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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0120 Folder 5

Bowling Green, Warren 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). Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) N00008176 1842-08-16 1879-11-24 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Military: Alexander Keene Richards (Scott County, Kentucky, and Carroll Parish, Louisiana, planter, thoroughbred horse breeder, and livestock breeder) Military: William Nelson (U.S. Army major general) Familial: Willa J. Viley (Scott County, Kentucky, planter) Familial: Lydia Smith Viley (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Familial: Euclid L. Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Henry Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky Legal: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Legal: Northern Bank of Kentucky Familial: Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (Fayette County, Kentucky, soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, Georgetown, p. 115. Find A Grave, "Madison Conyers Johnson, Jr. (1842-1879)," Memorial #99037311, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99037311/madison-conyers-johnson (accessed January 3, 2018). John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) N00004777 1825-06-01 1864-09-04 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and soldier. Huntsville, Alabama, native. Son of Calvin Morgan and Henrietta Hunt Morgan. Married to Rebecca Bruce Morgan on November 21, 1848. Married to Martha O. Ready Morgan on December 14, 1862. Father of Johnnie Hunt Morgan. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington from 1842 to 1844. Served in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Member of the Masonic Order at Daviess Lodge #22 in Lexington from 1846 to 1864. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1850. Served in a state militia artillery company in Lexington as captain from 1852 to 1854. Served in the Lexington Rifles of the Kentucky State Guard as captain from 1857 to 1861. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. With C. C. Morgan, owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from 1861 to 1864. Killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, on September 4, 1864.

Relationships Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Buffington Island Military: Confederate States Army Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 1, p. 146B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 433. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 452B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 4, 461B. Find A Grave, "John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)," Memorial #4433, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433 (accessed September 6, 2019). James A. Ramage, “Morgan, John Hunt,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), pp. 650-651. James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986).John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 402. William Joseph Hardee (Confederate Army soldier) N00008207 1815-10-12 1873-11-06 Categories: People

Confederate Army soldier. Camden County, Georgia native. Son of John Hardee and Sarah Ellis Hardee. Married to Elizabeth Dummett Hardee on November 16, 1840. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1838. Veteran of the Second Seminole War. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Authored Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics in 1855. Commadant of the U.S. Military Academy from 1856 to 1860. Resigned from the U.S. Army, following Georgia's secession, and joined the Confederate Army. Commissioned a brigadier general on June 17, 1861 and assumed command in Arkansas. Promoted to major general on October 21, 1861. Commanded a division of the Army of Mississippi starting in March 1862. Transferred to the Army of the Tennessee in April 1862. Promoted to lieutenant general on October 10, 1862. Commanded the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida beginning in September 1864. Surrendered at Archdale, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865.

Mulloy, Clement, "William Joseph Hardee (1815-1873)", The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, (http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5771) (accessed August 12, 2017). John Warren Viley (Woodford County, Kentucky, solider) N00008208 1841? 1861-12-27 Categories: People

Woodford County, Kentucky, solider. Woodford County native. Son of Warren Viley and Catherine J. Martin Viley. Resident of Woodford County in 1850. Private in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Confederate). Died of typhoid fever at Bowling Green, Kentucky on December 27, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District No. 1, p. 442B. Hall, Charles W.L., Ph.D., Revivals to Revolvers...To Die for Commonwealth and Family! A History of the Second Regiment Kentucky Infantry, CSA, (Bloomington, IN: Trafford Publishing, 2013), 184. Find A Grave, "John Warren Viley (1841-1861)," Memorial #98984130, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984130/john-warren-viley (accessed January 16, 2018). Benjamin C. Grider (Warren County, Kentucky, resident, attorney, and soldier) N00013226 1826-04-10 1872-02-09 Categories: People

Warren County, Kentucky, resident, attorney, and soldier. Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky native. Son of Henry Grider and Rachael Grider. Married to Fanny R. Underwood Grider in Warren County on May 31, 1853. Father of Warner Grider, Loving Grider, and Buck Grider. Resident in Warren County in 1850. Attorney in Warren County in 1860. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (USA) as a Colonel from November 26, 1861 to February 7, 1863. Resigned on February 7, 1863.

