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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-0001-003-0085 BR5-140 to BR5-141

Smithland, Livingston 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. Peter Horace Conant (farmer, Livingston County) N00005997 1809? Categories: People

Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer and judge. Massachusetts native. Son of Joseph Conant and Patience Sawyer Conant. Married to Mary Ann Bowers Conant in Leominster County, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1832. Father of Horace Conant, George H. Conant, John H, Conant, Abby M. Conant, Peter A. Conant, Charles W. Conant, and Edward T. Conant. Tannery proprietor in Livingston County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Livingston County in 1860. Election judge for Precinct No. 1 with Jesse Thompson.

Relationships Legal: Livingston Circuit Court Political: Milton H. Carson (physician, Livingston County) Political: William Canada (Livingston County, KY, farmer) Political: Chesley Haynes (town marshall, Smithland, Kentucky) Political: Isaac Trimble Handlin (Livingston County, Kentucky, attorney and judge.) Political: David B. Sanders (Livingston County, Kentucky, physician.) Political: Newton Harvey Bigham (lawyer, Livingston County) Social: Volney Baker (McLean County, Kentucky, farmer and Captain (U.S.A.))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston County, Smithland, p. 384A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Livingston, Division 3, p. 149. KYR-0001-005-0032. Massachusetts, US., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records, Holbrook, MA, Leominster County Marriages, 1620-1988, p. 185. Frederick Odell, A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America: Thirteen Generations, 1520-1887: Containing also some Genealogical Notes on the Connet, Connett, and Connit Families (Portland, Maine: Harris & Williams, 1887) 189. Volney Baker (McLean County, Kentucky, farmer and Captain (U.S.A.)) N00011758 1839? 1877-01-22 Categories: People

McLean County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of David Baker and Mahala Baker. Resident in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in McLean County in 1860. Served in 35th Regiment Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 2, 1863 to December 29, 1864.

Relationships Military: Cicero Maxwell (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney and soldier) Military: Thomas Brooks Fairleigh (Brandenburg, Kentucky, attorney; capt, major, lieut col 26th KY Inf, asst adj genl, Dept of Ohio USA) Legal: Thomas Johnson (Indiana, resident and colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: John Watson Foster (Evansville, Indiana, attorney and colonel (U.S.A.))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 195B-196A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, p. 100-1. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 356. Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904, NARA RG 92, M1845. Smithland, Kentucky P00004802 Categories: Places

Seat of Livingston County, Kentucky. Located at the junction of the Ohio River and Cumberland River.

37.1389, -88.4034 H. Lee Wallace, "Smithland" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 832. USGS: Earth Explorer, " Smithland, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 23, 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). Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky 1864-04-28 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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Smithland april 28th ^1864^ Gov Bramlette Dear Sir

Enclosed Please find a coppy of several indightments against me & others for having itissaid violated the Laws of Ky in obeying Milaterry oders as Judges of the Election on the 3rd of Aug last, also please find a letter from Capt Baker& endorsed by several Miletary Gentlemen, which I hope will be favourably considered for we all thought we were doing our duty as strictly Loyal men according to our instructions

your obt Sevrt P, H, Conant