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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-0001-003-0072 BR5-127 to BR5-128

Paducah, McCracken 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. Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth president of the United States.) N001760 1809-02-12 1865-04-15 Categories: People

Sixteenth president of the United States. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Married to Mary Ann Todd Lincoln on November 4, 1842. Father of Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. Served in the Illinois Militia as a private and captain during the Black Hawk War in 1832. Postmaster and county surveyor of New Salem, Illinois. Practiced law with John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, and William Herndon in Illinois. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois from Sangamon County, Illinois, from 1834 to 1842. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District of the State of Illinois from 1847 to 1849. Unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois in 1858. Member of the Republican Party. Member of the National Union Party. President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Assassinated on April 14, 1865.

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Ronald C. White, Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, Inc., 2009). [Unknown] [Unknown] (Graves County, Kentucky, enslaved person.) N00018528 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, enslaved person. Enslaved by Dr. Salem P. Cope in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1864.

KYR-0001-003-0072. Salem P. Cope (Graves County, Kentucky, physician) N00018503 1826-04-13 1903-02-28 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Rebecca Cope. Father of John Cope, Milton Cope, Rebecca Cope, Salem Cope, Lizzie W. Cope, and Carrie Cope. Physician in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Social: John M. Mackenzie (Ohio, soldier.) Slavery: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved man owned by Salem P. Cope in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1864) Social: Albert Bradshaw (McCracken County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Benjamin Helm Bristow (Caldwell County, KY, col 8th KY Cav USA, state senator)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 319. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 35. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Precinct 3, p. 27A. "Salem Prather Cope (1826-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #59403197, accessed August 29, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59403197. John M. Mackenzie (Ohio, soldier.) N00018504 Categories: People

Ohio, soldier. Ohio native. Served as a captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers in the United States Army's Commissary Department from October 31, 1861 to August 31, 1865. Brevetted to major of volunteers to date from July 14, 1865.

Relationships Political: United States Congress

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #1012271. Heitman, Francis B.,Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, p. 672. Paducah, Kentucky P00001227 Categories: Places

Seat of McCracken County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and the Tennessee River.

37.0834, -88.6 John E. L. Robertson, "Paducah" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 705-706. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Paducah, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 4, 2019). 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). U. S. Commissary Department O00018512 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Commissary and Subsistence Department of the United States Army. Commissary-Generals: Brigadier General George Gibson, Brigadier General Joseph P. Taylor, and Brigadier General Amos B. Eaton.

Relationships Military: John M. Mackenzie (Ohio, soldier.)

Bvt. Brig.-Gen. John W. Barriger, “The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief, The Subsistence Department,” The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief ed. Theophilus Francis Rodenbough and William L. Haskin (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1896), 79-83. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. United States Congress O00005496 1789 Categories: Organizations

Organized in the Constitution of the United States, Congress, which consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.

Relationships Political: Lawrence Strother Trimble (Paducah congressman) Political: P. N. Smith (Jessamine County) Political: Woodson Dickerson (Nicholasville, Kentucky, druggist) Political: S. Noland (Commonwealth attorney) Political: Melvin T. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, county and circuit court clerk) Political: William R. Welch (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer, attornery, and notary public) Political: John B. Cook (Nicholasville, Kentucky, grocery keeper) Political: William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt)

United States Senate, Origins and Development, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/OriginsDevelopment.htm. United States House of Representatives, _House History Timeline, 1700-1799, http://history.house.gov/Education/Timeline/1700s/; United States Constitution, Article I. Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky 1864-02-10 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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U. S. Coms office at Paducah Ky,, February 10th 1864 To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Governer of Kentucky Dear Sir

The recruiting of negro Soldiers at this point, and more especially the manner of recruiting is very damaging to our union Cause, and is in violation of the President,s proclomation, the laws of Congress, and the laws of the State

When armed negroes are permited to go with impunity into the Dwellings of true and Loyal men use insolent language to the family and take by force the only Servent of the family in oposition to the expresed wish of that servent -- it is not very encouraging to union men

Such was the case at Dr Cape's of this City Yesterday morning and there is not a more LoyaltruePatriot than Dr Cope on the american continent

J. M. Mackenzie Capt & C S U S Army