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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-0001-004-0169 BR8-273 to BR8-274

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) N00002876 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, soldier. Served in the 3rd United States Regular Calvary. Indicted for stealing in the October 1863 Term of the Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Military: 3rd United States Regular Cavalry Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

KYR-0001-004-0169. KYR-0001-004-0171. John H. Talbott (Notary in Jefferson County) N002009 1816? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, hotel owner and notary. Kentucky native. Married Ann Rice Johnson Talbott. Father of James F Talbott, Arabella Talbott, Mary L. Talbott, William F. Talbott, Ann R. Talbott, and John H. Talbott. Nelson County, Kentucky, resident in 1850. Proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Louisville in 1860. Notary Public for Jefferson County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Nelson. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 23. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Ancestry, Nelson County, 1838. Peter B. Muir (Louisville, KY, attorney and circuit judge 5th Jud Distr) N002003 1822-10-19 1911-11-03 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Son of Jasper Muir and Isabella Brown Muir. Married to Sophronia Rizer Muir. Father of Bell Muir, Thomas R. Muir, Sydney S. Muir, Upton W. Muir, Lilian Muir, Nellie Muir, and Sophronia Muir. Graduated from Hanover College in Jefferson County, Indiana. Attorney in Nelson County, Kentucky. Opened law practice in partnership with Thomas Riley in Louisville in 1852. Circuit judge of the 5th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1858 to 1864.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. 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. “Career Ended: Judge P. B. Muir Succumbs in Ninetieth Year,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 4, 1911, p. 8. "Peter B. Muir" in Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 10-11. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association Held in Louisville, KY. July 10 and 11, 1912. (Henderson, KY: Henderson Job House, ND) 40-44. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. Joseph H. Myers (Louisville, Kentucky, cabinet maker) N00001238 1826? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, cabinet maker. Native of Baden. Married to Margaret Meyers. Father of Josephine Meyers, Joseph Meyers, and Louisa Meyers. Cabinet maker in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 25. Samuel Adams Hartwell (Louisville, Kentucky, wholesale grocer) N00002879 1818? 1903-03-28 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, wholesale grocer. Massachusetts native. Married to Charlotte Hartwell. Father of E. Butler Hartwell, Richard M. Hartwell, Frank N. Hartwell, Newcomb W. Hartwell, and Charlotte Hartwell. Wholesale grocer in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 93. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007130, Louisville Deaths, 32. W. W. Owen (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00002880 1814? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Owen. Father of Giddings Owen, Martha Owen, Laura Owen, Wooten Owen, and Lizzie Owen. Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Resident of Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 270-71. KYR-0001-004-0169. Michael Billing (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and grocer) N00001239 1821? 1881-12-20 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and grocer. Native of Germany. Married to Catherine Billing. Father of Michael Billing, Jr., Catherine Billing, George Billing, Mena Billing, Louis Billing, Susan Billing, William Billing, and Lorena Billing. Shoemaker in Louisville in 1860. Operated a grocery in partnership with George Driesbach in 1861.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 6th Ward, stamped p. 279. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 1st Ward, p. 185. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 10th Ward, p. 98. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007127, Louisville Deaths, p. 190. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 34. H. Orterturn (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) N00002882 Categories: People

Signed a petition on behalf of Charles Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 30, 1863.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

KYR-0001-004-0169. Leams Hughs (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) N00002883 Categories: People

Signed a petition on behalf of Charles Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 30, 1863.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

KYR-0001-004-0169. William Winston (Louisville, Kentucky, retired police officer) N00002885 1819? 1887-12-02 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, retired police officer. Kentucky native. Married to Hm Winston. Father of James Winston, Sarah Winston, Hm E. Winston, and Erasmus Winston. Retired police officer in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 205. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007128, Louisville Deaths, p. 10. John Ashwraft (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) N00002884 Categories: People

Signed a petition on behalf of Charles Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 30, 1863.

Relationships Political: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

KYR-0001-004-0169. George Kilpatrick (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) N00002881 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Attorney in Louisville in 1863 and 1865.

Relationships Legal: Charles Smith (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), p. 385. 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. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 3rd United States Regular Cavalry O00002878 1846-05-19 Categories: Organizations

Organized on May 19, 1846.

Captain Charles Morton, "Third Regiment of Cavalry" in THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF STAFF AND LINE WITH PORTRAITS OF GENERALS-IN-CHIEF, edited by THEO[PHILUS] F[RANCIS] RODENBOUGH BVT. BRIGADIER GENERAL U.S.A. AND WILLIAM L. HASKIN MAJOR, FIRST ARTILLERY (NEW YORK MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO. 1896), p.193. 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-10-30 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": 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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To His Excellency Hon. Thos. E. Bramlette Governor ofKentucky &c.

Your Petitioner, Charles Smith, would respectfully represent that he is a young man, and never until called to answer this Indictment, under which, as the accompanying certificate of the Clerk will show, he was convicted has he been charged with the commission of any crime.

He would further state ^that^ for five years last past he has been a faithful soldier for the Government, and was seriously wounded, being shot through the lungs at the battle of Stone River, from which wound he long languished in the hospital in this city (Louisville Ky.)

He further states that he is very poor and counsel was assigned him by the Court, upon the trial of his case, he not being able to employ counsel of his own selection. He was charged with stealing some five or six dollars in Treasury notes and at the time he was destitute and influenced by intoxication.

Your Excellency will see from the accompanying certificate of the Clerk that

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the Jury, in their Verdict have recommended your Petitioner to Executive Clemency. He desires to rejoin his Regiment (the 3rd United States Regular Cavalry) and live an honest life.

Your Petitioner finally states that he has a widowed Mother dependent for her support on his earnings, that he has always remitted to her the larger portion of his income and will continue so to do as long as her and his life are spared.

He humbly prays Your Excellency to exercise your power of pardon in his case and restore him to liberty and he will ever continue to pray.

Charles ^his X mark^ Smith

Subscribed and sworn to by Charles Smith before me this thirtieth day of October 1863

Jno H Talbott Notary Publick Jefferson County

JNO. H. TALBOTT NOTARY PUBLIC. JEFFERSON CO. KY.

As the Jury have recommended Charles Smith to Executive Clemency I am induced also to ask his pardon

resplly & P. B. Muir W. G. Reasor

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We the undersigned Jurors who tried the case of theCommonwealth vs. Charles Smith join with him in his Petition to your Excellency and recommend him to Executive Clemency.

J H Meyersforeman S A. Hartwell

W. W. Owen

M. Billing

H,, Orterturn

Leams. Hughs

Wm Winston

John Ashcraft

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Petition

Geo. Kilpatrick.