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Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and soldier. Livingston County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Johnson and Jane Leeper Johnson. Married to Elizabeth P. Eaver Johnson in 1830. Father of James L. Johnson, Antonia Johnson, Laura H. Johnson, Eliza T. Johnson, John M. Johnson, Jr, and Betty H. Johnson. Graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine. Practiced medicine in various locations in western Kentucky from 1833 to 1856. Researched and published articles in medical journals on milk sickness from 1840 to 1845. Physician in Paducah in 1860. Served in the Confederate States Army as a surgeon and medical director from 1861 until the end of the war. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1862 until his death.
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Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive. Tennessee native. Married to Maria Terrell Gardner in 1828. Father of Ada Gardner, Laura A. Gardner, Algernon Colegate Gardner, Louisa M. Gardner, and Joseph O. Gardner. Married to Agnes H. Cowardin Gardner in 1850. Father of Almus H. Gardner, Ernest M. Gardner, Fanny B. Gardner, Percy W. Gardner, Colin Gardner, Wesley W. Gardner, and Jackey L. Gardner. Founded the West Tennesseean newspaper in Paris, Tennessee, in 1827. Opened law practice in Dresden, Tennessee, in 1829. Editor of The Jacksonian newspaper in 1838. Member of the Senate of the State of Tennessee from 1841 to 1847. Attorney in Weakley County in 1850. Established the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1852. President of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad Company in 1855. Attorney in Weakley County in 1860. Planter in Weakley County.
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Seat at Dresden, Tennessee.
State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.
Seat of McCracken County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and the Tennessee River.
Seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Located on the Mississippi River.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
City in Obion County, Tennessee. Located along the Mississippi River.
Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.
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st 1861
Dear Sir.
On my return home, from th
I regret that I was absent, and thus prevented from having a personal interview with you.
None of the public authorities of this State, either Civil or Military, so far as I know or believe, contemplate or intend to violate the neutrality of thdefensive. Whilst we sincerely sympathize with our friends in youthem, that might prove destructive to your domestic peace, and frustrate the policy of your State.
We have neither the means or desire to prevent the people of Kentucky, or any portion of them, from holding public meetings, and indicating the line of policy, which, in their judgement, will best promote their own security -- but we may decline any alliance with a fraction of her citizens, calculated to imperil her general safety, and to lead, in any possible contingincy, to her dismemberment. No policy, having a tendency to produce the one, or the other of these effects, has met with favor or countenance, with the public authorities of this State, or with myself, as a private citizen.
Should the position of neutrality assumed by Kentucky be violated, (as I apprehend it will be very soon) by the Federal authorities, and Northern troops marched upon your soil, what new line of policy, with a view to her own protection, and best to enable us to repel any invasion of our territory, the happening of this contingency, may superinduce on the part of our State, I am unable to state say. We must look to the best means of defense to our own State, and of the Confederate States, with which we are allied. These, however, are remote questions, concerning events in the future, which may, or many not transpire, and in respect to which
my individual opinions are of no consideration, whatever.
Our military encampment at
In conclusion I will state, as the sincere conviction of my mind, that your Executive need have no apprehension that either Tennessee, or the Confederate States, will be the first to violate the neutrality of your patriotic and gallant Commonwealth.
With assurances of high regard
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt. Servant