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 November 11, 2025 Filson Historical Society Kentucky Confederate Provisional Government Journal KYR-0004-033-0004 p. 13-14

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 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. Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) N00000843 1830-02-22 1903-01-22 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney, educator, and politician. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander Bruce and Amanda Bragg Bruce. Married to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Helm Bruce in Hardin County on June 12, 1856. Father of Lucinda Hardin Bruce, John Helm Bruce, and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Bruce. Educated in Manchester, Ohio. Taught two terms of school in Lewis County in 1849 and 1850. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1851. Practiced law in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party, American “Know-Nothing” Party, and Southern Rights Party. Elected as an American “Know-Nothing” Party member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Commonwealth’s attorney for the Tenth District from 1856 to 1859. Removed to Louisville, Kentucky in 1858. Formed the law partnership of Helm and Bruce with Ben Hardin Helm. Judge in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten, chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and member of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Provisional Council Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Economic: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Economic: Provisional Council Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Samuel Howard Ford (McCracken County & Louisville, KY, Baptist minister, editor, politician, provisional Congress (Confederate)) Political: Committee on Confederate Relations Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Military: Provisional Council Political: Committee on Banks Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City of Louisville, p. 283B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City of Louisville, p. 283B (p. 51 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City Louisville, p. 60A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, Film #000390788, p. 261 of microfilm. Find A Grave, "Horatio Washington Bruce (1830-1903)," Memorial 7094855, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7094855 (accessed January 18, 2017). Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 37-8. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 56-57. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 191-193. “Yields Up: Life That Was Filled With Honor, Judge H. W. Bruce Is Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 23, 1903. “Memorial Spread on the Minutes: High Tribute Paid to the Late Judge Horatio W. Bruce,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 28, 1903. John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) N00000833 1818-05-17 1874-06-20 Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, and Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician (C.S.A.). Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Married to America Smedley Crockett. Father of John W. Crockett, III, Lucy Crockett, and Americus Crockett. Married to Louisa M. Ingram Crockett in Henderson County on February 27, 1855. Father of Wyatt Ingram Crockett. Educated in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and Hancock County, Illinois. Admitted to the bar and practiced in Paducah, Kentucky, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1839. Represented the Second Congressional District of Kentucky at the Southern Rights Convention in 1861. Represented Kentucky at the Border Slave State Conference in 1861. Delegate to the provisional government convention in Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Second Congressional District from 1862 to 1864. Returned to Henderson, Kentucky, to practice law after the war.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Henry J. Lyons (Kentucky, bank officer, asst QM, prov govt commissioner) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: John J. Thomas (Christian County, KY, farmer, soldier, politician, Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division 1, p.137A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 17. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 152A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 345. Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Main Series, Ad-Hu, pp. 443-55 of microfilm. H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. ed. H. Levin (Chicago, 1897), 387-388. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 65-66. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. Find a Grave, “John Watkins Crockett (May 17, 1818-June 20, 1874),” Memorial #7092229, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092229 (accessed January 12, 2017). KYR-0004-033-0001. Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) N00000853 1821-01-08 1908-11-28 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. and Nancy Robards Thompson. Married to Martha A. Montgomery Thompson. Father of Davis M. Thompson, Philip “Little Phil” Burton Thompson, Jr., and John Burton Thompson. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Jefferson College in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced law in Mercer County, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Served in the Second Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers as a captain from 1846 to 1847 during the US-Mexico War. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Banks and Committee on Military Affairs for the provisional government of Kentucky. Received gubernatorial pardon on September 2, 1865.

Relationships Political: Joshua A. Penton (Louisville, Ky, merchant and prov govt) Political: L. H. Chilton (Christian Co, Ky, prov govt) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Council Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Political: 9th Congressional District of Kentucky Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Committee on the Judiciary Legal: Nelson Circuit Court Social: James Lawrence Marshall (Nelson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker.) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No 1, p. 247A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 686. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 583B. The Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1896): 166-68. Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0025, Kentucky, p. 641 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on January 8, 2020). Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians: Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and other Miscellany (Louisville: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1886), 156-157. “Full of Years Noted Man Dies: Col. Phil B. Thompson, Sr., Is No More,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 29, 1908. Find A Grave, "Colonel Phillip Burton Thompson, Sr (1821-1908)," Memorial 126486353, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126486353 (accessed January 25, 2017). Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) N00000846 1828-02-22 1866-12-15 Categories: People

