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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-0001-004-0422 BR9-166 to BR9-167

Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky 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. 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. Elkton, Kentucky P00000320 Categories: Places

Seat of Todd County, Kentucky.

36.81, -87.1542 "Elkton" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 291. "Elkton, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 2, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Todd Circuit Court O00000578 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 2nd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas C. Dabney and R. T. Petree. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): E. P. Campbell. Clerk(s): Benjamin T. Perkins.

Relationships Legal: William H. Norman (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah Jones (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William T. Kennedy (Todd County, Kentucky, wool carder) Legal: Joseph W. Bartlett (Todd County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Neander Stinnett (Todd County, KY, resident) Legal: Leander N. Stennett (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Margaret J. Winders Stinnett (Todd County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk) Legal: Henry Mitchell (Todd County, Kentucky, tavern keeper and farmer) Legal: Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky 1864-01-12 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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Elkton Jan 12 1864 Col B. F. Bristoe Dear Sir

At the last term of the court Three hundred dollars I was fined Three hundred dollars on a charge of having violated a Tavern Lisens Bond I am in Solvent have a family five Children had my hous Burnt 12 months ago with a loss of allmost Everything we had I would humbly ask your assistance in presenting the inclosed petition by attending to this you will ever have my good feelings

yours Truly Henry Mitchell