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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-0001-003-0015 BR5-26

Louisville, Jefferson 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. J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") N00009324 Categories: People

Appointed Aid to Governor Thomas E. Bramlette and colonel of the Kentucky Volunteer Militia on December 17, 1863. Chief of Kentucky Police in 1864.

Relationships 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: Kentucky State Militia Military: United States Army Military: Department of Kentucky Military: Alexander Clay Semple (Louisville resident and soldier, served as assistant to General Boyle.) Legal: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Legal: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

"Arrival Extraordinary," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), August 31, 1863, p. 3. KYR-0002-060-0004. KYR-0002-222-0072. KYR-0002-222-0072. KYR-0001-007-0127. Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) N00000523 1818-05-22 1871-07-28 Categories: People

Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and businessman. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Boyle and Elizabeth Tilford Boyle. Married to Elizabeth Owsley Anderson Boyle in Garrard County, Kentucky, on October 18, 1842. Father of William Owsley Boyle, John H. J. Boyle, Clayton J. Boyle, Henry B. Boyle, Amelia Boyle, and J. Tilford Boyle, Jr. Attended Centre College in Danville. Graduated from the College of New Jersey at Princeton, New Jersey. Attended Transylvania School of Law in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Boyle County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Attorney in Boyle County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Served as a brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers from November 1861 to January 1864. President of the Louisville City Railway Company from 1864 to 1866.

Relationships Military: Albert O. Durland (Louisville businessman) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Thomas B. Lawton (farmer, McLean County) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: Patrick Sherdon (Trimble County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Political: Lucius B. Desha (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and politician) Military: Ambrose E. Burnside (Union general, Rhode Island rifleworks owner) Economic: Henry E. Shawhan (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: James A. Cook (Harrison County, Kentucky, distiller) Economic: G. W. Taylor (person ) Economic: Tarr White (person ) Economic: Thomas Jefferson Megibben (Cynthania, Kentucky, distiller.) Military: Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry) Military: 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Economic: Louisville City Railway Company Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Silas Adams (Union Lt. Col, kentucky attorney.) Military: William Mangan (Richmond, Cass County, Illinois, soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Frederick Slater, Jr. (Dearborn County, Indiana, merchant and soldier - major, 11th Ky. Cav) Military: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Military: Department of Kentucky Military: United States War Department Military: Government of the United States of America Social: Thomas Lee (Franklin County, Kentucky, tailor. ) Familial: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William Owsley (Kentucky governor, judge, and politician.) Social: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Exchange Bank of Barnes, White, & Co Military: Alexander Clay Semple (Louisville resident and soldier, served as assistant to General Boyle.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 367A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 866. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 151A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256, p. 64. Ezra J. Warner, General in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), p. 40. Ross A. Webb, “Jeremiah T. Boyle,” in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), p. 109. Alexander Clay Semple (Louisville resident and soldier, served as assistant to General Boyle.) N00009796 1835-02-24 1904-12-30 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, soldier. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native. Son of Alexander B. Semple. Married to Sarah Slaughter Semple on May, 13, 1858. Father of Hattie M. Semple, George Castleman Semple, and Lily Semple. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Served as a captain and Assistant Adjutant General of Kentucky from September 29, 1862, to March 18, 1864.

Relationships Military: Department of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 161B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville 5th Ward, p. 551B. “Erysipelas: Causes death of Alexander C. Semple,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), December 31, 1904, p. 12. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482708, p. 80. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 961. "Alexander C. Semple (1835-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #150082990, accessed December 7, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150082990. Anderson County, Kentucky P00003188 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lawrenceburg.

38.0373, -84.8966 "Anderson County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 22-23. “Lawrenceburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Department of Kentucky O00000732 1861-05-28 1866-06-05 Categories: Organizations

This department existed in two separate periods. The first was created on May 28, 1861. It was geographically defined as all Kentucky lands within 100 miles of the Ohio River. The department combined with the Department of the Cumberland on August 15, 1861. Commander(s): Robert Anderson.

The second was created on February 10, 1865. It was geographically defined as the entire state of Kentucky, until March 24, 1865, when Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana were added to the department. It was assigned to the Military Division of Tennessee on June 27, 1865. The department combined with the Department of the Cumberland on June 5, 1866. Commander(s): John M. Palmer and Edward H. Hobson.

Relationships Military: Edwin Terrell (Shelby County, KY, captain, guerrilla hunter)

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 76-77. City of Louisville O001028 1851 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky., Approved March 24, 1851, With All the Amendments to Same now In Force, and Acts of the Legislature Pertaining to the City of Louisville to this Date. December 1, 1862 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-11-30 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Head-Quarters District of Kentucky and FIRST DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, Louisville, Nov 30th 1863. Hon Thos E Bramlette Gov of Ky Sir

This will be handed you by Capt Edwards, the military detective in regard to whom, Genl Boyle spoke to you of some time since as a proper person to send into Anderson Co, to look after returned rebels and guerillas, a number of whom are in that county.

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