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Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj & lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA)

b. 1812-07-04 d. 1906-04-07

Montgomery County, Kentucky farmer, soldier, and politician. Kentucky native. Educated in the common schools. Married to Elizabeth Peters Johnson. Father of Albert Sidney Johnson, Pattie Johnson, Annie Johnson, and Susette Johnson. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1850. Farmer in Montgomery County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Served in the Kentucky State Militia as a major general. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America in the winter of 1861 and 1862 for six weeks. Served in the 2nd Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles (C.S.A.) as major and lieutenant colonel from 1862 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1, p. 12B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, District 1. p. 37.


Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 101.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, p. 26.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 134-135.

Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 450-451.

Thomas Johnson, Pardon File, Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons (“Amnesty Papers”), 1865-67, NARA, M1003, Record Group 94, Roll 0026 (accessed January 26, 2017).

“Col. Thomas Johnson Dies at Age of Ninety-Three,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 8, 1906.

Find A Grave, "Thomas Johnson (July 4, 1812-April 17, 1906)," Memorial #84920849, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84920849 (accessed April 30, 2018).

Citation

Johnson, Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209912 (November 12, 2026).

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