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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-0001-003-0006 BR5-8

La Grange, Oldham 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. Uriah W. Oldham (Oldham County, Kentucky, teacher, merchant, and soldier 9th KY Cav. (U.S.A.)) N00017319 Categories: People

Oldham County, Kentucky, teacher, merchant, and soldier. Oldham County, Kentucky native. Son of James Oldham and Martha Oldham. Married to Mary J. Conway Oldham in Carroll County, Kentucky, on Nov. 10, 1859. Father of James B. Oldham and Mary C. Oldham. Teacher in Oldham County in 1850. Merchant in Oldham County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and adjutant from August 1, 1862 to September 11, 1863.

Relationships Social: Robert Mallory (Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician) Social: Richard J. Sparks (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer and captain) Military: United States Army Military: 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division No. 2, p. 118A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 808. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Westpoint, p. 104B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #5500. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Carroll County Marriages, Film 000414689, p. 129. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 230 & 238. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934_, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application # 470812, Certificate #507333. Richard J. Sparks (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer and captain) N00009767 1832-08-07 1864-06-29 Categories: People

Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Oldham County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mildred A. Rouce Sparks in Shelby County, Kentucky, on March 2, 1858. Father of John Sparks and Emma Sparks. Farmer in Oldham County in 1860. Served in the Oldham County State Guard (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 17, 1862, to November 20, 1862.

Relationships Social: W. Thomas Cassady (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer) Economic: W. Thomas Cassady (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer) Social: Joseph R. Hampton (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer) Economic: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 70. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Simpsonville, p. 505A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film 000259275. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 856. "Capt R. J. Sparks (1832-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 72781290, accessed December 3, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72781290. Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) N00000240 1825-03-13 1903-09-13 Categories: People

Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, politician, and soldier. Oldham County native. Son of John J. Jacob and Lucy Donald Robertson Jacob. Married to Sarah Benton Jacob on January 17, 1848. Father of Richard F. Jacob and Elizabeth B. Jacob. Married to Laura Wilson Jacob on June 15, 1865. Studied law under Nathaniel Wolfe in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1846. Served in the United States Army as a captain during the U.S.-Mexican War. Farmer in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Cooper County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1859 to 1863. Farmer in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1860. Presidential elector for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 22, 1862 to August 21, 1863. Lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under Governor Thomas E. Bramlette from 1863 to 1867. Arrested in Kentucky for discouraging the enlistment of African Americans in the United States Colored Troops in November 1864. Exiled to Richmond, Virginia, from November 1864 to January 1865.

Relationships Social: James H. Cornell (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and social house owner) Familial: William R. Jacob (Jefferson County, KY, physician ) Legal: Laurel Circuit Court Military: 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Charles A. Clarke (Henry County, KY, farmer & lieut & QM in 9th KY) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Legal: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) Military: United States Army Military: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Political: Isaac N. Vertrees (McLean Co farmer) Political: John Erwin (McLean County, Kentucky, farmer and fisherman.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, District 23, p. 128B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, District No. 23, p. 542. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 913. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 29. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 249-51. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0097. Stephen G. Burbridge to Thomas E. Bramlette, November 12, 1864, The War of the Rebellion: A Complication of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 39, Part 3, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892), 760-1. Brad Asher, The Most Hated Man in Kentucky: The Lost Cause and the Legacy of Union General Stephen Burbridge (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021), 116. Thomas D. Clark, "Richard Taylor Jacob" in in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 462. John E. Kleber, “Richard Taylor Jacob,” The Encyclopedia of Louisville, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 430. Robert Mallory (Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician) N00000817 1815-11-15 1885-08-11 Categories: People

Oldham County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician. Virginia native. Married to Matlida Mallory. Father of Elizabeth Mallory, Robert Mallory, Jr., Matilda Mallory, and Fannie Mallory. Attended the University of Virginia. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1837. Attorney in New Castle, Kentucky. Farmer in Oldham County in 1850. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Farmer in Oldham County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Oldham County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865.

Relationships Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Social: Richard J. Sparks (Oldham County, Kentucky farmer and captain)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 137B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 349. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 862. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 166B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Ballardsville Precinct, p. 11A. “Mallory, Robert,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 13, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000082. Oldham County Historical Society, History & Families Oldham County, Kentucky: The First Century, 1824-1924 (Turner Publishing Company, 1996), 279-280. "Robert Mallory (1815-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15483762, accessed December 13, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15483762. La Grange, Kentucky P00002643 Categories: Places

Seat of Oldham County, Kentucky.

38.4076, 85.3788 Ron D. Bryant, "Oldham County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 694. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Oldham County, Kentucky P00002077 Categories: Places

Seat at La Grange, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.356, -85.4788 Ron D. Bryant, "Oldham County," in The Encylcopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 694. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Oldham County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 7, 2020). 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)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00002616 1862-08-22 1863-09-11 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Eminence, Kentucky. Mustered in on August 22, 1862, and mustered out on September 11, 1863. Commander(s): Colonel Richard T. Jacob.

Relationships Military: Joseph N. Luckett (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Michael Foley (Kentucky soldier and railroad worker) Military: Charles A. Clarke (Henry County, KY, farmer & lieut & QM in 9th KY) Military: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 228-251. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. La Grange, Oldham County, Kentucky 1863-10-08 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Legrange Ky Octr 8th 1863 My Dear Govenor

My friends and fellow county men Captn U Oldham and R J Sparks, wish to obtain authority to raise a Regiment in the Military force you propose to organize.

If you commission these gentlemen, I am sure they will use every exertion to recruit their Regiment and will handle it ably when raised --

Captn Oldham served in our friend Coln Jacob,s Regiment and will be endorsed by him as, in every respect competent and worthy -- Mr Sparks has frequently been employed by the Govt -- often in a military capactiy and has rendered the Union cause as efficent aid as any man in the county

He is a gentleman of fine intelligence -- as brave and loyal as any man and of great energy of character

If you will commission them I am confident they

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will render the country important service

Very Truly Your friend R Mallory