sentences:  He was a noted Indian fighter and provided supplies and animals for the Butterfield Overland Mail stations.On January 1, 1861, he married Josephine Eastland of Austin, with whom he had nine children.When the Civil War began and his native Kentucky struggled to maintain its neutrality, Johnson returned home and joined Nathan B. Forrest's cavalry battalion as a scout, fighting with him at his first engagement at the Battle of Sacramento.