Kentucky National Guard: Josiah Stoddard Johnston
February 11, 2020
February 11, 2020
FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Feb. 11 -- The Kentucky National Guard issued the following news:
Following the resignation of General Frank Wolford, as Adjutant General on March 7, 1870, Kentucky Governor John W. Stevenson, immediately filled the vacancy with Josiah Stoddard Johnston, who became Kentucky's Eleventh Adjutant General when he took over the office on 8 March 1870.
J. Stoddard Johnston, Sr., lawyer, journalist, political figure and soldier was born in New Orleans . . .
Following the resignation of General Frank Wolford, as Adjutant General on March 7, 1870, Kentucky Governor John W. Stevenson, immediately filled the vacancy with Josiah Stoddard Johnston, who became Kentucky's Eleventh Adjutant General when he took over the office on 8 March 1870.
J. Stoddard Johnston, Sr., lawyer, journalist, political figure and soldier was born in New Orleans . . .