Kentucky merchant, businessman, philanthropist, soldier, and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Stubblefield Bruce and Sabina Metcalfe Bruce. Married to Elizabeth Sarah “Sallie” Withers Bruce. Father of Mattie Withers Bruce, George Stubblefield Bruce, and Charles Albert Withers Bruce. Received a common education. Worked as a clerk at a dry goods store in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1847. Manufacturer of pig iron with his uncle, Henry Bruce, Jr., in Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1854 to 1859. Worked in the pork-packing industry in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his uncle, John S. Morgan. Owned several pork and beef packing plants along the Wabash, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, based in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Commercial merchant in St. Louis in 1860. Employed Celia Farrell and Jane Shepherd as servants in St. Louis in 1860. Source of supplies for the Confederacy in Chattanooga in 1861. Served as a staff officer for John C. Breckinridge in the Confederate State Army during the Civil War. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Served as chairman on the Committee on Banks and the Committee on Ways and Means for the provisional government of Kentucky. Elected to the First Confederate Congress in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Second Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Ninth Congressional District from 1862 to 1865. Appointed by Confederate Secretary of War James E. Seddon as acting commissary general of the Confederate States of America from January 30, 1865, to the end of the war. Moved to New York City, New York in late 1865. Supported many Confederate veterans and their families through donations and establishment of a veterans hotel in New York City.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Economic: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Legal: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Legal: James Guthrie (Kentucky U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) Political: Committee on Banks Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, 5th Ward City of St. Louis, p. 202. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 36. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 259A. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 36 Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. “Bruce, Eli Metcalf,” The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, ed. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 125. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 for Eli Metcalf Bruce, March 17, 1953. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls, p. 168 of microfilm. Bruce Family Papers, Eva G. Farris Special Collections, W. Frank Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University, https://steelyarchives.nku.edu/specialcollections/alphabeticallist/bruce.html) (accessed January 19, 2017). Find A Grave, “Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828-1866),” Memorial 10043, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10043 (accessed January 19, 2017). “Death of Eli M. Bruce,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 17, 1866. “The Late E. M. Bruce,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 25, 1866. “Confederate Financier,” Historic Marker #1638 in Kenton County, Kentucky, Historical Marker Database Search, Kentucky Historical Society, https://secure.kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=All, (accessed January 13, 2020). KYR-0004-033-0001. 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). Warren County, Kentucky P001020 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Bowling Green. Located on the Barren River.

36.9903, -86.4436 “Warren County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 932-33. "Bowling Green, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Russellville, Kentucky P00002479 Categories: Places

Seat of Logan County, Kentucky.

36.8453, -86.8872 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 259. "Russellville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Provisional Council O00011019 1861-11-18 1865 Categories: Organizations

Executive committee of the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. Consisted of ten men from ten different congressional districts: Willis B. Machen, John W. Crockett, Jr., James P. Bates, James S. Chrisman, Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Joseph B. Burnside, Horatio W. Bruce, Eli M. Bruce, James W. Moore, and George B. Hodge. President: Willis B. Machen. Clerk: A. Frank Brown.

Relationships Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj & lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA) Political: Confederate States of America Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: 9th Congressional District of Kentucky Political: The People's Bank of Kentucky Political: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Political: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: John Dabney Morris (Christian County, Ky, farmer, colonel (CSA)) Political: Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. (Franklin Co, KY, atty, judge, Provisional Congress Confederate States) Political: John Dishman (Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney.) Political: Matthew Martin Lyon (Lyon/ Caldwell cos., Kentucky, miller) Political: John J. Thomas (Christian County, KY, farmer, soldier, politician, Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: George Washington Ewing (Logan County, KY, attorney and politician. Representative (Confederate congress)) Political: Daniel Price White (Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: Gabrael J. Salter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress nominee (C.S.A)) Political: John Milton Elliott (Representative (Confederate)) Political: Samuel Howard Ford (McCracken County & Louisville, KY, Baptist minister, editor, politician, provisional Congress (Confederate)) Political: Committee on Confederate Relations Political: Committee on Common Schools Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) Political: Committee on Enrollments Political: Committee on Military Affairs Political: Committee on Ways and Means Political: John Burnam (Warren Co, KY, merchant, farmer, prov govt rep & treasurer of prov govt) Political: Committee on the Judiciary Political: Josiah Pillsbury (Warren County, KY, attorney and Confederate state auditor) Political: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Lewis W. Potter (Warren county, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Political: Robert F. Allison (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A)) Political: William Grigsby Bullitt (McCracken County, KY, prov govt conv member, attorney) Political: Committee on Banks Economic: Committee on Banks Political: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Political: James Guthrie (Kentucky U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) Political: Louisville & Nashville Railroad Political: William P. Sublett (Warren County, Kentucky, farmer and constable ) Political: Albert T. Potter (Warren County, Kentucky, constable ) Political: Commodore P. Snell (Warren County, Kentucky, constable and private 2nd KY Cav (C.S.A.)) Political: William Henry Payne (Bowling Green, KY, attorney and judge) Political: Birch Musselman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and Prov Govt financial agent) Political: A. W. Woodruff (prov gov) Political: William B. Martin (Warren County, Kentucky, clerk and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A)) Political: John Ewing Halsell (County Attorney of Warren County) Political: John G. P. Hooe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, china store owner, soldier, prov govt rep) Political: George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier) Political: Committee on Internal Improvements Political: William B. Clark (Simpson County, Ky, prov govt com rep) Political: Joseph M. Graves (Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY, schoolteacher and deputy sheriff) Political: Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Political: Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Political: James M. Mobley (Harris County, Georgia, attorney and secretary of the Georgia senate) Political: John Billups (Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, planter and president of Georgia Senate ) Political: Lafayette Carrington (Georgia, Clerk and teacher) Political: Warren Akin (Cass County, Georgia, attorney and politician (CSA)) Political: House of Representatives of the State of Georgia Political: Senate of the State of Georgia Political: Joseph Emerson Brown (Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, attorney and governor of Georgia) Political: General Assembly of Georgia Political: Confederate States Army Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: House of Representatives of the Confederate States Political: William M. Johnson (Simpson County, Kentucky, jailor ) Political: James M. Lane (Simpson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker and farmer) Political: General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Political: William J. Williams (Simpson County, Ky, farmer, judge, and prov govt com rep) Political: James W. Bradshaw (Simpson County, Kentucky, merchant and tax assessor ) Political: Samuel R. Hope (Simpson County, Kentucky, tinsmith and justice of the peace ) Political: Clement Fisher (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace ) Political: Pascal B. Dunn (Simpson County, Kentucky, Circuit County Clerk) Political: Samuel Davies Blackburn (Warren County, Kentucky, Attorney ) Political: Thomas S. Bocock (Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives) Political: Henry English Read (LaRue County, KY, congressman (CSA)) Political: Simpson County Court Political: Simpson Circuit Court Political: Warren County Court Political: Warren Circuit Court Political: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Political: Walter H. Peters (New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and bank commissioner (CSA only?)) Political: Senate of the Confederate States Political: D. M. Christian (Todd Co, Ky, farmer and prov govt) Political: Waddy W. Thompson (Hart County, KY, farmer and prov govt conv rep) Political: Charles Slaughter Morehead (Governor of Kentucky)

