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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0087 Folder 3

Yazoo County, Mississippi 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. Harriett (Woman enslaved by Wm Henry Johnson, on his cotton plantation near Yazoo City, MS. Also hired out in Vicksburg, MS) N00008268 Categories: People

Enslaved by George W. Johnson and William Henry Johnson. Hired out by the Johnsons in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Relationships Slavery: William Henry Johnson (Warren County, Mississippi, planter and brother of George Washington Johnson)

KYR-0003-092-0084. KYR-0003-092-0087. William Henry Johnson (Warren County, Mississippi, planter and brother of George Washington Johnson) N00008196 1813-06-13 1872-12-28 Categories: People

Warren County, Mississippi, planter. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Payne Johnson. Married to Mary B. Johnson. Father of William H. Johnson. Married to Lucy A. Johnson. Owner of Belle Isle, a cotton plantation, in Warren County, Mississippi. Planter in Warren County in 1850 and 1860. Owned seventy-seven enslaved persons in 1850 and ninety-three in 1860. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Relationships Legal: Junius R. Ward (Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder)

"Death of a Kentuckian, *Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 3, 1873, p. 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 239A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 134. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Mississippi, Warren County, p. 257A-257B. Smith, Myron J., Jr., The Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864: Swamps, Forts and Fleets on Vicksburg's Northern Flank (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012), 91. Find A Grave, "William Henry Johnson (1813-1872)," Memorial #98878640, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98878640/william-henry-johnson (accessed January 3, 2018). New Orleans, Louisiana P00002303 Categories: Places

City in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Located on the Mississippi River.

29.9511, -90.0715 USGS: Earth Explorer, "New Orleans, Louisiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 7, 2020). Joy Juanita Jackson, "New Orleans" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Orleans-Louisiana) (accessed May 11, 2017). Louisiana P00002302 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Baton Rouge. Located on the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River.

30.4507, -91.1546 "Baton Rouge, Louisiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed on August 10, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Perry H. Howard and Robert J. Norrell, "Louisiana," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 2, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Louisiana-state. Hunter & Bruce O00004833 1855 1869 Categories: Organizations

Wholesale and retail grocer in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1855 to 1869. Partner(s): J. J. Hunter and Benjamin Gratz Bruce

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: William Henry Johnson (Warren County, Mississippi, planter and brother of George Washington Johnson)

Williams' Lexington City Directory for 1864-5 (Lexington, Ky.: Williams & Co., 1864), p. 33, 60. William Henry Perrin, ed., *History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), p. 564-65. KYR-0001-029-0556. Confederate States of America O00003030 1861-02-08 1865-05 Categories: Organizations

Governing and administrative body of the Confederate States. Capitals at Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia.

Relationships Military: Army of Mississippi (C.S.A.) Military: Department of the Mississippi Military: Department (Army) of the Potomac Military: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Military: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Political: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Military: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Military: Confederate States Army Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green

Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (New York: Harper & Row, 1979). Yazoo County, Mississippi 1860-12-30 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Belle Isle Dec 30\th 1860 Dear George

I received your letter of the 24th Inst. last night- I will not be able to meet you in New Orleans as I lost my Gin and about 70 Bales of Cotton by fire a few days since and I am now busily engaged getting out timbers for another. I will not be able to leave home in consequence until I get up a new Gin House. Fortunately I was insured for $4000 -- which will nearly cover the loss- But inconvenience is very great, as we have yet about 300 Bales to pick and Gin-

The Draft I sent Hunter & Bruce will be paid, as I have been assured by the house on which it was drawn, since its suspension- I do not doubt but it will-

A few days since I brought Harriett out here as I had not been able to get an offer for her. I do not think I could sell her now for 1/2 of her value.

You must be sure and stop with us on your return from New Orleans -- I will take no excuse from you. This State has declared for CesSessission by an overwhelming majority -- Louisiana in a few days will do the same. We will certainly have a Southern Confederacy. Your Brother W H Johnson

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W. H. Johnson Decr 30 1860

Wm H Johnson 1861