page_title: Valentine Mason Johnson
hierarchical_section_title: Valentine Mason Johnson
caption_attribution_description: English: Source: State Library and Archives of Florida - The Florida Memory Project Archive metadata: Leader: kmKa0c Fixed field data: kh z Fixed field data: 990921s1860 in d key: AAP-4582 Local call number: Rc01048 Title: [Drawn portrait of Col. V.M. Johnson&#160;: Tallahassee, Florida] [graphic] Publication info: Not before 1860. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint&#160;: b&amp;w&#160;; 9 x 7 in. Series Title: (Reference collection) Biographical note: Principal of West Florida Seminary, and commanded cadets who helped defend Tallahassee in the Civil War Battle of Natural Bridge.
context_page_description: Valentine Mason Johnson was a professor of mathematics and the Superintendent of the West Florida Seminary during the American Civil War. Johnson was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia and was an 1860 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Johnson died in Mountville, Virginia.
  Johnson trained students at the West Florida Seminary who fought in the Battle of Natural Bridge and defeated Union forces attempting to capture Tallahassee, Florida. As a result of the battle, Tallahassee was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River that did not fall to Union forces.
context_section_description: Valentine Mason Johnson (July 17, 1838 – October 19, 1909) was a professor of mathematics and the Superintendent of the  West Florida Seminary during the American Civil War. Johnson was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia and was an 1860 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Johnson died in Mountville, Virginia.
  Johnson trained students at the West Florida Seminary who fought in the Battle of Natural Bridge and defeated Union forces attempting to capture Tallahassee, Florida. As a result of the battle, Tallahassee was the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River that did not fall to Union forces.
caption: Valentine Mason Johnson