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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-0001-003-0066 BR5-112

London, Laurel 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. John G. Eve (Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and Lt col & col 49th KY Inf USA) N00012935 1833-05-31 1882-08-19 Categories: People

Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Eve and Frances Eve. Attended Western Military Institute in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Knox County in 1860. Served in the 49th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 7, 1863, to December 26, 1864.

Relationships Military: James H. Tinsley (Knox County, Kentucky, sgt, lieut & adj in 3rd Ky Inf, 7th Ky Inf, 49th Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas P. Young, Jr. (Boyle County, Kentucky, 1st corp & 2nd lieut 4th KY In USA) Military: 49th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 445A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville, p. 28. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 448. "John G. Eve (1833-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #99320503, accessed June 23, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial99320503. Armsted Parrot (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer) N00018483 1776? Categories: People

Knox County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Father of Thomas Parrot. Farmer in Knox County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Knox County in 1850. Farmer in Knox County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Know County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Granville Pearl (London, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Military: 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, p. 386B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville District, p. 47. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville District. Milton Eve (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native) N00018484 1797? Categories: People

Knox County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Louisiana Eve. Father of William Eve, Fanny Eve, Clara E. Eve, James L. Eve, Richard B. Eve, Eleanor Eve, and Lavina Eve. Farmer in Knox County in 1850. Farmer in Knox County in 1860. Owned at least one enslaved person in Knox County in 1864.

Relationships Social: Granville Pearl (London, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Military: 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, p. 385A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville District, p. 176. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Barbourville District, p. X A/B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Subdivision 93, p. 425B. KYR-0001-003-0066. William McHayne (Mentioned in a letter to Governor Bramlette from Granville Pearl) N00018485 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from Granville Pearl to Governor Thomas E. Bramlette on January 19, 1864.

Relationships Social: Granville Pearl (London, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Military: 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized

KYR-0001-003-0066. Granville Pearl (London, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00002711 1817-03-19 1887-06-21 Categories: People

Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Laurel County, Kentucky, native. Married to Elizabeth Adams Pearl in 1860. Father of John Pearl, Helen Pearl, and Sallie Pearl. Admitted to the bar in 1842. Attorney in Laurel County, Kentucky, in 1850. Commonwealth’s attorney of the 12th Judicial District of Kentucky in London from 1850 to 1856. Judge of the 12th Judicial District of Kentucky in London from 1856 to 1867. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons (including Clarissa Pittman) in Laurel County in 1860. Arrested by General James S. Brisbin on November 3, 1865. Charged in the Fayette Circuit Court with violating the Congressional Act "To encourage enlistments and to promote the efficiency of the military forces of the United States," for the sale of an enslaved woman married to a soldier in the United States Colored Troops.

Relationships Political: Twelfth Judicial District of Kentucky Political: John A. Moore (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: Knox Circuit Court Economic: Twelfth Judicial District of Kentucky Political: Clay Circuit Court Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Gabriel Winter Price, Sr. (Clay County, Kentucky, court clerk.) Political: Francis Landon Cleveland (Augusta, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: William Crutcher Ireland (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Albert A. Curtis, Sr. (Irvine, Kentucky, merchant and politician) Social: John G. Eve (Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and Lt col & col 49th KY Inf USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, p. 49A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 471. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 3. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 147B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Laurel County, London, p. 46. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 304. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865),10. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1868), 354. U. S. Congress, Senate, Joint Resolution To encourage enlistments and to promote the efficiency of the military forces of the United States, S. J. Res. 82, 38th Congress, 2nd Session, https://www.congress.gov/38/llsr/S.R.82.pdf. U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878, NARA RG 105, Microfilm Series M2029, Roll #13, p. 613. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, vol. 1 (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 383. M. Secrist, Laurel County, Kentucky: History Revealed through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors (n.p., 2012), 99. "George Granville Pearl (1817-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 30091437, accessed June 14, 2016, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30091437. Robert W. McFarland (Champaign County, Ohio, teacher, professor, and soldier) N00018486 1825-06-16 1910-10-23 Categories: People

Champaign County, Ohio, teacher, professor, and soldier. Champaign County, Ohio, native. Married to Mary Ann Smart McFarland in Highland County, Ohio, on March 19, 1851. Father of Eliza McFarland and Frances "Fanny" McFarland. Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1847. Public school teacher in Ohio from 1847-1851. Professor of mathematics at Madison College in Guernsey County from 1851 to 1856. Professor and Chair of mathematics at Miami University in Butler County from 1856 to 1862. Employed Bridget Flanigan as a servant in Butler County. Served in the 86th Ohio Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from June 1862 to September 1862. Served in the 86 Ohio Regiment Reorganized (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel from July 1863 to February 1864.

Relationships Military: 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Butler County, Oxford, p. 235. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Butler County, Oxford, p. 354A. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Highland County Marriages, Film #000570613, p. 56. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Ohio, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0071. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #1254189, Certificate #1017399. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Butler County, OH, June 1863. “Dr. MacFarland Dead”,Chillicothe Gazette(Chillicothe, Ohio), October 25, 1910, p. 5. Alumni and Former Student Catalog of Miami University, 1809-1892(Oxford, Ohio: The Oxford News, 1892), p. xiv. "Robert White McFarland (1825-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #48331227, accessed August 31, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48331227. London, Kentucky P00005970 Categories: Places

Seat of Laurel County, Kentucky.

37.129, -84.0833 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 178. USGS: Earth Explorer, “London, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 2, 2020). Knox County, Kentucky P00000855 Categories: Places

County in southeastern Kentucky. Seat at Barbourville.

36.8665, -83.8888 “Barbourville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. David H. Cole, “Knox County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 524-25. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 162. Laurel County, Kentucky P00006209 Categories: Places

County in southeastern Kentucky. Seat at London.

37.129, -84.0833 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 167. “London, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2021, 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). Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. 86th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Reorganized O00018481 1863-07-17 1864-02-10 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Cleveland, Ohio. Mustered in July 17, 1863. Mustered out February 10, 1864. Commander: Colonel Wilson C. Lemert.

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Vol. III (Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1536. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, vol. 7, 1861-1866 (Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Press, 1888), 679. London, Laurel County, Kentucky 1864-01-19 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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-Quarters Provost Marshal, EIGHTH DISTRICT, KENTUCKY. London Jan 19th 1864 Gov Bramlett Dear sir

this day the 86th Ohio six month men passed through this place forcibly taking with them a Slave belonging to Col John G Eve Armsted Parrot & Milton Eve of Knox and William McHayne of Laurel and various other slaves of Knox & Laurel their time has expired and these slaves who all belonged to Loyal Union men some of them were taken by their Owners and the agints of their owners from this Regment and were retaken by this command can they not be prevented from takeing them from this State to Ohio can you cause these slaves to retained

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for the benefit of their owners and these men ^who have commited these depradations^ arrested for their misconduct

yours Respt Granville Pearl

P S they were Commanded by Leutenant Col McFarland