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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-0001-004-0146 BR8-230

Glasgow, Barren 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. W. F. Evans (Glasgow, Kentucky) N00001570 1806? 1867? Categories: People

Glasgow, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Virginia native. Attorney in Glasgow in 1860. Judge of the Barren County Court in 1862. Judge of Barren County Court in Barren County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, District 2, p. 157. 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), p. 304. Acts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed by the General Assembly at the Adjourned Session (January 3, 1867) Which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the 4th Day of December, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), ch, 1282, p. 287. KYR-0001-004-0442. Glasgow, Kentucky P00000336 Categories: Places

Seat of Barren County, Kentucky.

36.9959, -85.9119 "Glasgow, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 116. 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00009038 1861-12-30 1865-01-23 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Ward and Camp Hobson, Kentucky. Mustered into service between December 30, 1861, and January 2, 1862. Mustered out of service at Huntsville, Morgan County, Alabama, on January 23, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Ethelburt L. Dudley, Colonel Samuel W. Price, Lieutenant Colonel Basil A. Wheat, and Lieutenant Colonel James C. Evans.

Relationships Military: Chauncey McKeever (Assistant AG USA) Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 68-96. 9th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00008567 1861-11-26 1864-12-15 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Boyle, Adair County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on November 26, 1861. Mustered out of service on December 15, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Benjamin C. Grider and Colonel George H. Cram.

Relationships Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 786, 805. United States Adjutant General’s Office, Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1255. Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky 1863-10-24 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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Glasgow Oct 24th 1863 Dear sir

I herewith forward you my bond executed as directed, the bond is amply good. I wish the comssion to cover at least such of the 21st Ky vols as may want to send mony by me, many of the 9th Ky reside in ^this^ county and adjoining ones. I would accept for them, but if it suit the Gov. as well, let the Comssion be alone for the 21st -- these are dangerous times to cary mony. no news here, I do not think the Gurillas will pester this place, as it is now Garissined --

your friend W. F. Evans