Relationships Social: William Branch Clarke (Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Beverly Leonidas Clarke (Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Second District, p. 76A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 863. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 440B-441A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 35B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 790. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, p. 135 of 495 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Benjamin Covington Grider (Apr. 10, 1826-Feb. 9, 1872)," Memorial #129857305 , http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129857305 (accessed August 11, 2020). William Kline (Warren County, Kentucky, druggist) N00008211 1836? Categories: People

Warren County, Kentucky, druggist. New York native. Married to Victoria Kline. Father of William P. C. Kline. Druggist in Warren County in 1860 and 1864. Owned one enslaved person in Warren County, in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District No. 1, p. 162. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District No. 1, p. 42. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Warren County, KY, February 1864, p. 195, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Warren Viley (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer, horse breeder, and turfman) N00008212 1817-08-03 1902-01-19 Categories: People

Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer, horse breeder, and turfman. Scott County, Kentucky native. Son of Willa Viley and Lydia Smith Viley. Married to Catherine Jane Martin Viley. Father of George W. Viley, John W. Viley, Ann E. Viley, Martha J. Viley, Breckinridge Viley, and May Viley. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850. Horse breeder and turfman in Woodford County.

Relationships Familial: Catharine Jane Martin Viley (Married Warren Viley)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District No. 1, p. 442B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles Township, p. 58. "Maj. Viley. Famous Kentucky Turfman Dies at Midway, *Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1902, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Warren Viley (1817-1902)," Memorial #98984057, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984057/warren-viley (accessed January 16, 2018). Catharine Jane Martin Viley (Married Warren Viley) N00008213 1821-06-18 1886-03-29 Categories: People

Woodford County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Married to Warren Viley. Mother of George W. Viley, John W. Viley, Ann E. Viley, Martha J. Viley, Breckinridge Viley, and May Viley.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District No. 1, p. 442B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles Township, p. 58. "Maj. Viley. Famous Kentucky Turfman Dies at Midway", Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1902, p. 2. Find A Grave, "Catharine Jane Martin Viley (1821-1886)," Memorial #98984089, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98984089/catharine-jane-viley (accessed January 16, 2018). Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) N00008214 1845-09-07 1896-08-20 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Scott County native. Daughter of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. "Succumbed to Typhoid," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 21, 1896, p. 4. Find A Grave, "Martha Lydia Johnson Payne (1845-1896)," Memorial #99037338, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99037338/martha-lydia-payne (accessed January 16, 2018). Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) N00008215 1847-09-14 1919-03-16 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident and Lexington, Kentucky, cadet. Son of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860. Cadet at the Virginia Military Academy in Lexington from 1864 to 1868.

Relationships Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 452. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. Find A Grave, "Junius Ward Johnson (1847-1919)," Memorial #99037291, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99037291/junius-ward-johnson (accessed January 16, 2018). "Virginia Miliary Insitute Historical Rosters Database," (https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters/record.php?ID=3134) (accessed on January 16, 2018). Henry Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) N00008216 1853? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Scott County native. Son of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Euclid L. Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) N00008217 1856? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, resident. Scott County native. Son of George W. Johnson and Ann Viley Johnson. Resident of Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Henry Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: Junius Ward Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident and cadet) Familial: Martha Lydia Johnson (Scott County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 115. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Josiah Stoddard Johnston (Scott Co, KY, maj, asst AG of Confederal Bragg, staff of Buckner, nephew of Confederal Albert Sidney Johnston, son-in-law of KY Provi Gov GW Johnson) N00008200 1833-02-10 1913-10-04 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and attorney. New Orleans, Louisiana, native. Son of John Harris Johnston and Eliza Ellen Davidson Johnston. Married to Eliza W. Johnson Johnston on June 13, 1854. Father of George W. Johnston and Mary H. Johnston. Educated at the Latin school of S.V. Womack in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Educated at the Western Military Institute in Georgetown. Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1853. Graduated from the Law School of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1854. Cotton planter in Arkansas from 1855 to 1859. Farmer in Scott County, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1862. Owned four enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Served on the personal staff of General Braxton Bragg as major and assistant adjutant-general from 1862 to June 1863. Served on the staff of General Simon B. Buckner. Served as chief of staff for General John C. Breckinridge with the ranks of major and lieutenant colonel from December 1863 to May 1865. Relocated to Helena, Arkansas, practicing law there from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Social: John Bolivar McGinn (Versailles, Kentucky, minister) Social: Paul Rankins (Georgetown, Kentucky, physician) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: Junius R. Ward (Washington County, Mississippi, and Scott County, Kentucky, planter and livestock breeder) Social: Cadwallader Lewis (Franklin County, Kentucky, baptist minister) Familial: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Familial: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Familial: Eliza Woolfolk Johnson Johnston (Daughter of George Washington Johnson)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 175B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 969. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, p. 226A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 116A. "Death Claims Kentuckian: J. Stoddard Johnston Dies Near St. Louis," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 5, 1913, 1. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 754-56. 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). Willa Viley Johnson (Scott Co, KY farmer & soldier (CSA) Son of G W Johnson and Ann E Viley Johnson) N00008203 1837-03-04 1913-05-05 Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Scott County native. Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley Johnson. Married to Lilly Tilford Johnson in 1860. Resident of Scott County in 1850. Served in the First Kentucky Brigade (C.S.A.) as aide-de-camp to General John C. Breckinridge in April 1862. Served under General George Crosby and General Frank Armstrong until 1865. Promoted to Major in May 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 2, p. 452A. "Maj. W. V. Johnson," Confederate Veteran, vol. XXII (July 1914), 329. Find A Grave, "Maj. Willa Viley Johnson (1837-1913)," Memorial #84679458, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84679458/willa-viley-johnson (accessed January 2 2018). Lilly Tilford Johnson (Kentucky resident. Married to Willa Viley Johnson) N00008218 1842-08-27 1930-12-14 Categories: People

