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Lamar County, Texas, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Long and Marguerite Berry Long. Resident of Clinton County, Kentucky in 1850. Resident of Lamar County, Texas in 1860. Served in the 32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from February 17, 1862 to February 15, 1865. Captured at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 19, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, from October 2, 1863 to February 15, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the Government of the United States on February 17, 1865.
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Lamar County, Texas, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Long and Margaret Berry Long. Resident of Clinton County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Lamar County, Texas in 1860. Served in the 5th Texas Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private from October 23, 1861 to unknown date. Signed a loyalty oath to the Government of the United States by February 1864.
U.S. Army brigadier general. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa Hawkins Canby. Father of Mary Paul Canby. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1839. Served as quartermaster and commissary of subsistence in the Florida war from October 1839 to 1842. Breveted as major and lieutenant colonel during the Mexican-American War. U.S. Army officer in Monterey County, California, in 1850. Employed John Hammell as a servant in Monterey County in 1850. Promoted to major of the 10th U.S. Infantry in 1855. Commanding officer at Fort Crittenden, Utah, and Fort Defiance, New Mexico, in 1860. Appointed colonel of the 19th U.S. Infantry and commanding officer of the Department of New Mexico on May 14, 1861. Served as brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers from May 31, 1862, to May 7, 1864. Promoted to major general of U.S. Volunteers and served as commander of the Military Division of West Mississippi from May 7, 1864, to May 17, 1865.
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McLean County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and government official. Washington D.C., native. Son of William Clark Orme and Jane Frances Ward Orme. Married to Nancy McCullough Dyson Orme in McLean County, Illinois, on October 27, 1853. Father of William McCullough Orme, Mary Bernadine Orme Smith, Lucy Orme Morgan, and Edwin D. Orme. Attended Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmetsburg, Frederick County, Maryland. Attorney in McLean County, Illinois, in 1860. Delegate to the Illinois State Constitutional Convention of 1862. Served in the Illinois 94th Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as colonel from August 20, 1862 to November 29, 1862. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on November 29, 1862. Commanded a Brigade in the XVII Corps of the Union Army in 1863. Served as commander of Chicago and commandant of Camp Douglas. Resigned due to medical disability on April 26, 1864. Served as a supervising agent for the United States Treasury Department at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee from circa May 1864 to November 1865.
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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.
Seat of Cook County, Illinois. Located on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.
State in the midwestern region of the United States. Capital at Springfield. Located on the Ohio River and Mississippi River.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
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