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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-0001-003-0060 BR5-98 to BR5-99

Stanford, Lincoln 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. Thomas W. Varnon (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) N00012672 1816-01-08 1890-12-24 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Varnon and Sarah Varnon. Married to Eliza Jane Curl Varnon in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on February 21, 1844. Father of Mary E. Varnon, Wallace Varnon, and Sallie Varnon. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County in 1850, 1863, and 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 302A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 14 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 29. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 251. Armstrong, J.M., & Company, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead And Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, Ohio: J. M. Armstrong & company, 1878), 267-68. "Hon. Thomas W. Varnon Dies Suddenly and Painlessly on the Night of the 24th,"Interior Journal(Stanford, KY), December 30, 1890, p. 1. Find A Grave, "Thomas W. Varnon (1816-1890)," Memorial #107460274, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107460274 (accessed May 16, 2020). James H. Bridgewater (Lincoln County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier) N001788 1835 1867-07-18 Categories: People

Lincoln County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Susan Dawes Bridgewater in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1854. Father of Volney A. Bridgewater and Sarah H. Bridgewater. Laborer in Lincoln County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as 2nd lieutenant from October 8, 1861, to January 7, 1862. Served in the Secret Service of the Kentucky State Guard as a captain from late 1862 to June 1, 1864. Served in the Hall's Gap Battalion (U.S.A.) as captain and major from June 1, 1864, to July 27, 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 168. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994045, Lincoln County Births, 1855, p. 3. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lincoln County Marriages, Film #001904131. Find A Grave, "Maj James H. Bridgewater (1835-1867)," Memorial # 82283058, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82283058 (accessed May 25, 2018). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 610-11. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 792-793, 910, 958. Stanford, Kentucky P00008733 Categories: Places

Seat of Lincoln County, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Stanford" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 846. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 281. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 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). Big Creek Gap P00009385 Categories: Places

Also known as LaFollette, Tennessee. This is the location for the Battle of Big Creek.

36.3909, 84.1277 The Rogersville Review "Battle of Big Creek Civil War marker placed at historic Amis Mill site" 2017, http://www.therogersvillereview.com/rogersville/article_95afe0cf-b03f-5dc7-8b5b-6825944cab66.html. (Accessed September 24, 2018) Burkesville, Kentucky P00000547 Categories: Places

Seat of Cumberland County. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.7903, -85.3705 “Burkesville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 143. “Burkesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 25, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Bridgewater's Company of Scouts (U.S.A) O00018430 1862? 1864-06-01 Categories: Organizations

Bridgewater's Company of Scouts (U.S.A) was raised as an independent company in late 1862 and was attached to the Kentucky secret service. It mustered into state service as company "A" of the Hall's Gap Battalion (U.S.A.) on June 1, 1864.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 792-793. KYR-0001-003-0060. Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky 1864-01-05 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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Stanford Ky. Jan 5th 1864 Gov Bramlett Sir

I send you By Mr Varnon the pay Roll of our Company -- the Reason why we wish to Draw two months ^pay^ at this time is Several of the Boys want to procure Better Horses= we have Scouted the whole country extending from Big Creek Gapp to Burksville -- and our Horses are much faded -- as far as I am concerned my fine Horse is past going at all= and I am compeled to purchase a Horse to make the next trip -- The country is very Rough all quiet I will write more fully in a shortshort time -- I have got a plan of my own which will be attempted in a few days if successful that will give you great satisfaction

yours fraternally= Have -- patience Capt J. H. Bridgewater

P,, S, I will keep the original Roll and send you a true Coppy.

C., J. H. B