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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-0001-003-0025 BR5-43 to BR5-44

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 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. 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. 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. Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) N00000239 1830-05-16 1901-02-22 Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Owen County, Kentucky, native. Son of Harrison Mundy and Elvira Foster Mundy. Married to Margaret Offutt Mundy. Father of St. Mare Mundy. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Studied law under Professor Hoffman and T. T. Wharton. Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Colonel of the Garibaldi Legion of Philadelphia. Resigned his commission. Served in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to October 1, 1862. Detached as commander of the post of Louisville in the District of Western Kentucky of the Department of the Ohio from October 1862 to December 1863. Resigned on December 31, 1863. Attorney in Louisville.

Relationships Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Political: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Isaac Everett Sr. (Louisville, Kentucky, merchant and farmer) Political: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: J. T. Farris (Louisville, Kentucky, detective and 5th KY Cav lt & QM, 9th KY Cav maj, barracks commander USA) Political: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Political: John Chambers Brent (Bourbon County, Kentucky, bank teller, soldier, and sheriff) Political: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Political: McFerran & Menefee Political: James Calvin McFerran (Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, livery stable owner, commission merchant, and cotton factor.) Political: Samuel Stone Bush (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor) Political: Gibson Mallory (Jefferson County, Kentucky, planter) Political: James S. Wallace (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and theatre manager) Political: Sherley & Woolfolk Political: Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: John Dunlop Osborne (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and owner) Political: William R. Kinney (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician) Political: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) Military: 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Department of the Cumberland

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0361. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 180. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, ed., Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement to the Year 1896 vol.1 (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 463. Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) N00019096 1840? Categories: People

Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier. Ohio native. Married to Maggie H. Goshom Adams in Paulding County, Ohio, on September 18, 1861. Resident in Paulding County in 1850. Served in the 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) as a first lieutenant from August 26, 1861 to June 27, 1874.

Relationships 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

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Paulding County, Carryall, p. 180A. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Paulding County Marriages, Film 000317303, p. 16. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol. I. (Akron, OH: The Werner Company, 1893), 414. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Military District of Kentucky O00000273 1863-05-22 1865-01-17 Categories: Organizations

Military district in the Department of the Ohio. Commanders: Jeremiah T. Boyle (1863); Jacob Ammen (1863-1864); Stephen G. Burbridge (1864); Edward H. Hobson (1864); and Stephen G. Burbridge (1864-1865).

Relationships Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Economic: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Economic: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 132-34. Army of the Ohio O00000748 1861-12-02 1862-10-24 Categories: Organizations

This Army was created on December 2, 1861. It existed as a standalone army until it was transferred back to the Department of the Cumberland on October 24, 1862. Commander(s): Don Carlos Buell.

Relationships Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Orlando Bolivar Willcox (Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, attorney and soldier.) Military: Gustavus Murray Bascom (Franklin County, Ohio, soldier.) Military: Jacob Dolson Cox (Trumbull County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier.) Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: Ephraim Faris Hays (Pulaski County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: Edward Elmer Potter (Morris County, New Jersey, soldier.)

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 192-206. Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky O00000389 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era quartermaster generals: M. D. West, W. A. Dudley (October 3,1861-October 30, 1862), James F. Robinson, Jr. (December 2, 1862-August 31, 1863), Samuel G. Suddarth (September 1, 1863-January 13, 1866). Civil War-era assistant quartermaster generals: Henry J. Lyons (June 1861) and John E. Murrah (September 1865).

Relationships Military: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Military: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Legal: Government of the United States of America

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Works Progress Administration, Military History of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, Adjutant General of Kentucky, 1939, 169-70. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-019-0094. 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) O00019095 1861-09-05 1865-07-11 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Toledo, Ohio. Mustered into service on September 5, 1861. Mustered out of service on July 11, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel James B. Steadman and Colonel George P. Este.

Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol. I. (Akron, OH: The Werner Company, 1893), 414. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-12-01 Order 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 Military Commander, Louisville. Louisville, Ky., Dec 1 1863. Orders

J. K. Edwards U. S. Detective will proceed to Frankfort Ky without delay and report to the Governor of Kentucky, with sealed dispatches from Brig Genl Boyle Cmdg Dist Ky & 1st Division 23 A. C.

The Q. M. Department will furnish transportation.

By order of Col M Mundy C. C. Adams 1st Lieut 14 Ohio Vols & A. A. A. G