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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-0001-004-0421 BR9-164 to BR9-165

Frankfort, Franklin 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. Henry Mitchell (Todd County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and farmer) N00015778 1818? Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper. Tennessee native. Married to Harriet M. Mitchell. Father of William C. Mitchell, Nancy J. Mitchell, Fannie J. Mitchell, Thomas J. Mitchell, and Augustus E. Mitchell. Resident in Todd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Todd County in 1860. Operated a tavern in Todd County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Todd Circuit Court Political: Benjamin Helm Bristow (Caldwell County, KY, col 8th KY Cav USA, state senator)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 2, p. 269A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 2, p. 179. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 812. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 369B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Allensville, p. 318A. KYR-0001-004-0422. Benjamin Helm Bristow (Caldwell County, KY, col 8th KY Cav USA, state senator) N00006056 1832-06-20 1896-06-22 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and politician. Elkton, Kentucky, native. Son of Francis Marion Bristow and Emily Edwards Helm Bristow. Married to Abigail Slaughter Bristow on November 21, 1854. Attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1854. Major of unorganized recruits for the United States Army, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in August 1861. Served in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant from 1861 to April 15, 1862. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and colonel from September 8, 1862, to September 23, 1863. Assisted in the capture of John Hunt Morgan in July 1863. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1863. Helped form and led the Unconditional Union party. Assistant district attorney for Kentucky in 1865.

Relationships Social: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: United States Army Social: Henry Mitchell (Todd County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and farmer) Political: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 209. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 910. Ross A. Webb, "Benjamin Helm Bristow" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 123-24. The Union Army: States and Regiments, vol. 4 (Madison, Wis.: Federal Publishing Company, 1908), 344. Todd County, Kentucky P00002675 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Elkton, Kentucky.

36.81, -87.1542 "Elkton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 2, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Todd County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 888-89. Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky O001019 1792 Categories: Organizations

One chamber of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Comprised of 38 Senators.

Robert M. Ireland, The Kentucky State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999). Kentucky Constitution. Accessed February 17, 2017 (http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legresou/constitu/intro.htm). Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1864-01-15 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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Senate Chamber Jany 15th 1864 GovBramlette--

I have the honor to reporthand you herewith the petition of Mr Henry Mitchell of Todd Co with accompanying documents.

I know nothing of the case but know that Mr M is a sober, quiet citizen & I commend him to your favorable consideration.

With high respect I am Yr Obt Svt. B. H. Bristow