer Champion on May 6. This is presumably when the artillery is on the move from Shiloh to Corinth.
-The Adjutant General<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Office records indicate that Luther died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on 29 May 1862. He and his unit would have been participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth siege on Corinth], which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died.
+The Adjutant General<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Office records indicate that Luther died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on 29 May 1862. He and his unit would have been participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth siege on Corinth], which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died. He was only the third death in the unit since its creation.
 Some Union casualties of Corinth are buried at the Corinth National Cemetery, but I do not see Luther Johnson in the transcribed list.

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	After Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee with the rest of the Army of the Tennessee, it fought in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh Battle of Shiloh], Tennessee (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) on April 6 and 7 of that year. The [[Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents#Letter_from_Mary.3F\|letter for help his wife wrote]] on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?). I think this indicates that Luther wrote another note back home, after the one in our possession, or at least that Mary had word of him in Tennessee after the Union victory at Shiloh, and thus after the word she had from him when he was in Missouri.		After Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee with the rest of the Army of the Tennessee, it fought in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh Battle of Shiloh], Tennessee (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) on April 6 and 7 of that year. The [[Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents#Letter_from_Mary.3F\|letter for help his wife wrote]] on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?). I think this indicates that Luther wrote another note back home, after the one in our possession, or at least that Mary had word of him in Tennessee after the Union victory at Shiloh, and thus after the word she had from him when he was in Missouri.
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		+	Casualty records from Johnson's battery show a private dying on the steamer Champion on May 6. This is presumably when the artillery is on the move from Shiloh to Corinth.

	The Adjutant General<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Office records indicate that Luther died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on 29 May 1862. He and his unit would have been participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth siege on Corinth], which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died.		The Adjutant General<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Office records indicate that Luther died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on 29 May 1862. He and his unit would have been participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth siege on Corinth], which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died.

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 The 2nd Illinois Light Artillery was in the Army of the Tennessee, which was under the ultimate command of Ulysses S. Grant. The ''[https://archive.org/stream/reportofadjutant08illi1#page/710/mode/2up Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois]'' (volume 8 page 710) records a Luther H. Johnson as an artificer in the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery L. The history of that unit given in the same report (page 725) records that it was organized at Camp Douglas by Captain William H. Bolton and mustered in February 28. On March 11 it moved to Benton Barracks, Missouri; to Pittsburgh Landing on April 8; and was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Army of the Tennessee under Brigadier General S. A. Hurlbut.
-Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee with the rest of the Army of the Tennessee. There, the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery L Battery fought in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh Battle of Shiloh], Tennessee (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) on April 6 and 7 of that year. The [[Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents#Letter_from_Mary.3F|letter for help his wife wrote]] on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?). I think this indicates that Luther wrote another note back home, after the one in our possession, or at least that Mary had word of him in Tennessee after the Union victory at Shiloh, and thus after the word she had from him when he was in Missouri.
+After Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee with the rest of the Army of the Tennessee, it fought in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh Battle of Shiloh], Tennessee (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) on April 6 and 7 of that year. The [[Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents#Letter_from_Mary.3F|letter for help his wife wrote]] on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?). I think this indicates that Luther wrote another note back home, after the one in our possession, or at least that Mary had word of him in Tennessee after the Union victory at Shiloh, and thus after the word she had from him when he was in Missouri.
 The Adjutant General<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Office records indicate that Luther died of "disease" or "camp diarrhea" in the field near Corinth on 29 May 1862. He and his unit would have been participating in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Corinth siege on Corinth], which began in April, and ended with the secret evacuation of the Confederate army the night he died.

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 == His Family ==
-Luther married '''[[Mary Jane Bowlby]]''' on 28 Mar 1858 in Galion, Crawford Co., OH.<sup>12</sup>
+Luther married '''[[Loisa Or Louisa Jarrard]]''' on 4 Aug 1846 in Richland County, Ohio. Children from this marriage were: '''[[Delbert Johnson]]''', born on 25 Feb 1856 in Ohio; '''[[Francis Johnson]]''', born on 17 Nov 1853 and died on 11 Jul 1864 at age 10; '''[[Amelia Johnson]]''', born on 11 Sep 1849; and '''[[Elizabeth Johnson]]''', born circa 1848.
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	1860: A federal census entry for Washington, Morrow County, Ohio records the family of a 37 year old laborer named L H Johnson, with Mary J, Amelia A (?), Francis, Delbert and Ida J. All of them are described as born in Ohio.		1860: A federal census entry for Washington, Morrow County, Ohio records the family of a 37 year old laborer named L H Johnson, with Mary J, Amelia A (?), Francis, Delbert and Ida J. All of them are described as born in Ohio.

		+	Civil war records list Luther's residence at time of enlistment in February 1862 as Chicago. He presumably left Ohio for Illinois at some point after the federal census in 1860.

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 We have copies from the National Archives of Luther H. Johnson's "Widow<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Claim for Half-Pay Pension." According to the documents in that file, Luther enlisted at Chicago on or about the 14th day of February 1862 as a private in the Chicago Light Artillery. Other documents give his unit as the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, D Company or Battery. That unit was organized at Camp Douglas and mustered on February 28. They moved to [http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/benton.htm Camp Benton], St. Louis, MO, on March 11. We have in our possession [[ Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents|a copy of a letter]] he wrote home to his family from Camp Benton shortly thereafter, on March 28, which was on file at the National Archives as part of that pension file.
-The 2nd Illinois Light Artillery was in the Army of the Tennessee, which was under the ultimate command of Ulysses S. Grant. The ''[https://archive.org/stream/reportofadjutant08illi1#page/710/mode/2up Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois]'' (volume 8 page 710) records a Luther H. Johnson as an artificer in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_L,_2nd_Regiment_Illinois_Volunteer_Light_Artillery 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery L].
+The 2nd Illinois Light Artillery was in the Army of the Tennessee, which was under the ultimate command of Ulysses S. Grant. The ''[https://archive.org/stream/reportofadjutant08illi1#page/710/mode/2up Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois]'' (volume 8 page 710) records a Luther H. Johnson as an artificer in the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, Battery L. The history of that unit given in the same report (page 725) records that it was organized at Camp Douglas by Captain William H. Bolton and mustered in February 28. On March 11 it moved to Benton Barracks, Missouri; to Pittsburgh Landing on April 8; and was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Army of the Tennessee under Brigadier General S. A. Hurlbut.
 Battery L proceeded to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee with the rest of the Army of the Tennessee. There, the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery L Battery fought in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh Battle of Shiloh], Tennessee (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) on April 6 and 7 of that year. The [[Mary_Jane_Bowlby_Documents#Letter_from_Mary.3F|letter for help his wife wrote]] on June 1 says that Luther has not been heard from in a month, when he was at "Pittsburg Landen" (sic?). I think this indicates that Luther wrote another note back home, after the one in our possession, or at least that Mary had word of him in Tennessee after the Union victory at Shiloh, and thus after the word she had from him when he was in Missouri.