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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society George W. Johnson Papers KYR-0003-092-0125 Folder 6

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. James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician) N00000811 1823-09-27 1862-10-08 Categories: People

Christian County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha "Patty" Buford Jackson in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1847. Father of David Jackson, James Berryman Jackson, Etta Jackson, and Juliet Jackson. Educated at Centre College in Danville. Graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1844. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, with a law degree in 1845. Admitted to the bar in 1845. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as a private and third lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War. Attorney in Greenup County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Greenup County in 1850. Attorney in Christian County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Unionist member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the second Congressional District of Kentucky from March 4, 1861, to December 13, 1861. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 13, 1861, to August 13, 1862. Served in McCook's Corps of the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as brigadier general from July 16, 1862, to October 8, 1862. Killed at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862.

Relationships Military: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Political: Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (Muhlenberg County, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier) Political: George Helm Yeaman (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 158B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 238. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 683-84. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 271B. “Jackson, James Streshly (1823-1862),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed July 28, 2021, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000019. “James Streshly Jackson,” Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 388. "James Streshly Jackson (1823-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5894202, accessed July 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894202. Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 166: 1921, p. 99. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 63. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960. William B. Allen, A History of Kentucky, embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches... (Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert, Publishers, 1872). 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). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee P00002629 Categories: Places

Settlement in Hardin County, Tennessee. Located on the Tennessee River.

35.1523, -88.3228 James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) 405-14. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 26, 2021). Louisville Journal O001002 1830 1868 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper. Owners(s): A. J. Buxton and George W. Weissinger. Editor(s): George D. Prentice.

Betty Carolyn Congleton, "Louisville Journal" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 582-83. Newspaper 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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&#9758; We have just seen a friend of ours, a Kentucky surgeon, who was at Pittsburg Landing during the late battle. He came up on the boat that arrived here on Sunday, and says, that, of the wounded on board, sixty were rebels. He states that Geo. W. Johnston, the Provisional Governor, so-called, of Kentucky, was mortally wounded on Monday, and left on the field, like many hundred other wounded rebels, and that he died on board of one of our boats on Wednesday. Col. James S. Jackson cut a lock of hair from his head and took a letter from him for his wife. Our informant read the letter.

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