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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0108 Folder 4

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) N00008172 1815-04-25 1875-08-08 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Daughter of Willa Viley and Lydia Smith Viley. Married to George Washington Johnson. Mother of 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. Resident in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Willa J. Viley (Scott County, Kentucky, planter) Social: James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 993. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 31-32. Find A Grave, "Ann Eliza (Viley) Johnson (1815-1875) (1815-1875)," Memorial #98984670, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984670/ann-eliza-johnson (accessed January 3, 2018). Eliza Woolfolk Johnson Johnston (Daughter of George Washington Johnson) N00008173 1834-07-15 1901-11-26 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Daughter of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley Johnson. Married to Josiah Stoddard Johnston. Mother of George Washington Johnston. Household owned four enslaved persons in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 27. Find A Grave, "Eliza Woolfolk Johnson Johnston (1834-1901)," Memorial #96388761, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96388761/eliza-woolfolk-johnston (accessed January 3, 2018). 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. 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. Richmond, Virginia P00008174 Categories: Places

Capital of Virginia. Capital of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.

37.5407, -77.436 DeCredico, Mary and Jaime Amanda Martinez, "Richmond during the Civil War," in Encyclopedia Virginia, https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/RichmondDuringtheCivilWar#start_entry (accessed 8 Aug 2017). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1861-07-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville Ky JunJuly, 8, 1861. My Dear Ann

I have been run nearly to death since I got here, and have time now only to write you a few lines -- I think for several reasons for my sons, myself and our cause that I had better go on with them to Richmond, from which I can return in a very short time. Rest assured I shall be in no danger what ever --

My Dear Anne, I hope you will improve the time of my absence, to renovate yourself, by cheerful excrcis -- and enjoyment with your Friends -- Stay a great deal with Eliza. Now ^must^ my remind my little boys of me daily, and may God aAlmighty, bless and preserve you

Yours affectionate Husband.

George W Johnson

I will arrange to write you from Richmond