Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson (February 6, 1834 – October 20, 1922) was an antebellum Western frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Johnson and his men confiscated supplies and ammunition without firing a shot by deceiving Newburgh's defenders into thinking Confederate cannons surrounded the town.

[2] Johnson escaped capture with Forrest after Fort Donelson, when the Confederate commanders decided to surrender their post to the Union besiegers.

His capture of the first Northern city to fall to the Confederates made the news even in Europe, and Johnson's men thereafter nicknamed him "Stovepipe".

Following the Confederate disaster at the Battle of Buffington Island, Johnson led nearly 350 of his men across the rain-swollen Ohio River to safety.

Johnson was exchanged near the war's end and, despite his blindness, attempted to return to active duty before the Confederacy finally surrendered.