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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-0001-003-0045 BR5-86 to BR5-87

Washington, District of Columbia Reuben Reasor (Union County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) N00018715 1834-09-10 1927-08-11 Categories: People

Union County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Reasor and Rebecca Reasor. Married to Sarah Whitecotton Reasor in Union County, Kentucky, on July 24, 1855. Resident in Bullitt County in 1850. Farmer in Union County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private and corporal from August 20, 1862 to February 15, 1865. Captured at Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio, on July 20, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, from August 22, 1863, to February 15, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on February 16, 1865.

Relationships Military: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (U.S. Army brigadier general) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 157A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 511. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0058. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562202. U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, p. 67. "Vet of Morgan's Brigade Is Dead," The Evansville Courier (Evansville, IN), August 12, 1927, p. 5. "Reuben Reasor (1834-1927)," Find A Grave, Memorial 105576995, accessed September 30, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105576995. George H. Goodwin (Union County, Kentucky, resident and soldier.) N00018717 1836-05-22 1918-03-09 Categories: People

Union County, Kentucky, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy Ann Reaser Goodwin in Union County, Kentucky, on September 29, 1858. Farmer in Union County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private and first sergeant from August 20, 1862, to February 15, 1865. Captured at Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio on July 20, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, from August 22, 1863 to February 15, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath the U.S. government on February 16, 1865.

Relationships Military: George Harrison Whitecotton (Union County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Reuben Reasor (Union County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Military: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (U.S. Army brigadier general) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 442. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0057. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562203. "Geo. H. Goodwin (1836-1918)," Find A Grave, Memorial 14233079, accessed September 30, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14233079. George Harrison Whitecotton (Union County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) N00018716 1840-11-24 1919-11-14 Categories: People

Union County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier. Union County, Kentucky, native. Son of George W. Whitecotton and Nancy Whitecotton. Married to Victoria Ara Nunn Whitecotton in Crittenden County, Kentucky, on September 25, 1860. Father of George O. Whitecotton. Resident of Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Laborer in Union County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from August 20, 1862, to June 23, 1864. Captured at Salineville, Columbiana County, Ohio, on July 26, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois from August 22, 1863 to June 23, 1864. Escaped from Camp Douglas on June 23, 1864.

Relationships Military: Reuben Reasor (Union County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Military: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (U.S. Army brigadier general) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 486B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 510. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0059. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994032, Crittenden County Births. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 33913. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 116517577. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Crittenden County Marriages, Film 000558428. U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, p. 68. "George Harrison Whitecotton (1840-1919)," Find A Grave, Memorial 46935642, accessed September 30, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46935642. Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) N00002647 1814-12-19 1869-12-24 Categories: People

Ohio attorney, politician, and Secretary of War. Son of David Stanton and Lucy Latham Norman Stanton. Married to Mary A. Lamson Stanton in Franklin County, Ohio, on December 31, 1836. Father of Lucy Lamson Stanton and Edwin Lamson Stanton. Married to Ellen Maria Hutchison Stanton on June 25, 1850. Father of Eleanor A. Stanton, Lewis Hutchinson Stanton, and Bessie B. Stanton. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1856. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States of America from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States of America from January 1862 to May 1868.

Relationships Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John A. Brady (Washington County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon. 1st Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: United States War Department Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: United States Army Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Political: United States War Department Military: Catharinus P. Buckingham (Ohio, manufacturer and Union general) Military: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Joseph K. Pitts (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer; sergeant 16th Ky Inf (U.S.A.)) Military: 8th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Arthur Erenburgh (Allegheny County, PA, engineer, lieut. 1st Ky Ind. Battery & 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Political: United States Army Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Political: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Government of the United States of America Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Jacob Cozatt (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and miller. ) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Presley F. Hansbrough (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Capt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Paymaster Department Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville City, p. 57B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 4, p. 375. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 2, p. 270A. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Franklin County, Film 000285142, p. 163. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 74014, State 904. Walter Stahr, Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017). William L. Barney, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 301-2. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (U.S. Army brigadier general) N00013869 1817-11-09 1873-04-11 Categories: People

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.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Brutus Junius Clay (Representative) Military: Mississippi Marine Brigade Military: William Hoffman (New York, New York, soldier.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, California, Monterey County, Monterey, p. 106A. Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M617, Utah, Fort Crittenden, 1857 Jan - 1861 May, p. 84. Ezra J. Warner, Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 67-8. John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, eds., Civil War High Commands (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), 161-62. "Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (1817-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial 5888328, accessed December 21, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5888328. 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. Washington, District of Columbia P00001134 Categories: Places

Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.

38.9072, -77.0369 Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC) (accessed May 22, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, D.C.," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 8, 2019). Illinois P00004765 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern region of the United States. Capital at Springfield. Located on the Ohio River and Mississippi River.

39.8017, -89.6437 Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, ed., Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1918), p. 241, 258. Roger D. Bridges and Rodney O. Davis, Illinois: Its History and Legacy (St. Louis: River City Publishers, 1984). “Springfield, Illinois," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, 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). 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. United States War Department O00005118 1789 Categories: Organizations

Created in 1789 upon the inauguration of President George Washington. Responsible for oversight of all military departments. Led by the Secretary of War. Civil War-era secretaries of war: John B. Floyd (1857-1860), Joseph Holt (January-March 1861), Simon Cameron (March 1861-January 1862), and Edwin M. Stanton (January 1862-May 1868).

Relationships Military: William Henry Seward (New York governor, attorney and politician) Military: Boston Dillion (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Francis B. Alexander (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William A. Coffey (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William N. Owens (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Eli Houston Murray (Breckenridge County, KY, soldier) Political: William Harrison Randall, Sr. (Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney, clerk, and politician.) Political: Brutus Junius Clay (Representative) Political: Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) Political: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Kenneth W. Munden and Henry Putney Beers, The Union: A Guide to the Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962, reprinted 1986), 242-44. L. D. Ingersoll, A History of the War Department of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Francis B. Mohun, 1880). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 1, The Eastern Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Camp Douglas O00018448 1861-11? 1865 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Chicago, Illinois, in the fall of 1861. Served as a Union Army recruiting center from November 1861 until March 1862. Served as a military prison for Confederate prisoners of war from March 1862 until November 1865.

Theodore J. Karamanski, “Camp Douglas,” Encyclopedia of Chicago, accessed August 19, 2022, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/207.html. Kelly Pucci, Camp Douglas: Chicago’s Civil War Prison (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007). Washington, District of Columbia 1864-01-26 Correspondence 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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War Department Washington City, January 26th 1865. Sir:

The petition for the release of Reuben Reasor, George Goodwin and George Whitecotton, stated to be prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, has been submitted to the Secretary of War, by whom I am instructed to say that their release can not be granted, at this time, but that their cases will be held in reserve, and that they will not be sent South for exchange against their consent.

Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, Ed. R, S, Canby Brig. Genl. A. A. G.

His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette, Governor of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky.