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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-003-0002 BR5-2

Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. [Unknown] Johnson () N00017320 Categories: People

Mentioned as a paymaster for the 21st Army Corps (U.S.A.) under the command of General Horatio Van Cleve in October 1863.

Relationships Military: 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

KYR-0001-003-0002. Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) N00017336 1809-11-23 1891-04-24 Categories: People

Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier. Princeton, New Jersey, native. Married to Charlotte Van Cleve. Father of Elizabeth Van Cleve, Mortimer Van Cleve, Samuel Van Cleve, Paul Van Cleve, and John Van Cleve. Attended the College of New Jersey in Princeton, New Jersey. Attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York to 1831. Served in the United Stated Army from 1831 to 1836. Farmer in Todd County, Minnesota, in 1860. Served in the 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from July 1861 to March 1862. Served in the Union Army as a brigadier general, lieutenant general, and major general of Volunteers from March 1862 to August 1865. Commander of U.S. Army forces in the Department of the Cumberland from 1862 to 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Minnestoa, Todd County, City/District, p. 78. Ezra J. Warner, General's in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 521-2. "Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (1809-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial #7442, accessed March 7, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7442. William Logan Porter (Barren County, Kentucky printer and court clerk) N00012500 1842-07-11 1937-08-17 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, printer and court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Martha E. Porter. Printer in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1860. Circuit court clerk in Barren County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Barren Circuit Court Legal: Barren Circuit Court Economic: Barren Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1 , p. 754. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 542B. "Lawyers' Dean Dies," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), August 18, 1937, p. 1. "William Logan Porter (1842-1937)," Find A Grave, Memorial #76568099, accessed April 25, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76568099. KYR-0001-004-0373. W. F. Evans (Glasgow, Kentucky) N00001570 1806? 1867? Categories: People

Glasgow, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Virginia native. Attorney in Glasgow in 1860. Judge of the Barren County Court in 1862. Judge of Barren County Court in Barren County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, District 2, p. 157. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), p. 304. Acts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed by the General Assembly at the Adjourned Session (January 3, 1867) Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the 4th Day of December, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), ch, 1282, p. 287. KYR-0001-004-0442. Glasgow, Kentucky P00000336 Categories: Places

Seat of Barren County, Kentucky.

36.9959, -85.9119 "Glasgow, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 116. Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00008567 1861-11-26 1864-12-15 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Boyle, Adair County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on November 26, 1861. Mustered out of service on December 15, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Benjamin C. Grider and Colonel George H. Cram.

Relationships Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 786, 805. United States Adjutant General’s Office, Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1255. 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00009038 1861-12-30 1865-01-23 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Ward and Camp Hobson, Kentucky. Mustered into service between December 30, 1861, and January 2, 1862. Mustered out of service at Huntsville, Morgan County, Alabama, on January 23, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Ethelburt L. Dudley, Colonel Samuel W. Price, Lieutenant Colonel Basil A. Wheat, and Lieutenant Colonel James C. Evans.

Relationships Military: Chauncey McKeever (Assistant AG USA) Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 68-96. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

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Glasgow Oct. 8th 1863 Gov. Bramlet

I have recently seen Maj. Johnson the Paymaster of Vancleaves Division, he says he will pay that division off the last week & this or the first week in next month. the 9th& 21st Ky. belong to that division, I know some in the 21st who now have money and have had for sometime which they wish to send home. Should you Conclude to send me down there, prepare the bond so that it can be executed before the Circuit Court Clerk, send me the necessary instructions &c I think it prudent that this arrangemt be kept private, Send the papers by the bearer of this under seal to me, I suppose I should have a commission, so that I may be enabled to get a pass at Nashville to pass to the Army --

Your friend W. F. Evans

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Glasgow W. F. Evans Application Agent for Soldiers recd & ansd12th Oct/63 Commissioned 26th Oct/63