<title type="main">W. F. Bullock, Jr. to George W. Johnson Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 3 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0100 Folder 4

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 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. Louise Cabois Berthe Ballard (Louisville, KY, resident - Widow of slave trader Rice Carter Ballard) N00008160 1826 1896-08-23 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Natchez, Mississippi, native. Married to Rice Carter Ballard. Mother of Ellen Ballard, Ann Carter Ballard, and Chalotte Berthe Ballard. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Resident of Louisville in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Robert Boyd (London, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District No. 1, p. 7B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District No. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 3rd Ward, p. 124. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 3rd Ward, p. 6. "A Beloved Woman's Death," Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 24, 1896, p. 2. "Collection Overview," Rice C. Ballard Papers, 1822-1888, The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04850/ (accessed August 7, 2017). Find A Grave, "Louise Berthe Ballard (1826-1896)," Memorial #67121164, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67121164/louise-ballard (accessed August 7, 2017). Robert Boyd (London, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and attorney) N00008159 1833-12-11 1906 Categories: People

London, Kentucky, circuit court clerk and attorney. Whitley County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Boyd and Mary A. Sears Boyd. Attended the common school in Whitley County. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Read law with Judge Green Adams, in Barbourville, Kentucky, in 1855. Clerk of the Whitley Circuit Court from 1856 to 1862. Admitted to the bar in 1858. Relocated and practiced law in London from 1863 to 1867.

Relationships Economic: Fabricius C. McCalla (Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier.)

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-754. Find A Grave, "Judge Robert Boyd (1833-1906)," Memorial #30091404, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30091404/robert-boyd (accessed August 7, 2017). William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) N00000977 1807 1889 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund Bullock and Elizabeth Fontaine Bullock. Married to Mary Bullock. Father of John O. Bullock, William F. Bullock, Jr., Pearce Bullock, Henry P. Bullock, and Wallace Bullock. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824. Began practicing law in Louisville in 1828. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1838 to 1841. Trustee of the Kentucky School for the Blind. Appointed circuit judge of the Fifth Judicial District of Kentucky in 1846. Circuit judge in Louisville in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Bridget Flanigan as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861.

Relationships Political: Louise Cabois Berthe Ballard (Louisville, KY, resident - Widow of slave trader Rice Carter Ballard)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 350B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 865. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 254. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 2. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 753-56. "Judge William Fontaine Bullock (1807-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92046669, accessed June, 29, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92046669. KYR-0001-017-0062. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1861-05-31 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.
1

Louisville May 31/61 Geo. W. Johnson. Esq;

Georgetown, Sir:

At the request of Mrs Rice C Ballard, I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 28th inst to her.

Mrs Ballard feels unauthorized to interfere in the matter to which you allude and, believing Judge Boyd will do all that is proper in the case, she begs to refer you to him.

Geo. W. Johnson. Esq; , Georgetown Sir:

At the request of Mrs Rice C Ballard, I have to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 28th inst to her.

Mrs Ballard feels unauthorized to interfere in the matter to which you allude and, believing Judge Boyd will do all that is proper in the case, she begs to refer you to him.

Resf'y

W. F. Bullock, Jr

2

W. F. Bullock Jr May 31. 1861