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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-0001-003-0029 BR5-51

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. James B. Keller (Kentucky resident and solider. Confederate guerrilla) N00017988 1863-10-20 Categories: People

Kentucky resident and solider. Served in the Kentucky 8th Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private from September 10, 1862 to October 4, 1862. Reported as deserted October 4, 1862. Formed a guerilla group with J. Miller with whom he murdered Major Abraham G. Wileman (U.S.A.) on October 5, 1863. Murdered in retribution by William Watkins on October 20, 1863.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0045. "Jim Kellar," _ Louisville Journal_ (Louisville, KY), October 26, 1863, p. 1. "Major Wileman's Murderers Captured,"Louisville Journal(Louisville, KY), October 20, 1863, p.1. William Watkins (Kentucky soldier, murdered Confederate guerilla James Keller) N00017992 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as a private from August 14, 1862 to September 11, 1863. Mustered out September 11, 1863. Killed Confederate guerilla James B. Keller in Montgomery County, Kentucky in October 1863.

Relationships Legal: James B. Keller (Kentucky resident and solider. Confederate guerrilla) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 238. "Major Wileman's Murderers Captured, " Louisville Journal (Louisville, KY), October 20, 1863, p.1. 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. 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. Richmond, Kentucky P00009682 Categories: Places

Seat of Madison County, Kentucky.

37.7479, -84.2947 Fred Allen Engle, “Richmond” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 771-72. "Richmond, Kentucky,"USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). 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. Exchange Bank of Barnes, White, & Co O00017996 1863? 1869? Categories: Organizations

Bank in Richmond, Kentucky. Operated c1863-c1869.

Relationships Economic: James B. Keller (Kentucky resident and solider. Confederate guerrilla)

"Decision of the Court of Appeal," Louisville Journal (Louisville, KY), May 3, 1869, p. 1. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-12-24 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-QuartersDistrict of Kentucky and FIRST DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, Louisville, Decbr 24th 1863.

The Exchange Bank of Barnes White & Co at Richmond Ky will pay to the order of Hon Thos. E. Bramlette Govr of Ky all monies deposited in said Bank, taken from the rebel Killar recently Killed by one Wm Watkins.

By order of Brig Genl Boyle A. C. Semple A. A. G