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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-0001-004-0372 BR9-91 to BR9-92

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. John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) N00012483 1843-01-27 1910-12-07 Categories: People

Switzerland County, Indiana, soldier. Indiana native. Son of Michael Houze and Catharine Fay Houze. Resident of Switzerland County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from November 1, 1861, to January 5, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Barren Circuit Court Military: 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment (41st Indiana Volunteer Regiment) (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Cotton, p. 101. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 5, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 287. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #974594, Certificate #816857. Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, IN, Death Certificates, 1910, Roll 11, Certificate #21, p. 1796 of 2809 of microfilm. Find A Grave, “John Wesley Houze (1843-1918)," Memorial #151039285, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151039285/john-wesley-houze, (accessed October 15, 2020). Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) N00012493 1843? 1920? Categories: People

Switzerland County, Indiana, laborer and soldier. Served in the 2nd Indiana Cavalry (U.S.A.) as a private from November 1, 1861, to October 4, 1864. Laborer in York, Indiana, in 1863.

Relationships Familial: George Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Barren Circuit Court Military: 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment (41st Indiana Volunteer Regiment) (U.S.A.) Social: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 5, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 287. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Indiana, 3rd Congressional District, Switzerland County, York Township, Vol. 2 of 3, June 1863, p. 283, p. 15 of 562 of microfilm), (Accessed via ancestry.com on October 2, 2020). U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #371020, Certificate #264733. Civil War and Later Wars Index to Remarried Widow Pension Applications, 1848-1934Certificate #264733. 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 Sampson (Barren County, Kentucky, attorney) N00010802 1818 1866 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, attorney. Pennsylvania native. Married to Virginia R. Gilpin Sampson in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on May 18, 1848. Father of Ida Sampson, Mollie Sampson and John Sampson. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in Barren County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Alanson Trigg (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Social: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Legal: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Legal: George Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, farmer) Legal: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, First Division, p. 402B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 891. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482448, p.328 of 729 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "William Sampson (1818-1866)," Memorial #146411708 , http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146411708 (accessed October 8, 2019). Harris Keeney (Switzerland County, Indiana, blacksmith & col 10th IN Legion, Prov Marshal) N00012499 1818-04-20 1872-01-15 Categories: People

Switzerland County, Indiana, blacksmith and soldier. New York native. Married to Charlotte L. Keeney. Father of John G. Keeney, Job M. Keeney, Charles H. Keeney, and Edwin H. Keeney. Blacksmith in Switzerland County in 1850. Postmaster in Switzerland County in 1853. Blacksmith in Switzerland County in 1860. Served in the 54th Indiana Infantry as first lieutenant from June 10, 1862, to September 1862. Served in 10th Indiana Legion of Switzerland County as colonel from May 29, 1863. Provost marshal of Switzerland County in February 1863.

Relationships Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment (41st Indiana Volunteer Regiment) (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Posey, p. 439A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Jefferson, p. 313. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2014), p. 15. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Indiana (Randolph-Whitley), Vol. #14, p. 291 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 3, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel L. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 465. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #363102, Certificate #306143. Find A Grave, "Col Harris Keeney (1818-1872)," Memorial #121786743, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121786743 (accessed April 25, 2020). KYR-0001-004-0371. Hartsville, Tennessee P00012496 Categories: Places

Seat of Trousdale County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.3911, -86.1661 "Trousdale County,"Tennessee Encylopedia, https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/trousdale-county/ (accessed on April 24, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Hartsville, Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov /(accessed on April 24, 2020). 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. Switzerland County, Indiana P00005383 Categories: Places

County in southeastern Indiana. Seat at Vevay, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River.

38.7478, -85.0672 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 161. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Switzerland County, Indiana" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 1, 2020). 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. Confederate States Army O00000506 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).

Relationships Military: William Harris (possible confederate soldier) Military: United States Army Military: John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier) Military: Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Political: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Military: [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) Military: Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) Military: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) ) Military: Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)

Henry Putney Beers, The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259. 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment (41st Indiana Volunteer Regiment) (U.S.A.) O00012482 1861-09-20 1865-07-12 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 20, 1861. Mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on July 12, 1865. Also known as the 41st Volunteer Regiment. Commander(s): John A. Bridgland, Robert N. Hudson, Edward M. McCook, James W. Stewart.

Relationships Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 2, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: W. R. Holloway, State Printer, 1865), 400, 411-12. Barren Circuit Court O00000351 1798 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861 and the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham (1862-1865) and Thomas Tyler Alexander (1864-1865). Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William B. Jones (1861-1865) and John H. C. Sandidge (1864-1865). Clerk(s): William E. Munford (1861-1862) and William L. Porter (1863 and 1865).

Relationships Legal: B. A. Wheat (Barren County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: W. F. Evans (Glasgow, Kentucky) Legal: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Legal: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Legal: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Legal: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

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. KYR-0001-004-0371. Petition English Version 1 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 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of The Commonwealth of Ky.

The petitioners John. W. Hauze & Marion Larimer represent to Your Excellency, that that they have been soldiers in the Federal army for three years & more, that the larger portion of their Regiment (the 41st) 2d Indiana Cavalry were at Hartsville Tenn. in the winter of 1863 & Captured by the Rebel John Morgan & his forces, that they escaped without horses, and made their way on foot to near Glasgow Ky. where they took some horses for the purpose of riding a part the way to where they could get transportation, that they were pursued, arrested, charged with stealing the Horses & confined in the Jail of Barren county

That in Feby 1863 they were released from Jail by given each a bond for $500 with William Sampson security conditioned that they would appear at the June term 1863 of said court to answer said charge

They state they went home, reported to the provost marshal of their

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county Col. Harris Kirney, who permitted them to remain at home a short time & then sent them to regiment where the remained and foughts until their three years were ended

That at the June Term 1863 of the Barren circuit the bonds executed by Sampson their security were forfeited, That at the march Term 1865 of said Judgment was rendered against Wm Sampson their surety for the amt of said bonds-- $500 each That the prosecution against them was dismissed-- They say they are poor, Have served their country faithfully, & respectfully petition that the Judgments against Sampson be remitted

John W Hauze Marion Larimer

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Petition to Gov