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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-0001-004-0377 BR9-99 to BR9-100

Williamstown, Grant 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. John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) N00012601 1797? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Susannah Marshall Marcus in Owen County, Kentucky, on January 26, 1826. Father of John Mason Marcus, Harriet Marcus Neal, America Marcus, and Lomida J. Marcus. Farmer in Grant County in 1850. Farmer in Grant County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA)) Social: F. Burch (Grant County, Kentucky) Social: William S. Annis (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William H. Hume (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William George Linn (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Social: Burl N. Carter (Grant County, Kentucky, teacher, minister) Social: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Social: William Smith (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit ct clerk) Social: Mathew Burnett (Judge of Grant County Court) Social: William G. Frank (Owen County, Kentucky, physician) Social: B. Stewart (Grant County, Kentucky) Social: David Boys (Grant County, Kentucky, brick mason) Social: Daniel L. Cunningham (Grant County, Kentucky, wool carder.) Social: Winston T. Simmons (Grant County, KY, attorney) Social: Thomas S. Porter (Grant County, Kentucky, schoolteacher and postmaster.) Social: Floyd Wilson (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: Frank Hodge (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard A. Collins (Grant County, Kentucky, private) Social: John Rains (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Social: John Little (Owen County, Kentucky, laborer) Social: Willis H. Marksberry Sr. (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: James W. Hutchinson (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: James Lemmon (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: J. W. Jones (Grant County, Kentucky, wagon maker) Social: M. P. Savage (Grant County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Social: William F. Tully (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Alfred Kendall (Grant County, KY, farmer) Social: James W. Collins (Grant County, KY, landlord) Social: Samuel Marksbury (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Henry H. Tully (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and constable) Social: John Quincy Gouge (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John Marksberry (Grant County, Kentucky, sheriff) Social: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 310B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 831. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Owen County Marriages, Film #000272771, p. 184 of microfilm (accessed via ancestry.com). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film #000266220, p. 406 of microfilm (accessed via ancestry.com). John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) N00012530 1827-01-09 1906-05-07 Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter. Kentucky native. Son of Charles Neal and Elizabeth Lee Neal. Married to Harriet Marcus Neal in Grant County, Kentucky, on July 28, 1848. Father of Mary E. Neal, Francis M. Neal, John W. Neal, Susan E. Neal, Sephrona J. Neal, Charles L. Neal, and Anna Neal. Carpenter in Scott County in 1850. Carpenter in Owen County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 502B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 137. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Pleasant, p. 339A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film #000266220, p. 406 of microfilm (accessed via ancestry.com). Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates; Year: 1906; Roll: 12, record #526, p. 115. Thomas D. Neale (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer) N00012615 1837? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Son of John C. Neale and Catherine Neale. Married to Sarah Jane Mulberry Neale in Scott County on September 15, 1862. Father of Preston Neale. Farm laborer in Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 503B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District 1, p. 963. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, Big Eagle, p. 213A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film #000183225, p. 216 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7057774, Scott County Deaths, File #116 61 8735. John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) N00012602 1826? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer. Son of John W. Marcus and Susan Marcus. Married to Mary Ann Penell Marcus in Scott County, Kentucky, on October 12, 1860. Father of Emeline Marcus, Martha Marcus, and Alice Marcus. Farmer in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from November 25, 1861, to June 22, 1865.

Relationships Familial: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 831. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Cordova, p. 487A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film #000183225, p. 305 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, Leavenworth, KS, "M" Register, p. 12129. William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) N00000208 1821-02-24 1874-03-13 Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Rankin and Gertrude Burgess Rankin. Married to Laura McClure Rankin. Father of Kate Rankin, Rowan Rankin, and John McClure Rankin. Attorney in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1850. Census enumerator in Grant County in 1850. Master of the Grant Masonic Lodge No. 85 in Grant County in 1851. Attorney in Grant County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Grant County from 1861 to 1863.

