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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.
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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.
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Ohio soldier. Ohio native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852. Served in the 3rd Infantry in 1852. Instructor of tactics at West Point in the late 1850s. Colonel of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from April 1861 to September 1861. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 3, 1861. Promoted to major general of volunteers in July 1862. Command taken away after Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 and not reassigned to command troops until November 1864.
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Mason County, Kentucky, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army soldier. Kentucky native. Attended Norwich Academy in Vermont from 1837 to 1839. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1840. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Promoted to lieutenant by 1855. Ordered to recruit in Kentucky by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861, where he established Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, Kentucky, as a recruiting center. Promoted to brigadier general on September 16, 1861. Served in the 4th Division of the Army of the Ohio under General Don Carlos Buell. Promoted to major general on July 19, 1862. Commanded the Army of Kentucky. Wounded at the Battle of Richmond in Richmond, Kentucky. Shot by General Jefferson C. Davis at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky. Died on September 29, 1862.
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Quincy, Illinois, minister, chaplain, and soldier. Evansville, Indiana, native. Married to Sarah J. Jaquess. Father of Maggie W. Jaquess, Laura J. Jacquess, and William G. Jaquess. Graduated from Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, with undergraduate, A.M., and D.D. degrees. Licensed as a minister in 1847. Admitted to the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. President of Illinois Female College at Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1849. Resumed preaching in 1855. Served in the 6th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as chaplain and colonel to August 21, 1862. Served in the 73rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as colonel from August 1862 to January 1865. Special agent to President Abraham Lincoln in July 1864. Commandant of Camp Nelson and superintendent of of the Colored Refugee Home at Camp Nelson, charged with its dismantling, from August 23, 1865.
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Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician. Attended Pisgah Academy and graduated from Centre College in 1838. Attended Princeton University and studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1838. Practiced law in Lexington. Married to Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge. Father of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, Frances Breckinridge Steele, John Milton Breckinridge, John Witherspoon Breckinridge, and Mary Desha Breckinridge Maltby. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry as a major during the Mexican War. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1849. Democratic party member from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. Vice president of the United States under James Buchanan from 1856 to 1860. Ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States as a Southern Democrat in 1860. Democratic party member of the United States Senate from March 1861 to December 1861. Expelled from the Senate in December 1861. Served in the Confederate Army as a brigadier general and major general from 1861 to 1865. Secretary of war for the Confederate States of America from January 1865 to April 1865. Fled to Cuba after the war and took up residence in Europe.
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.
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Organized at Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 13, 1861. Mustered out of service on July 15, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel James S. Jackson and Colonel Eli H. Murray.
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One Tuesday afternoon at 2 Ock of the day succeeding the great Battle at this place I recognized the body of your Husband
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As soon as my duties would permit it being 9 Ock wednesday Morning I visited him at the boat to render him every assistance in my power --
I found him dead. He left many messages for
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