Ezekiel William Johnson

On 15 Mar 1781, Ezekiel Johnson fought the largest and most contested battle of the Revolutionary War's Southern Campaign was fought at a small North Caroline back county hamlet of Guilford Courthouse.

Major General Nathaniel Greene, defending the ground with an army of 4,500 American militia and Continentals was defeated by a smaller British army of about 1,900 veteran regulars and German allies commanded by Lord Charles Cornwallis. After 2 1/2 hours of brutal fighting, Cornwallis forced Green to withdraw from the field. Cornwallis' cost of victory was over 25% of his army.

"I never saw such fighting since God made me. The Americans fought like demons." Lt. General Charles, Earl Cornwallis .

Guilford Courthouse was the high water mark of British military operations in the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis abandoned the Carolina's hoping for success in Virginia. At Yorktown VA seven months after his victory at Guilford Courthouse, Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the combined American and French forces under General George Washington.

In 1850 he married Eve Persinger 1741-1806.

JOHNSTON, EZEKIEL DAR Ancestor #: A063917