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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-0001-003-0037 BR5-62 to BR5-63

Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, Kentucky 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. Frederick Augustus Palmer (Essex County, New Jersey, servant and clerk.) N00018177 1839? 1885-05-28 Categories: People

Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, clerk. Essex County, New Jersey, native. Son of William S. Palmer and Harriet S. Palmer. Resident of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey in 1850. Resident of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey in 1860. Civilian clerk in the U.S. Army's Quarter Master's Department at Camp Nelson, Kentucky in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Newark/East Ward, p. 123B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Newark/Ward 4, p. 461. "The Way of the Transgressor," The Post (Camden, NJ), May 29, 1885, p. 1. KYR-0001-003-0037. 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. Theron Edmund Hall (Worcester County, MA, manufacturer, Ass't QM & superintendent of refugees in Camp Nelson) N00012748 1821-11-08 1880-08-03 Categories: People

Worcester County, Massachusetts, manufacturer and soldier. Massachusetts native. Son of Edmund Trobridge Hall and Abigail Slocomb Hall. Married to Jemima W. Mann Hall in Holden, Massachusetts, on May 8, 1844. Father of Mary E. Hall, Edmund B. Hall, and Abbie F. Hall. Manufacturer in Worcester County in 1860. Employed Ellen Marsh and Michal Morson as domestic servants in Worcester County in 1860. Served in the 21st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant adjutant in July 1861. Served in the U.S. Volunteer Quartermaster Department with the rank of captain in July 1862. Transferred to Camp Nelson, Kentucky, where he was appointed assistant quartermaster and superintendent of the large numbers of African-American refugees who traveled with enlisting African-American soldiers to Camp Nelson. Resigned his military commission on December 5, 1864, continuing his work with refugees until August 16, 1865.

Relationships Military: Camp Nelson, Kentucky Social: Frederick Augustus Palmer (Essex County, New Jersey, servant and clerk.) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Holden, p. 616. Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DARVolume 084, p. 307. Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 342. "Holden," Massachusetts Civil War Monuments, accessed May 31, 2020, https://macivilwarmonuments.com/2018/12/21/holden/. Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870, NARA RG 94, Publication M619, Roll #0106. Massachusetts Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, Holden, p. 140. Richard Sears, A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea, 1866-1904 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996). Richard Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002). "Theron E. Hall (1821-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #134225877, accessed May 31, 2020), http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134225877. 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). 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. Newark, New Jersey P00014407 Categories: Places

City in Essex County, New Jersey.

40.7357, -74.1724 "Newark, New Jersey," from Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Newark-New-Jersey (accessed May 7, 2021). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Newark, New Jersey," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 7, 2021). New Jersey P00002517 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Trenton. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

40.2171, -74.7429 John McLaughlin, Peter O. Wacker, and James Kerney, "New Jersey," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Jersey. "Trenton, New Jersey," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army O00013213 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply office for the U. S. Army. This office operated a system of field depots and a transportation network to deliver the goods to the soldiers, also responsible for burial of war dead and care of national cemeteries from 1862. Civil war-era U. S. Quartermasters General: Brigadier General Thomas Sidney Jesup (May 1818 - June 1860), Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnson (June 1860 - April 1861), Major General Montgomery C. Meigs (April 1861 - February 1882).

Relationships Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army))

"Quartermaster Corps History," U. S. Army, Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Corps, February 19, 2019, https://quartermaster.army.mil/qm_history.html (accessed August 6, 2020). "Previous Quartermaster Commandants," U. S. Army, Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Corps, February 21, 2019, https://quartermaster.army.mil/bios/previous-qm-generals/previous-qm-commadants-bios.html (accessed August 6, 2020). Camp Nelson, Kentucky O00010592 1863 1865 Categories: Organizations

Organized in 1863 near Nicholasville, Kentucky, for the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.). Measured 4,000 acres and contained quartermaster commissary depot, ordnance depot, recruitment center, prison, and hospital in 1865. Third largest U.S. Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) recruiting center in the United States. A "Home for Colored Refugees" at Camp Nelson opened in January 1865. Superintendent(s): Captain Theron E. Hall, Col. Bierbower. Commandant(s): Col. Speed S. Fry, Col Frederick H. Bierbower, Col. James F. Jaquess.

"Camp Nelson" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 158. "Camp Nelson," History and Culture, National Parks Service, accessed April 26, 2019, https://www.nps.gov/cane/learn/historyculture/index.htm. Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002). Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, Kentucky 1863-12-14 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Office Asst Qr Mr Camp Nelson Ky Decbr 14th 1863 -- Brig Genl J. T. Boyle Louisville Ky. General

I have the honor to report that the duties and cares of my office are so pressing that I find that I must have some assistance. It has occurred to me, that if one of my old and Experienced clerks could receive a commission as 1st Lieut in the line of some regiment and then be detailed and ordered to report to me for duty, it would relieve me from a very great pressure in my official, office, duties, and enable me to give other matters suitable attention.

I have a clerk, Frederick A. Palmer,

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who has been with me since August 1862, and who at that time had much Experience as a clerk in the Dept. He is a young man from Newark N. J. of high moral character and exemplary habits. He has had entire charge of my property accounts and understands thoroughly the duties of my office. I would esteem it as a great personal favor to me if you would induce Gov Bramletteto give him a Commission in some Ky, regt & allow him to remain to assist me in my office --

I am General Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servant T. E. Hall Capt & Asst Qr Mr

N. B. It will gratify me exceedingly if the above Can be brought to pass -- Will you not exert your influence in ways that you think best, in order that it may?

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Office a q m. Camp Nelson Ky Dec 14th 1863

Hall Captain T. E -- a. q. m --

Recommends that Frederick A. Palmer a Clerk of his be commissioned in some Kentucky regiment and detailed to assist him.

Recd Hd Qrs D K Decr 1st 63 Head Qrs Dist of Ky Louisville, Ky Dec 25 1863

Respectfully referred to Gov -- Thomas E. Bramlette, with recommendations, that said Palmer be commissioned as requested by Captain T. E. Hall a q. m.

J. T. Boyle Brig Genl Comdg