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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-0001-004-0129 BR8-195

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky John Gilpin Barret (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and banker) N002010 1829-08-27 1890-05-14 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and banker. Greensburg, Kentucky, native. Married to Ann E. Rodes Barret. Father of Amanda Barret, Rhodes Barret, and Henrie W. Barret. Graduated from law school at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Cashier of the Louisville Branch of the Southern Bank of Kentucky from 1861 to 1865. Partner in the law firm of Pope & Barret in partnership with Hamilton Pope in Louisville in 1861.

Barret Family Collection, 1877-1926, Special Collections and Archives, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky. "Eminent Citizens Dead," Louisville Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), May 15, 1890, p. 6. "John G. Barret (1825-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #76514408, accessed October 20, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76514408/john-g-barret. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 196. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1863 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1863), 21. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. KYR-0001-019-0020. 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. Caroline Dement (Tennessee/Louisville, KY, enslaved person, contraband, cook, and domestic servant) N002001 1842? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Enslaved by John Dement in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Married to [Unknown] [Unknown], a contraband hired to work for Charles Levi in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862. Fled as a contraband to Louisville in September 1862. Cook and domestic servant in the household of Willis Levi Jr., and Anna Levi from September 1862 to February 1863. Convicted of the murder of Blanche Levi in May 1863. Pardoned by Thomas E. Bramlette on September 24, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Browns Mill township, p. 58. KYR-0001-020-0131. KYR-0001-020-0134. Blanche Levi (Louisville, Kentucky) N002006 1861-11? 1863-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, native. Daughter of Anna and Willis Levi. Died from strychnine poisoning in February 1863.

KYR-0001-004-0131. Willis Levi, Jr. (Louisville, KY, steamboat engineer) N00000995 1836-09-21 1909-12-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat engineer. Kentucky native. Son of Willis Levi. Married to Anna Stutsman Levi in Louisville on August 16, 1860. Father of Blanche Levi and Lillie Ernestine Levi. Student in Louisville in 1850. Family owned three enslaved persons in 1850. Steamboat engineer in Louisville in 1860. Family owned one enslaved person in 1860. Employed Caroline Dement as cook and domestic servant from September 1862 to February 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 437B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 4 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 664. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 61. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 11th Ward, p. 529A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000819613, p. 412. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017502: All Counties, Jefferson County Deaths File #17136, p. 642. Find A Grave, "Willis Levi, Jr (1836-1909)," Memorial #10423495, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104234952, (accessed August, 7, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0131. 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. Southern Bank of Kentucky O001005 1839-02-20 1865 Categories: Organizations

Principal office located at Russellville, Kentucky. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on February 20, 1839. Dissolved in 1865. President(s): George W. Norton. Cashier(s): M. B. Morton.

Branch office located at Carrollton, Kentucky. President(s): W. B. Winslow. Cashier(s): John A. Crawford.

Branch office located at Hickman, Kentucky. President(s): R. C. Prather. Cashier(s): Isaac Landes.

Branch office located at Louisville, Kentucky. President(s): A. A. Gordon, William B. Belknap. Cashier(s): Will Garnett, John G. Barret. Director(s): 1861—A. Rawson, John Ferguson, Jr., William Boswell, John Barret, and Warren Newcomb. 1864—G. H. Belknap, William Boswell, A. Rawson, John Long, and William B. Belknap.

Branch office located at Owensboro, Kentucky. President(s): S. M. Wing. Cashier(s): James B. Anderson.

Branch office located at Smithland, Kentucky. President(s): Thomas M. Davis. Cashier(s): Benjamin Barner.

Adelaide Rossalia Hasse, Index of Economic Material in Documents of the State of the United States: Kentucky, 1792 – 1904 (Baltimore, The Lord Baltimore Press, 1910), 100. Journal.of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: State Printing Office, 1865), 357. E. Polk Johnson, 948. J. Smith Homans, ed., The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, vol. XII (June 1860): 995. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1861 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1861), 38. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1863 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1863), 20. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner's Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Tanner's Louisville Directory, 1861), 325. J. D. Campbell, ed., J. D. Campbell's Louisville Business Directory, for 1864 (Louisville, L. A. Civill, 1864), 91. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-09-02 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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President. JOHN G. BARRET, Cashier. Office Southern Bank of Kentucky.

Louisville, Sept 2 1863.

Govr Bramlett, Esq., Dear Sir:

There was a negro woman by name of "Caroline", convicted at the last term of our Circuit Court, for the Murder of the child of Willis Levy and is Sentenced to be executed on the 11 inst- This woman is a "contraband" negro, having came to this place some 7 or 8 Months ago, she is ignorant- and unable to procure the means of proper defence, And without entering into the evidence as you will doubtlessly have it before you, I will simply say that She was convicted on the flimseyest of circumstantial evidence- And I believe is perfectly innocent- And if she could have a new trial in any way I believe She could from all I have procure such rebutting testimony, that would establish her innocence beyond doubt, It is a case that, demans your executive clemency- I dont know the woman, have never Seen her, But can say that from all I know of the case, If she is executed, she is innocent of the crime- and her execution would be wrong-

I do hope you will at least prolong her time until you can have all the facts before you I dont hesitate in saying I believe her innocent

Very Respectfully J G Barret