PROFILE of DAVID JOHNSTON
	8th MO Infantry (US) Company K
Map of the Vicksburg Campaign

David Johnston received the Congressional Medal of Honor, as part of the "Forlorn Hope" charge at Vicksburg.

WAR DEPARTMENT INFORMATION BIRTH Indiana County, Pennsylvania ENTERED SERVICE AT Warsaw County, Illinois RANK/ORGANIZATION Private, Company K, 8th Missouri Infantry MOH CITATION Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party." PLACE/DATE At Vicksburg, Mississippi; 22 May 1863 DATE OF ISSUE 16 August 1884 extracted from www.army.mil