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James A. Johnson (Grant County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. 11th Kentucky Cavalry)

b. 1821 d. 1876

Grant County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy H. Carter Johnson. Father of Martha R. Johnson, Edward Ella Johnson, and William C. Johnson. Physician in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Grant County in 1850. Physician in Grant County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 22, 1862 to June 14, 1864. Captured in Monroe County, Tennessee, on October 20, 1863. Discharged on account of disability on June 14, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 354A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 870.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 37B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Williamstown, p. 603B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0108.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 276-7.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Roll 0083, Application 1158, Certificate 214600.

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. XXXIX (Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Printing Company, 1914), 174.

"James A. Johnson (1821-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 118646572, accessed February 7, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118646572.

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Johnson, James A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201716 (November 12, 2026).

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