Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Rebel Governor Johnson Killed

LOUISVILLE, April 13. – The steamer Minnehaha [has] arrived to-day with about 230 wounded from Pittsburgh Landing.

A wounded rebel officer reports that George W. Johnson, Provisional Governor of Kentucky, had a horse shot under him on Sunday, while acting on Breckinridge’s Staff, and was himself killed on Monday, while fighting in a company of the 4th rebel Kentucky regiment.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Tuesday, April 15, 1862 & in the in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862

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