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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-0001-003-0084 BR5-150

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 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. Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) N00005190 1823-08-04 1877-11-01 Categories: People

Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.

Relationships Legal: Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Vanderburgh Circuit Court Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: State of Indiana Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Executive Department, Indiana Military: United States War Department Military: 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt & maj 4th IN Cav USA) Political: William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state) Legal: Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer) Political: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Political: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. ) Legal: James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. ) Political: Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident) Political: William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.) Political: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Political: Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton) Political: James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney ) Legal: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant) Legal: Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.) Legal: Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice) Legal: John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.) Legal: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Legal: Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Indiana State Prison South

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899). A. James Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017). Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876). Charles Manning Walker, Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878). "Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930. "Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060. Hugh Boyle Ewing (Ohio attorney & Union General) N001812 1826-10-31 1905-06-30 Categories: People

Ohio attorney and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Thomas Ewing. Attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1844 to 1848. Attorney with his brother, Thomas Ewing, and foster brother, William Tecumsah Sherman, in St. Louis, Missouri. Attorney in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Returned to Ohio in 1858. Appointed to the staff of Ohio Governor William Dennison in May 1861. Served in the 30th Ohio Volunteer Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 1861. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on November 29, 1862. Commanded the post of Louisville, Kentucky, from February 1863. Mustered out of the service in 1866.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer)

Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series M123, Fairfield County, Hocking Township, Ohio, p. 1. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 146-47. "Ewing, Hugh Boyle," Ohio, Soldiers Grave Registration Cards, 1804-1958, page 1 of 1 on microfilm (accessed via Fold3.com). LeRoy D. Fitch (Cass County, Indiana, naval lieutenant. ) N001813 1835-10 1875-04-13 Categories: People

Cass County, Indiana, naval lieutenant. Indiana native. Son of Frederick Fitch. Married to Mary Smith Fitch. Father of Marie Lee Fitch. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1856. Served in the United States Navy as a master, lieutenant, and commander, mustered in 1856.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Cass County, Logansport, p. 199A. Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application #2428. "Telegraph News," The Evening News (Indianapolis, IN), April 14, 1875, p. 2. "Fitch, Leroy," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. II, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 472. Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the “Mayflower,” Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church Which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908) 440. Lazarus Noble (Knox County, Indiana, attorney and adjutant general. ) N00018405 1823? 1879-10-20 Categories: People

Knox County, Indiana, attorney and adjutant general. Indiana native. Son of Thomas George Noble and Sarah Jacobs Noble. Married to Catherine Judah Noble. Father of Harriet Noble and Catherine Noble. Deputy clerk in Wayne County, Indiana in 1850. Attorney in Knox County, Indiana in 1860. Employed Ann Palmer as a domestic servant in Knox County, Indiana in 1860. Served as the Adjutant General of Indiana from 1861 to 1864. Elected clerk of the Supreme Court of Indiana in 1864.

Relationships Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Center Township, p. 199A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Knox County, Vincennes City, p. 114. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Knox County, Vincennes City, p. 195B. Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Indiana State Department of Health and Vital Records, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Certificate #10805. "Union State Ticket," The Journal-Press (Lawnrenceburg, IN), June 15, 1864, p. 2. "City Items," The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN), January 31, 1865, p. 3. "Death of General Noble," The Evansville Journal (Evansville, IN), October 22, 1879, p. 4. Lucius M. Boltwood, History and Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Notes of Other Families by the Name of Noble (Hartford, CT: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1878) 758. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Indianapolis, Indiana P001820 Categories: Places

Capital of Indiana. Seat of Marion County, Indiana. Located at the confluence of the White River and Fall Creek.

39.7684, -86.158 "Indianapolis," in Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indianapolis-Indiana, (accessed April 13, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Indianapolis, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). 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). Meade County, Kentucky P001822 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Brandenburg. Located on the Ohio River.

