Comments on: Dear Governor http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/03/30/dear-governor/ Notes from the Archives at The Library of Virginia Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jessica http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/03/30/dear-governor/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Jessica Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:06:53 +0000 http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/?p=2689#comment-93 Thank you for writing, Mr. Johnston — how interesting that you are descended from Robert Johnston! I submitted your question to Brent Tarter, who wrote the article, and he provided the following response:
“When researching political opinions throughout Virginia in 1860 and 1861 for the Library of Virginia’s exhibition, “Union or Secession: Virginians Decide,” we did not do extended biographical research on all of the people whose letters we quoted or exhibited, and I was not even aware then that the attorney Robert Johnston who lived in Clarksburg, Harrison County, in northwestern Virginia in 1861 was Judge Robert Johnston of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, in the 1880s, but he undoubtedly was. He was one of a good many western Virginians who moved to eastern Virginia during or after the Civil War.

Unfortunately, I do not know the location of a likeness.”

]]> By: John M. Johnston http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/03/30/dear-governor/comment-page-1/#comment-92 John M. Johnston Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:01:36 +0000 http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/?p=2689#comment-92 The Robert Johnston referenced in the entry: http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/03/30/dear-governor/#respond is my Great Grandfather. Sure would love to find an image of the man. He was a judge in Rockingham County until his death in 1885, but the courthouse burned, no image there.

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