Kentucky resident. Lexington, Kentucky native. Married to Willa Viley Johnson on October 22, 1860. Mother of Emily M. Johnson and George W. Johnson.

Relationships Familial: Willa Viley Johnson (Scott Co, KY farmer & soldier (CSA) Son of G W Johnson and Ann E Viley Johnson)

Find A Grave, "Lilly Tilford Johnson (1842-1930)," Memorial #84679184, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84679184/lilly-johnson (accessed January 16, 2018). "The Viley Family," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 7 (1909): 107-118. Pension application of Lillie Tilford Johnson, State of Texas, Pension File # 39765, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 (accessed at ancestry.com). 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. Bowling Green, Kentucky P00000560 Categories: Places

Seat of Warren County, Kentucky. Located on the Barren River. Seat of Kentucky's provisional government from November 18, 1861, to February 1862.

36.9685, -86.4808 Ron D. Bryant, “Bowling Green,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 106-107. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bowling Green, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 21, 2019). United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1862-01-23 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Bowling Green Ky. January 23. 1862 My DearWife

I have just heard that an opportunity is offered me, of a chance to get a letter to you to let you know how we are here.

Matty came in to my room last night about 10 oclock from Morgan's Camp, to bring to Genl Hardee a paper and report of a scouting Expedition of Morgans within the very pickets of the Enemy and the burning of the rail road Depot full in their sight -- all of which was accomplished with six men ^4 men & Morgan &^ of whom I am proud to say Matty was one. They watched their chance took the house with 5 men in it and stayed till the roof fell in. He is now very well and you may be assured that I make him take every means to secure good health, although the exposure is very great iat times.

You have no doubt heard through the papers the melancholy news of the death of John Viley. He died in my room. on the 27 of December of Typhoid fever. I had not heard of his sickness till he sent me word he was in the hospital. I immediately went to see him and had him removed to my room, where he had every attention possible and the best medical treatment, but he gradually got worse and and at the expiration of 8 days after I got him

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him into my room. I had him buried in a box and Metalic coffin, in the garden of the Col Griderwho is now in the Lincoln Army. He left his house and garden here in the possession of a family by the name of Kline and I am boarding with them. I buried him here so that the place could always be identified and because I was living here. I hope Warren and Jane may be able to bear the loss. It seemed to me that I could hardly do so. I have taken care of all his letters, and clothes and took care to save for his parents some of his hair.

It is most horrible to think of the crimes and follies of this war. Who can estimate correctly the amount of sorrow, and of misery to say nothing of the loss of money, caused by those, who wantonly broke down the safe-guards of our rights and who determined to make us submit to their Will. God knows that I love my family, my friends and my home, but come what, neither death nor any other sorrow, grief or any misfortune shall move me the fixed purpose of my life. Never will I submit or compromise the question. It is with in all truth and the sober reality "Victory or death".

When I think that my and your honour my Dear Ann, call upon me for this calm determination, and think that it may for a still long time seperate me

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from you and my dear children and home I know not to think that how I have been inspired with such unshaken resolution. Never for one moment, with good or bad news before me, have I felt my mind waiver in its purpose I compelled to believe it, to be the inspiration of honour & of duty. I console myself at times with the reflection, that when I return to you it will then be the day of my compensation When I take you once more to my arms, and my children gather around, to welcome me back to my old home, I feel that God will have sufficiently rewarded me for my troubles It occurs to me every night, the images of each one of my family,Martha, Junius Henry andEuclid. God bless them.

The courier is waiting for me and I must close my letter. I will continue to write as I have done, although so many of my letters have failed to reach you. I have not received but one letter from you although I got Stoddard's letter of the 10th of December, Why did you not send me a postscript if nothing more. so that I might have been cheered with the sight of something from your hand. Give my love to Stoddard and Eliza.

Willa is on his farm & Lilly has lost her baby -- they are well

God, bless you George W Johnson