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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-0001-003-0100 BR5-166

Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama 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. George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) N00000844 1828-04-08 1892-08-01 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Married to Keturah Moss Tibbatts Hodge. Father of S. Catherine Taylor Hodge, Anna Taylor Hodge, Jane “Nan” Hodge, Mary Hodge, William Baird Hodge, Georgena Baird Hodge, and John T. Hodge. Attended the Maysville Seminary, Mason County, Kentucky. Graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1845. Served in the U.S Navy as a midshipman during U.S.-Mexican War. Resigned from the U.S. Navy in 1850. Attorney in Mason County, Kentucky in 1850. Member of the Whig Party and Southern Democratic Party. Ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party in 1852. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1859. Elector for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. Attorney in Campbell County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Served in the Confederate States Army as a private, captain, major, colonel, and brigadier general. Served as an assistant adjutant general to John C. Breckinridge. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Member of House of Representatives for the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864.

Relationships Legal: Reuben Taylor Thornton (Newport, Kentucky, resident) Military: Government of the United States of America Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Provisional Council Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 133B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 415. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, City of Newport, p. 309A. “Gen. Geo. B. Hodge, a Former Kentuckian, Found Dead Near His Florida Home,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 15, 1892. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 238, 264, 346-7, 416, 418. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 121-122. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 92. “George Baird Hodge (1828-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 8926, accessed January 18, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8926. Montgomery, Alabama P00008488 Categories: Places

Capital of Alabama. Seat of Montgomery County, Alabama. Capital of the Confederate State of American from February 1861 to May 1861.

32.3668, -86.3 Mary Ann Olglesby Neeley, "Montgomery" in Encyclopedia of Alabama, Claire Wilson and Christopher Maloney, eds., http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1833 (Accessed on march 27, 2018). Alabama P00002509 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Montgomery. Located on the Gulf of Mexico.

32.3668, -86.3 Charles Goode Gomillion and Robert J. Norrell, "Alabama," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 26, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Alabama-state. “Montgomery, Alabama," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 16, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt, Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 72. 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). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Exchange Hotel O00019139 1847? 1904-11-10 Categories: Organizations

Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama. Operated from 1847 to November 10, 1904. Owner(s): J. J. Stewart, Joseph G. Field, Sterling Lanier & Son, and Bulger, Hukill & Company.

“Demolition of the old Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama,” Alabama Department of Archives & History, accessed January 6, 2023, https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/photo/id/6178. James Frederick Sulzby, Historic Alabama Hotels and Resorts (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1960), 124-30. 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). 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. Confederate States of America O00003030 1861-02-08 1865-05 Categories: Organizations

Governing and administrative body of the Confederate States. Capitals at Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia.

Relationships Military: Army of Mississippi (C.S.A.) Military: Department of the Mississippi Military: Department (Army) of the Potomac Military: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Military: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Political: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Military: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Military: Confederate States Army Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green

Emory M. Thomas, The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865 (New York: Harper & Row, 1979). Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama 1865-05-28 Correspondence English 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 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Exchange Hotel Montgomery Ala May 28th 1865 Governor

Having been parolled as a prisoner of war some days since and learning that eventually the officers and men from Kentucky will probably be permitted to return at least to settle their business affairs by the U S Government. I respectfully request to know, whether in the event of that permission being obtained there will be any objections on the part of the State Authorities of Kentucky. I shall wait here to ascertain these points, will you permit me to trespass upon your Courtesy so far as to write me information on the Subject

I am Governor Respy Yr obt Svt Geo B Hodge Late Brig Gen C S A

Governor Bramlette Govenor of Kentucky Louisville Ky