Correspondence

Thomas E. Bramlette to Thomas McKinster

1864-05

Date of Creation
May 1864
Place of Creation
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department of Military Affairs
Collection
Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 3 ; 9 April - 25 May 1864
Box / Folder
421 to 422
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0002-117-0017
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32212669

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Dates
1864-05
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Citation

Thomas E. Bramlette to Thomas McKinster, 1864-05, Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 3 ; 9 April - 25 May 1864, Kentucky Department of Military Affairs. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0002-117-0017 (November 12, 2026).

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May [...] [...]4
Col. Tho. McKinster
Com'ding 68th Regt. E. M
Lawrence. County: Ky.
Colonel.

You are hereby ordered to call out your entire command to serve for the period of thirty days, and report with it for duty to the U. S. officer in command at Louisa Ky. A. state mustering officer will be there to muster in your companies and also to pay your gallant Regiment for services recently rendered under Col. Gallup.

If any of your command have enlisted for six months under the late call, you will not compel them to do service under this order, but require them to report at once to the State Agent at the rendezvous mentioned in General Order No 3 from the Adjutant Generals Office.

As the emergency is equally as great it is hoped that your men and officers will be equally as prompt
over

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[meeting] this call upon them as when their services were asked for by Col. Gallup

It being desired to present the claims growing out of this service, you to the U S for payment, you will not require the 3d Lieutenants of companies to respond to this call and be mustered in.