<title type="main">Joseph Holt to Edwin M. Stanton

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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-0001-004-0941 BR10-447 to BR10-448

Washington, District of Columbia James C. Wetmore (Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, merchant and Ohio state military agent) N00010610 1813-05-01 1895-08-13 Categories: People

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, merchant and Ohio state military agent. New York native. Son of Oliver Wetmore and Sarah Brewster Wetmore. Married Catherine Mary De Hart Chetwood Wetmore in Elizabethtown, New Jersey on May 31, 1851. Father of John C. Wetmore. Member of the New York Stock exchange from 1850 to 1856. Merchant in Columbus, Ohio in 1860. Appointed State Military Agent for Ohio 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.)) Military: William Pittinger (Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A)) Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Legal: United States War Department Legal: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.))

: Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Franklin County, Columbus, p. 90. New York, Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880 (Baber Collection), Marriages taken from the “Brooklyn Eagle,” (accessed via ancestry.com). Richard F. Miller ed., States at War, Volume 5, A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2015), 411. “The Ogden Family in America: Elizabethtown Branch and their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pil,” North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), 259 (accessed via ancestry.com). James Carnahan Wetmore, The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches with Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices (Albany, NY: Munsell & Rowland, 1861), 314 (accessed via Google Books). “Obituary Record, James C. Wetmore,” New York Times, August 14, 1895. James C. Wetmore, Report of James C. Wetmore, Ohio state military agent, to the governor of Ohio (Washington D.C: Philip & Solomons, 1865), 3-9 (accessed via HaitiTrust). Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.)) N00010604 1828-07-07 1871-07-20 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, soldier. Salem, Massachusetts, native. Son of William Buffum and Mary Chace Buffum. Married to Sarah Buffum. Farmer in Salem, Massachusetts in 1850. Served in the 21st Ohio Infantry Volunteers as private and second lieutenant from September 2, 1861, to May 1, 1864. Participated in Andrew's Raid, or "Great Locomotive Chase," on April 12, 1862. Taken by the C.S.A. as a prisoner of war on March 17, 1863. Presented with Medal of Honor on March 24, 1863. Accused of theft and sentenced to three years in Kentucky State Prison in July 1864. Pardoned on August 26, 1864.

Relationships Military: 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) Military: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: United States War Department Military: William Pittinger (Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A)) Military: United States Army Legal: William Pittinger (Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A)) Military: Ormsby Macknight Mitchel (Cincinnati, Ohio, major general (U.S.A.)) Legal: James C. Wetmore (Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, merchant and Ohio state military agent) Legal: William Augustus Nichols (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assistant adjutant general, lt. col.) Legal: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Legal: Kentucky State Penitentiary

Find A Grave, "Robert Buffum (1828-1871)," Memorial #19681, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19681 (accessed May 2, 2019). Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Salem, p. 136 (accessed via Ancestry.com May 2, 2019). Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Essex County, MA, June 1863, p. 24, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Ohio, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M552, Roll 0014. Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-2013, (U.S. Government Printing Office, accessed via Fold3.com), p. 46. KYR-0001-004-0935. KYR-0001-004-0936. KYR-0001-004-0937. KYR-0001-004-0938. KYR-0001-004-0939. KYR-0001-004-0940. KYR-0001-004-0941. KYR-0001-004-0942. Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) N00002647 1814-12-19 1869-12-24 Categories: People

Ohio attorney, politician, and Secretary of War. Son of David Stanton and Lucy Latham Norman Stanton. Married to Mary A. Lamson Stanton in Franklin County, Ohio, on December 31, 1836. Father of Lucy Lamson Stanton and Edwin Lamson Stanton. Married to Ellen Maria Hutchison Stanton on June 25, 1850. Father of Eleanor A. Stanton, Lewis Hutchinson Stanton, and Bessie B. Stanton. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1856. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States of America from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States of America from January 1862 to May 1868.

Relationships Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John A. Brady (Washington County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon. 1st Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: United States War Department Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: United States Army Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Political: United States War Department Military: Catharinus P. Buckingham (Ohio, manufacturer and Union general) Military: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Joseph K. Pitts (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer; sergeant 16th Ky Inf (U.S.A.)) Military: 8th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Arthur Erenburgh (Allegheny County, PA, engineer, lieut. 1st Ky Ind. Battery & 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Political: United States Army Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Political: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Government of the United States of America Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Jacob Cozatt (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and miller. ) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Presley F. Hansbrough (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Capt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Paymaster Department Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville City, p. 57B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 4, p. 375. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 2, p. 270A. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Franklin County, Film 000285142, p. 163. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 74014, State 904. Walter Stahr, Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017). William L. Barney, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 301-2. Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) N00005761 1832-11-15 1909-11-30 Categories: People

