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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, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0117 BR8-171 to BR8-172

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. Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) N00000330 1798-05-03 1877-12-08 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Gorin and Elizabeth Franklin Gorin. Father of Melvina M. Gorin, Franklin Gorin, Underwood Gorin. Married to Frances C. Boardman Gorin in Davidson County, Tennessee, on July 30, 1841. Father of Alice A. Gorin. Married to Deborah P. Campbell Gorin in Warren County, Kentucky, on January 23, 1852. Father of Harry C. Gorin and Anna Gorin. Admitted to the bar in January 1820. Resident in Barren County in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1830. Owned Mammoth Cave from 1838 to 1840. Resident in Barren County in 1840. Owned four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1840. Attorney in partnership with John Bell in Nashville, Tennessee. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay at Gorin and Gazlay in Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay and Jack Fry in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Economic: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Legal: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Political: James Harrison (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: John Roberts (Louisville attorney) Political: Robert Jackson Elliott (Louisville, Kentucky, city attorney and councilman) Political: Charles P. Rudd (Jefferson County Attorney) Political: William Alexander Hauser (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: Wilkins George Anderson (Jefferson County) Political: William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) Political: H. C. Lindell (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Political: Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Political: Alfred Harris (Louisville lawyer) Political: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Political: Isaac D. Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth’s attorney 7th district & attorney) Political: William W. Fry (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: George William Caruth (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Byron Bacon (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: James Guthrie Coke (Louisville Attorney) Political: Samuel Smith Nicholas (Louisville attorney) Political: Patrick Joyes (Louisville Attorney) Political: Reuben Thomas Durrett (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Samuel Russell (Louisville banker and attorney.) Political: James A. Beattie (Louisville attorney) Political: Thomas Ware Gibson (Louisville attorney. ) Political: Thomas W. Riley (ex-Mayor of Louisville) Political: James Speed Pirtle (Louisville Banker and Attorney.) Political: William Poindexter Thomasson (Indiana attorney) Political: John Graham Simrall (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Charles T. Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and French consular) Political: William Mix (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) Political: Samuel S. English (Louisville attorney) Political: Charles B. Cotton (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Political: Joseph G. Wilson (Louisville KY attorney) Political: John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman) Political: Thomas Alexander Marshall (KY Chief Justice) Political: Samuel Stone Bush (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: William C. Wood (Louisville, KY, attorney) Social: John A. M. Foree (Louisville, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) Social: James Harris (Mattoon, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: R. H. Cochrell (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: M. S. Fields (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Francis Maguire (Louisville atto.) Social: John Fry (Louisville attorney) Social: William W. Shaw (Louisville attorney) Social: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: C. K. Fairfax (Louisville & Richmond attorney) Social: Caleb Wallace Logan (Jefferson County, KY, attorney & judge) Social: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Social: Richard Hilaire Rousseau (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Samuel Ayers Atchison, Jr. (Louisville, KY, attorney/Democrat (JR).) Social: Martin Bijur (Louisville, KY, attorney & commwlth atty) Social: Frank Yocum (Jefferson Co, Ky, gardener )

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 129. Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 157. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, p. 394B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow Division 1, p. 190. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 525. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 286B. Find A Grave, "Franklin Gorin (1798-1877)," Memorial #7181990, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7181990 (accessed February 11, 2020). Tennessee Marriage Records (1780-2002), Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Davidson County Marriages, p. 75. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-1860 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1860), 102. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102. Mary Young Southard and Ernest C. Miller, eds., Who's Who in Kentucky: A Biographical Assembly of Notable Kentuckians (Louisville: The Standard Printing Co., 1936), 538. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol. III (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1912), 1673-74. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 323. KYR-0001-004-0364. John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) N00004777 1825-06-01 1864-09-04 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and soldier. Huntsville, Alabama, native. Son of Calvin Morgan and Henrietta Hunt Morgan. Married to Rebecca Bruce Morgan on November 21, 1848. Married to Martha O. Ready Morgan on December 14, 1862. Father of Johnnie Hunt Morgan. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington from 1842 to 1844. Served in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Member of the Masonic Order at Daviess Lodge #22 in Lexington from 1846 to 1864. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1850. Served in a state militia artillery company in Lexington as captain from 1852 to 1854. Served in the Lexington Rifles of the Kentucky State Guard as captain from 1857 to 1861. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. With C. C. Morgan, owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from 1861 to 1864. Killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, on September 4, 1864.

Relationships Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Buffington Island Military: Confederate States Army Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 1, p. 146B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 433. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 452B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 4, 461B. Find A Grave, "John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)," Memorial #4433, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433 (accessed September 6, 2019). James A. Ramage, “Morgan, John Hunt,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), pp. 650-651. James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986).John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 402. William C. Wood (Louisville, KY, attorney) N00000770 1831? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Francis E. Wood. Father of Mary R. Wood, John T. Wood, Carrie E. Wood, and Allice A. Wood. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861.

Relationships Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Legal: Collis Ormsby (Louisville merchant) Legal: R. H. Cochrell (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: H. C. Murrett (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: A. S. Gilmore (Pulaski) Legal: Thomas Antle (Henry Co. farmer) Legal: J. C. Sayers (Rockcastle County, KY, farmer) Legal: F. S. J. Ronald (Louisville tobacco merchant & postmaster) Legal: Robert Jackson Elliott (Louisville, Kentucky, city attorney and councilman) Legal: Thomas J. Elliott (Jefferson County, Kentucky)

Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 267. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe, p. 22. 1863-09-29 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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Sept 29th 1863. To the Governor of Kentucky. --

Mr F. Gorin will be indicted at the next term of our Criminal Court for willful shooting with intent to kill -- I was shot by him and should he be convicted I hope he will be pardoned immediately. -- I have not spoken to Mr Gorin since the difficulty but believeing he was under the influence of liquor and also under the influence of great popular excitement caused by the raid of Genl Morgan -- together with remarks made by me in responce to remarks he made to me I am satisfied he ought to be pardoned if convicted, --

W. C. Wood