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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.
Ohio soldier and commander of the Union armies. Point Pleasant, Ohio, native. Born Hiram Ulysses Grant. Son of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson. Married to Julia Boggs Dent in 1848. Father of Frederick Grant, Ulysses Grant, Ellen W. Grant, and Jessie Grant. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1843. Served in the 4th U.S. Infantry as brevet second lieutenant in 1843, promoted to first lieutenant during the Mexican-American War, assigned to Oregon Territory in 1852. Promoted to captain in 1853 and resigned in April 1854. Farmer in White Haven, Missouri, in 1855. Leather merchant in Galena, Illinois, in 1860. Employed Emily Hodkins as a house servant in Galena in 1860. Appointed colonel of the 21st Illinois Volunteers in 1861. Appointed brigadier general and commander of the District of Southeastern Missouri in August 1861. Promoted to major general of volunteers in March 1862. Appointed lieutenant general and given command of all U.S. armies in March 1864. Accepted the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier. Charleston, South Carolina, native. Son of Martin Luther Hurlbut and Lydia Bunce Hurlbut. Married to Sophronia R. Hurlbut in 1847. Father of George Hurlbut. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1845. Presidential Elector for the Whigs from Boone County in 1848. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of Illinois from 1859 to 1861. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1860. Served in U.S. Volunteers as a brigadier general from May 17, 1861 to Dec. 1862. Served in 16th Corps, Army of the Tennessee (U.S.A.) as a brigadier general from Dec. 1862 to Sept. 1862. Served in the Army of the Gulf (U.S.A.) as a major general from Sept. 1862 to June 1865. Commander of the Department of the Gulf from 1864 to 1865.
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Kentucky soldier. New York native. Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in 1833. Chief engineer in Illinois in 1850. Served in the U.S. Army as major from May 14, 1861 to May 1863. Served as assistant provost marshal for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from May 1863 to May 6, 1864. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel and brigadier general from May 6, 1864 to March 30, 1865.
Detroit, Michigan, student, upholsterer, and soldier. Michigan native. Son of M. T. Lane and Ruth F. Lane. Married to Mary Lane. Father of Florence Lane and Mary L. Lane. Graduate from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1853. Upholsterer in Detroit in 1860. Served in the 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics (U.S.A.) as a captain. Served in the Invalid Corps (U.S.A.) as captain from June 15, 1863 to January 12, 1864. Served in the 17th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) as a captain and brevet major from January 12, 1864 to April 23, 1866.
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State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.
Created in March 1863 upon passage of the Enroll Act of March 3, 1863. Responsible for the enrollment of drafted soldiers, enlistment of volunteers, arrest of deserters, compilation of statistics on recruits, and reporting of U.S. Army Casualties. Resided within the War Department of the United States Government. Led by the Provost Marshal General. Civil War-era Provost Marshal General: James Barnet Fry (1863-1866).
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U.S. Army unit organized at Wheeling, Virginia. Created by an act of Congress on July 23, 1861. Commander(s) (during the Civil War): Colonel Fitz John Porter, Colonel Oliver L. Shepherd.
Created on April 28, 1863, as the United States Invalid Corps. Name changed to the Veteran Reserve Corps on March 18, 1864. Employed physically disabled soldiers in noncombatant roles such as garrison and hospital duty, though some engaged in combat as well. Disbanded on August 28, 1866. Commander(s): General Winfield Scott Hancock (November 1864-August 1866).
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