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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0115 Folder 4

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. Fabricius C. McCalla (Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier.) N00005219 1807-07-22 1873-04-16 Categories: People

Georgetown, Kentucky, cashier, politician, trustee, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Postmaster of Stamping Ground, Kentucky, from 1834 to 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County in 1839. Cashier at the Farmers Bank of Georgetown from 1860 to 1863. Trustee at Georgetown College in Georgetown.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Scott County, Georgetown, p. 13. The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 10, ed. J. Smith Homans (New York: J. Smith Homans, 1860), 995. The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register, vol. 13, ed. J. Smith Homans (New York: J. Smith Homans, July 1863), 29. “Fabricius C. McCalla (1807-1873),” Find A Grave, Memorial #75724530, accessed June 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75724530. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 697. 1861-09-22 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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Sept 22 1861 --

My Dear Sir -- I regret beyond measure I did not get to see you before you left- I now desire to say that if you find or think on any think I can serve you either personally or pecuniarily you will oblige me by commanding my services and I assure you they shall be promptly and honestly rendered

Your friend

F C MCalla

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F. C. McCalla Sept. 22. 1861