Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

Person

Josiah Stoddard Johnston (Scott Co, KY, maj, asst AG of Confederal Bragg, staff of Buckner, nephew of Confederal Albert Sidney Johnston, son-in-law of KY Provi Gov GW Johnson)

b. 1833-02-10 d. 1913-10-04

About

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and attorney. New Orleans, Louisiana, native. Son of John Harris Johnston and Eliza Ellen Davidson Johnston. Married to Eliza W. Johnson Johnston on June 13, 1854. Father of George W. Johnston and Mary H. Johnston. Educated at the Latin school of S.V. Womack in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Educated at the Western Military Institute in Georgetown. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1853. Graduated from the Law School of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1854. Cotton planter in Arkansas from 1855 to 1859. Farmer in Scott County, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1862. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Served on the personal staff of General Braxton Bragg as major and assistant adjutant-general from 1862 to June 1863. Served on the staff of General Simon B. Buckner. Served as chief of staff for General John C. Breckinridge with the ranks of major and lieutenant colonel from December 1863 to May 1865. Relocated to Helena, Arkansas, practicing law there from 1865 to 1867.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 175B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 969.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 226A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 116A.

"Death Claims Kentuckian: J. Stoddard Johnston Dies Near St. Louis," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 5, 1913, 1.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 754-56.

Citation

Johnston, Josiah Stoddard. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206699 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (6)

Correspondence
C. Lewis to J. Stoddard Johnston
1862-04-17
Correspondence
George W. Johnson to Ann E. V. Johnson
1861-10-20
Correspondence
George W. Johnson to Ann E. V. Johnson
1862-01-23
Correspondence
George W. Johnson to Ann E. V. Johnson
1861-10-15
Correspondence
J. Stoddard Johnston to John B. McGinn
1862-04-17
Correspondence
John H. Yerby to George W. Johnson
1861-05-27

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