John J. Knox
American army officer in the Civil War
About John J. Knox
John J. Knox was a major in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and a leading figure in the Freedmen's Bureau. Knox Institute was named for him. Monroe Morton attended the Knox Institute and became a messenger for Major Knox.
Johnston was seriously injured during the Civil War and suffered from severe dysentery afterwards.
"I do not like to be forced to leave any part of the American Continent for political opinion honestly and such conscientiously entertained. A friend of liberty I have lived and such will I die," Major Knox wrote.
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American army officer in the Civil War
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