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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0085 Folder 3

George Washington Johnson (Provisional Governor of Kentucky) N001002 1811-05-27 1862-04-08 Categories: People

First governor of the provisional Confederate government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Betsy Payne Johnson. Married to Ann Viley Johnson on August 20, 1833. Father of Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, Willa Viley Johnson, Madison Conyers Johnson, Martha Lydia Johnson, Junius Ward Johnson, Warren Viley Johnson, Henry Viley Johnson, and Euclid Lane Johnson. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Practiced law in Georgetown, Kentucky. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky, and Helena, Arkansas. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1838 to 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Member of the Southern Rights Party. First provisional Confederate governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from November 20, 1861, to April 8, 1862. Served as an aide to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Served in the 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 6, 1862 to April 8, 1862. Died on April 8, 1862 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 612. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, pp. 228A-B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 168-69. Lowell H. Harrison, "Johnson, George, W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 473. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971, 255. Samuel Miller Breckenridge (Saint Louis, Missouri, attorney, politician, and judge) N00008272 1828-11-03 1891-05-28 Categories: People

Saint Louis, Missouri, attorney, politician, and judge. Baltimore, Maryland, native. Son of the Reverend John Breckenridge and Margaret Breckinridge. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and the College of New Jersey in Princeton, New Jersey. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1846. Practiced law in Lexington. Relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the state of Missouri from 1854 to 1855. Judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1859. Member of the State Convention of Missouri from 1861 to 1863.

Stewart, A.J.D., ed., The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri (St. Louis, MO: The Legal Publishing Commpany, 1898), 122, https://books.google.com/books?id=eXomAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA122&dq=judge+breckenridge+st.+louis,+missouri&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju56znmNfVAhUHWCYKHTpLB3YQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=judge%20breckenridge%20st.%20louis%2C%20missouri&f=false (accessed 14 Aug 2017). "Judge Breckinridge's Career: He was an Anti-Secessionist at the Time of the War," New York Times (New York, N.Y.), May 29, 1891. Lewis Castleman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer) N00008271 1829-10-04 1905-04-29 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of David Castleman and Virginia H. Harrison Castleman. Farmer in Jefferson County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in 1850.

Relationships Economic: Samuel Miller Breckenridge (Saint Louis, Missouri, attorney, politician, and judge)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 199B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1. Find A Grave, "Lewis Castleman (1829-1905)," Memorial #100080941, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100080941/lewis-castleman (accessed December 22, 2017). Arkansas P00002510 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Little Rock, Arkansas. Located on the Mississippi River.

34.7465, -92.2896 Boyce A. Drummond and Thomas O. Graff, "Arkansas" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Arkansas-state) (accessed on June 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Little Rock, Arkansas," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 2, 2020). St. Louis, Missouri P00003268 Categories: Places

City in east-central Missouri. Located on the Mississippi River.

38.627, -90.1994 USGS: Earth Explorer, "St. Louis, Missouri," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 4, 2020). 1860-12-15 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Arkan Decr 15th 1860 G. W. Johnson Esqr Dear Sir

I wrote you some weeks since requesting you to remit me some mony to pay for your deadening. As I have received no response I take it for granted you did not receive it. I have send to Judge Breckenridge of St Louis a check on you for $100 which you will please pay as I have already at great inconvenience advanced for you I have had deadened of your land about 280 acres & stopped. So soon as I the land I will draw on your for the ballance. If you will remit me the Amt of your taxes I will take pleasur in payng them for you.

Your friend truly Lewis Castleman

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Lewis Castleman Decr 15 1860