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Willa Viley Johnson (Scott Co, KY farmer & soldier (CSA) Son of G W Johnson and Ann E Viley Johnson)

b. 1837-03-04 d. 1913-05-05

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Scott County native. Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley Johnson. Married to Lilly Tilford Johnson in 1860. Resident of Scott County in 1850. Served in the First Kentucky Brigade (C.S.A.) as aide-de-camp to General John C. Breckinridge in April 1862. Served under General George Crosby and General Frank Armstrong until 1865. Promoted to Major in May 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 452A.

"Maj. W. V. Johnson," Confederate Veteran, vol. XXII (July 1914), 329.

Find A Grave, "Maj. Willa Viley Johnson (1837-1913)," Memorial #84679458, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84679458/willa-viley-johnson (accessed January 2 2018).

Citation

Johnson, Willa Viley. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202199 (November 12, 2026).

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