Relationships Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Social: Abram G. Wileman (Pendleton County, Kentucky doctor and major 18th Ky Inf)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Town of Williamstown, p. 362. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Town of Williamstown, p. 184. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Scotts Precinct, p. 307B. "An Act to Incorporate Grant Lodge, No. 85, of Free and Accepted Masons," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at November Session, 1850, vol. 2 (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges & Co, State Printers, 1851), 396-97. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 291. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 15378, State 828. "William Stevenson Rankin (1821-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial 154700058, accessed January 27, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154700058. John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002277 1829-04-07 1903-12-01 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Ohio native. Married to Theresa Frank Scott in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 3, 1857. Married to Sallie F. Chiles Scott in Mason County on November 30, 1859. Father of Nettie Scott. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Partner with James Simpson in Simpson & Scott law firm in Frankfort in 1861. Commonwealth's attorney for the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) Legal: Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) Legal: William Tucker (Grant County resident) Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Robert F. Coleman (Burlington, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: John Sanders (Posey, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Boone County Court Legal: Boone Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. ) Social: [Unknown] Frazier (Mentioned as a judge in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1862.) Social: Emery Whitaker (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: John Calvin Mason (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney, congressman, and soldier.) Social: Robert Milligan (Mercer County, Kentucky, professor and university president. President of Kentucky University) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: W. T. Moore (Franklin County, Kentucky, minister.) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Familial: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 154A. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), 324. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts for the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1868, Legislative Document Series, No. 2 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, Public Printer, 1869), 23. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281844. "John L. Scott," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 13, 1860, p. 2. "New Law Firm at Frankfort--Simpson & Scott," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 8, 1861, p. 3. "Touching Bereavement," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 8, 1866, p. 3. "Attorney John L. Scott Dead," The Morning Herald (Lexington, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 4. "Deaths: John L. Scott," Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 1. L. F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 149. "Col John Lafayette Scott (1829-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15017815, accessed September 5, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15017815. Williamstown, Kentucky P00002296 Categories: Places

Seat of Grant County, Kentucky.

38.6381, -84.5605 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 122. “Williamstown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Grant County, Kentucky P00000938 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Williamstown.

38.6381, -84.5605 "Grant County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 383. “Williamstown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Scott County, Kentucky P001030 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Georgetown, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 Ann Bolton Bevins, "Scott County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 805-06. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky 1863-12-01 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Williamstown Dec 1 -- 1863 Hon Thos E Bramlett Gover. of Kentucky Dear Sir

Enclosed is the petition of John Marquesof this county which explains itself. I will add that the facts are I believe correctly stated, but not so fully as they might have been John Neal is his son in law, lived near the line betwene Scott& Grant -- There was a great nest of theives in his neighborhood that annoyd&gt; the people greatly -- Neal was accused of being one of the theives -- was tried with a number of others & held to bail by a court of inquiry -- Marques was his bail --

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After the trial a company of citizens mostly Home guards & mostly good citizens held a meeting & resolved that John Neal should leave ^the^ neighborhood together with his brother Thomas Neal & others or they would hang them. Neal was notified & left & has never returned -- now as I am informed lives out of the State -- I believe in Ia -- The others left also -- The stealing had no connection with the rebelion the Neals being loyal Unionmen & prosecuted in part by the best Union men in the country -- Neal is a bad man but is gone -- I was prosecuting him & know what I write is true -- Marques gets drunk -- but is an industrious peaceable old man -- is loyal -- owns 200 acres of poor bushy hill land & nothing more

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has a host of grandchildren to support -- the family of one son who has been in the Federal army since 1861 -- being of the number -- He is truly & actively loyal & c & except his disapition is a harmless citizen -- is old & infirm & will be ruined -- utterly ruined -- if he has this Judgt to pay. I therefor earnestly write in asking that you remit it all except officers fees &c If desired he will try to get Neal & have him tried although he is his son in law --

Truly &c W S Rankin

His land is to be sold on the 14th -- inst -- Mr Scott is the comwlths atty --