The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0003. Provisional Government of Kentucky O00003448 1861-11-18 1865 Categories: Organizations

Confederate provisional government of Kentucky. Formed at Russellville, Kentucky, on November 18, 1861. Recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Operated from Bowling Green, Kentucky, until February 1862. Administered by a governor and council of ten. Governor(s): George W. Johnson (1861-1862) and Richard Hawes (1862-1865). Secretary of State: Robert McKee. Treasurer: John Burnam. Auditor: Josiah Pillsbury.

Relationships Political: Confederate States of America Political: Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Joshua A. Penton (Louisville, Ky, merchant and prov govt) Political: L. H. Chilton (Christian Co, Ky, prov govt) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Council Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Economic: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Economic: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Economic: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Economic: Provisional Council Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: The People's Bank of Kentucky Political: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Political: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: James M. Lester (Lyon County, Kentucky, merchant.) Political: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson, eds., Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863). Lowell H. Harrison, "George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes: The Governors of Confederate Kentucky" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 79, no. 1 (Winter 1981): 3-39. Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0003. Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1861-11-21 Journal 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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13Journal of the Council of the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky

Be it remembered that on the twenty first day of November A. D. One Thousand Eight hundred and sixty one at the Chamber of the Honl.George W. Johnson Governor of the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky in the City ofBowling Green and county of Warren, pursuant to the provisions of a Convention by the people, begun at Russellville on Monday 18th November 1861, the Governor and Council met, for the purpose of organizing said government.

The following members having taken the oath prescribed by the Constitution appeared and took their seats in the Council

Honl. H. W. Bruce

On motion of the Honl H. W Bruce, Honl. Jno. W. Crockettwas unanimously elected President pro. tem- of the Council

On motion T. L. Burnett was appointed Clerk pro. tem.

The following resolution was offered by the Honl. Phil. B. Thompson viz: "Resolved that the proceedings of this Council shall be governed by the rules of the late House of Representatives of Kentucky."

Which was unanimously adopted.

Honl. P. B. Thompson moved the following resolution viz.

"Resolved that the Council now proceed to the election of a President."

Which was adopted.

The Council thereupon proceeded to the election of a President, which resulted in the unanimous choice of the Honl. Willis B. Machen, Honl. E. M. Bruce moved that messrs Thompson and H. W. Bruce be appointed a committee to inform His Excellency the Governor of the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky that the Council was now organized and ready to receive any communication by way of message he may think proper to make which was adopted.

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Messrs H. W Bruce and Thompson the Committee appointed to wait on the Governor reported that they had performed the duty assigned them, and was informed by His Excellency the Governor that he would in a few days communicate with they Council in writing

A special message was received from the Governor as follows viz "To the Honl. W. B. Machen President of the Council of the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky Sir

I have the honor to nominate for the Office of Treasurer of the Provisional Government of Kentucky the Honl. Thedore L. Burnett and hope that this nomination may receive your Sanction and support

Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt George W. Johnson

Bowling Green Ky Novr. 21.st 1861.

On motion of Honl. H. W. Bruce the Council went into Executive Session. On motion of Honl. P. B. Thompson the nomination by the Governor of T. L. Burnett was unanimously confirmed.

Mr Thompson moved the following resolution Towit: "Resolved that the Governor be authorized to procure for the Provisional Government the necessary buildings for the use of the Government" Which was unanimously adopted

On motion leave of absence was granted to E. M Bruce until monday morning.

An then the Council adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock.

Attest T. L. Burnett Sec'y ProTem.