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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-0001-004-0310 BR8-487

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) N00000975 1829? 1904-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Elias Wood and Jane Wood. Married to Mary Jane Burkart Wood in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1852. Father of William Wood, Lilly Wood, Mattie Wood, John H. Wood, Logan Wood, and Rice Wood. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Pulaski County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Attorney in Pulaski County from 1852 to 1860. Editor of the True American newspaper in Pulaski County from 1857 to 1859. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville from 1863 through 1865. Notary public in Louisville in 1863. Member of the Louisville City Council in 1865. Bookbinder in partnership with Lewis A. Civill in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Henry Vonderheide (Resident of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1863/Husband of [unknown] Vonderheider) Social: [Unknown] Schofield (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Legal: Ellen M. Thompson Sharpe Reeder (Louisville, Kentucky, fugitive from justice) Legal: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 115A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski, Somerset, District 1, p. 154. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 101, p. 61-62. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 1. "The Press Advertising," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 14 Dec 1857, p. 2. "L.A. Wood, Esq." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 28 June 1859, p. 1. "Copartnership," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 26 Sept 1860, p. 2. "Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 3 Feb 1863, p. 3. "Remains Will Be Sent to Falls City," The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY), January 19, 1904, p. 3. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 55, 267. 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), 55, 602. H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States, (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), p. 528. KYR-0001-004-0264. KYR-0001-006-0049. 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. William Schofield (Bennett) (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident) N00012252 1813? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Shoemaker in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Incarcerated in the Jefferson County Jail in 1860. Indicted for grand larceny in Louisville on October 21, 1863.

Relationships Legal: W. T. Lewis (Louisville, Kentucky, salesman) Legal: Squire Lochry (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer) Legal: James Vowles Escott (Louisville, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Frederick W. Merz (Louisville, Kentucky, iron manufacturer) Legal: D. J. Bowles (Louisville, Kentucky, grain dealer) Legal: Michael S. Gross (Louisville, Kentucky, street brake) Legal: Henry Dennis (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward J. Wilson () Legal: R. H. Wagoner (Louisville, Kentucky, juror) Legal: Richard Henry Woolfolk (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: E. J. Wilson (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Frederick Martin Baringer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, gardener) Legal: John B. Whitman (Louisville, Kentucky, real estate agent) Legal: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville/Ward 6, p. 249. "Jefferson Circuit Court," Courier-Journal(Louisville, Ky.), October 22, 1863, p. 3. [Unknown] Schofield (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) N00012324 Categories: People

Mother of William Schofield (Bennett). Mentioned in a letter from L.A. Wood to Thomas E. Bramlette in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 23, 1865.

Relationships Familial: William Schofield (Bennett) (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-004-0310. 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. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Jefferson County Jail O00001161 1778 Categories: Organizations

County jail in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Jailer(s): William K. Thomas (1860-1865), Warden(s): Henry C. Thomas (1860), Assistant jailer(s): George Winters (1860), Henry C. Thomas (1865)

Relationships Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: William Schofield (Bennett) (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 318A. George Tilden Ragsdale, The Foster School: What to do with Short-Term Prisoners, (Louisville: The Standard Printing Company, 1916), https://archive.org/details/TheFosterSchool (accessed on March 3, 2017), 11-14. KYR-0001-004-2728. 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 1865-02-23 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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L. A. WOOD ATTORNEY AT LAW, LOUISVILLE, KY.

OFFICE NO. 15 COURT PLACE.

Louisville, Ky Feby 23d 1865 His Excellency Gov. Thos. E. Bramlette

Frankfort Ky Dear Sir:

As. I. was conizant of all the facts and circumstances in the case of Wm Schofieldfrom his arrest up to his conviction, I deem it proper, to State that without going into a detailed account of the facts & circumStances, that they were wholy inSufficient in my opinion to establish his guilt. I was his counsel up until he told me that he was going to plead guilty- He Still told me that he was not guilty; but Said he had rather plead guilty and get, (as he hoped by pleading guilty he would) only one year, than to lie in Jail until the next term of the court.

I talked with his witness Some time before the trial, and if they could have been got there. I think ybeyond a doubt that there testimony would have inSured an acquittal. But they had, Some of them left the State and others of them we did not know where they were; and he Said rather than lie in jail to the next court he would plead guilty. I then refused to defend him; and did not defend him on the trial. I have no contingent fee in this case; nor am I to be benefitted a farthing by his being pardoned. But I never did believe he Stole

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the money; and I do not believe that the public weal requires that he Should be retained in Prison. And as it would So rejoice the hearts of his distressed motherand the whole family I do hope you will pardon him

Yours Truly L,, A. Wood