37.999, -86.1694 “Brandenburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 7, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Meade County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 622-23. Breckinridge County, Kentucky P001810 Categories: Places

Seat at Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7982, -86.4592 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 35. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Breckinridge County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 20, 2020). Hancock County, Kentucky P001816 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hawesville. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8281, -86.7617 "Hancock County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lee A. Dew, "Hancock County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 401-02. Daviess County, Kentucky P001811 Categories: Places

County in northwestern Kentucky. Seat at Owensboro. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7742, -87.1133 Lee A. Dew, "Daviess County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 254-55. “Owensboro, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 23, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Floyd County, Indiana P00018500 Categories: Places

County in south central Indiana. Seat at New Albany. Located along the Ohio River.

38.3189, -85.9068 “Floyd County, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 29, 2022. Harrison County, Indiana P00018501 Categories: Places

County in south central Indiana. Seat at Corydon. Located long the Ohio River.

38.1951, -86.1113 “Harrison County, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 29, 2022. Crawford County, Indiana P00018403 Categories: Places

County in south central Indiana. Seat at English. Located along the Ohio River.

38.2924, -86.4517 “Crawford County, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2022. Perry County, Indiana P00018404 Categories: Places

County in south central Indiana. Seat at Tell City. Located along the Ohio River.

38.0796, -86.638 “Perry County, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2022. Spencer County, Indiana P00008585 Categories: Places

County in Indiana. Seat at Rockport.

37.9833, -87.0224 Spencer County, Indiana, Government, http://spencercounty.in.gov (accessed April 27, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Spencer County, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 24, 2019). Office of the Adjutant General of Indiana O001826 Categories: Organizations

The office of the chief military officer and advisor to the Governor of the State of Indiana. Resides in the Executive Branch of the State of Indiana. Civil War-era Adjutant Generals: Lazarus Noble (1861-1864) and William Henry Harrison Terrell (1864-1869).

"Death of General Noble," The Evansville Journal (Evansville, IN), October 22, 1879, p. 4. David Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994) 1329. Report of the Adjutant General of Indiana, vol. 1, (Indianapolis, IN: Alexander H. Conner, State Printer, 1869). Kentucky State Militia O00000916 1792 Categories: Organizations

The Kentucky State Militia consisted of two principal branches, active and enrolled. From its founding, the Commonwealth of Kentucky operated a county-based, universally enrolled militia consisting of all white males of military age. The active militia, consisting of volunteer companies, was organized in 1860 as the Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Alexander W. Nickell (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer and soldier) Military: 65th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Military: [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Military: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Thomas Hall (Washington County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Goldman H. Goodman (Anderson County, KY, physician) Military: James A. Hawkins (Anderson County, KY, paymaster ) Military: William Morrison (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: William C. Wood (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: George W. Mathews (Anderson County, Kentucky, police judge) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Richard G. Stone, “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 1864-07-02 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

STATE OF INDIANA, Adjutant General's Office, Indianapolis, July 2d, 1864 His Exc. Thos E. Bramlette Gov of Kentucky Sir,

We are experiencing serious apprehensions of danger along our Southern border from the guerilla operations in Meade Breckenridge Hancock and Davies Counties Ky, Our people are excited and have demanded that measures be devised to give them protection, In a few days we shall send Officers to Floyd Harrison Crawford Perry & Spencer Counties to look more closely into affairs and if necessary place some force on duty at prominent points on the river,,

By direction of Gov. Morton I respectfully ask your co-operation & to restore quiet if possible in the Counties enumerated on your side of the river by organizing a portion of your state Militia for active duty during the summer,

I will address a letter to Genl Ewing on the subject of which I will enclose a

copy embracing the principle grounds of complaint forwarded from that part of our state.

The restrictions placed by Lt. Fitch commanding the Gunboats on personal intercourse creates very great dissatisfaction and we fear is unwise and unnecessary. A few prominent men of well known secession sympathies seem to be favored whilst union men of less note but truer friends to our government are not in any wise favored.

The complaints came in such a shape that Gov. Morton feels constrained to send and enquire into them and he would be glad to have your co-operation.

Very respfy Your obt, servant Laz Noble Adj Gen. Ind