Washington, District of Columbia, soldier. Harrison County, Ohio, native. Married to Laura L. Vincent. Father of Thomas N. Vincent. Graduated from the United State Military Academy in 1853 as a second lieutenant. Served in the United States 2nd Artillery Regiment until 1859. Appointed assistant professor of chemistry at the United States Military Academy in August 1859. Served in the Army of Northwestern Virginia (U.S.A.) as an assistant adjutant general, captain, and major from July 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Judge Advocate General Corps (U.S.A.) Legal: United States War Department Legal: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.)) Military: William Berry (McLean County, Kentucky, physician &surgeon 7th KY Inf USA) Political: William Berry (McLean County, Kentucky, physician &surgeon 7th KY Inf USA) Military: William Robert Davidson (Madison, Indiana, physician and surgeon 22nd & 7th KY Inf) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Political: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Political: United States War Department Military: 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Lewis B. Vimont (Bourbon County, Kentucky, clerk and 2nd lieut 7th Inf USA) Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Nelson C. Lawrence (Indiana & KY musican; pvt 7th IN Inf & 8th Ky Cav; maj 17th Ky Cav (all USA)) Military: Columbus H. Martin (Muhlenberg County, Ky, farm laborer and captain in the 11th Ky Inf (U.S.A.)) Military: Enoch George Jacobs (Hamilton Co. OH, blacksmith apprentice, 1st Lieut. 12th Ky Inf.) Military: Robert B. Herron (Highland County, Ohio, student and chaplain 14th Ky Inf. USA) Military: William R. Holbrook (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer and private in 14th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.)) Military: Benjamin F. Pumphrey (Garrard Co, Ky, house carpenter, pvt thru capt 27th Ky Inf. USA) Military: William Morgan Pollitt (Mason County, Kentucky, physician; ass't surgeon 12th Ky Inf USA) Military: John S. Thompson (Lawrence County, Ky, farmer; 2nd lieut.14th Ky Inf USA) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Leonidas S. Sullivan (Indiana resident and captain in 5th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.)) Military: Green C. Freeman (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieut 12th Ky Inf USA) Military: Robert L. Beckham (McLean County, Kentucky, physician and captain in 17th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.)) Military: Joseph Ballow (Pulaski County, Kentucky, resident and captain in 12th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.)) Military: William H. Norton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and 2nd lieutenant in 11th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.)) Military: Charles H. Harris (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and 2nd lieutenant in 11th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.)) Military: Joseph Gill Roberts (Frankfort, Kentucky, physician and soldier) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Lorenzo Thomas (Washington, District of Columbia, adjutant general of the U.S. Army) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: Provost Marshal General's Office

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Washington, District of Columbia, Ward 2, p. 386B. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. V, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 300. "Thomas MacCurdy Vincent (1832-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial #10652259, accessed June 5, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10652259. KYR-0002-033-0014. James Robert Dupuy (Commonwealth's Atty Louisville (7th) district) N002002 1831-08-04 1912-05-17 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Florence Low Dupuy in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 24, 1863. Father of Andrew L. Dupuy. Attended law school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1856 to 1857. Attended law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1857. Commonwealth's attorney for the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 9, p. 221B. 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. A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, for the Academical Year 1856-57: Second Term (Cambridge, Mass.: John Bartlett, 1857), 51. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819616. Roger M. Grace, “J. R. Dupuy: Most Obscure DA in Los Angeles County’s History,” Perspectives, Los Angeles Metropolitan News-Enterprise, p. 7, November 4, 2006. "James Robert Dupuy (1831-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90140026, accessed August, 8, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90140026. William Pittinger (Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A)) N00010602 1840-01-31 1904-04-24 Categories: People

Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A). Ohio native. Son of Thomas Pittenger and Mary Mills Pittenger. Resident Knoxville, Ohio in 1850. School teacher in Knoxville, Ohio in 1860. Appointed Sergeant in the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A) on September 5, 1861. Mustered out at Anderson Station, Tennessee on August 14, 1863. Awarded Medal of Honor on March 23, 1863.

Relationships Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Sarah Buffum (Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, resident ) N00010620 Categories: People

Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, resident. Married to Robert Buffum. Resident in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1864.

Relationships Familial: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.))

KYR-0001-004-0936 Ormsby Macknight Mitchel (Cincinnati, Ohio, major general (U.S.A.)) N00010611 1809-08-28 1862-10-30 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, soldier. Morganfield, Kentucky native. Married to Louisa Clark Trask Mitchell in 1831. Father of Harriet MItchel, Frederick A. Mitchel, Virginia Mitchel, Edwin Mitchel, Francis Mitchel, Louisa Mitchel, and Ormsby Mitchel. Graduate of West Point in 1829. Assistant professor of mathematics at West Point from 1829 to 1832. Second lieutenant of artillery in Florida territory in 1831. Lawyer in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1833. Assistant Professor at Cincinnati College in 1836. Chief engineer of the Little Miami Railroad, Ohio, from 1836 to 1837. Adjutant General of the state of Ohio from 1841 to 1848. Director of Cincinnati Observatory from 1845 to 1859. Chief engineer of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad from 1848 to 1849 and from 1852 to 1853. Employed Henry Twichel as assistant astronomy, John Corry as a laborer, Mary Stapleton, and Thomas Trask as a porter in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1850. Astronomer of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York from 1859 to 1861.

Enlisted on August 9, 1861 as brigadier general (U.S.A.). Commanded Department of the Ohio from September to November 1861. Led Andrew's Raid or Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862. Promoted to full major general on April 11, 1862. Assigned command of Department of the South and X Corps at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on September 17, 1862. Died from yellow fever in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on October 30, 1862.

Relationships Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.)) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 3B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Albany, Ward 7, p. 880. Christine Dee, "Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight (1809 1862)" Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History edited by David S. Heidler, and Jeanne T. Heidler (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000), (accessed May 3, 2019). James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography Vol.IV (New York: D. Appleton * Company, 1888), p. 341-342. The Union Army Vol. 8., (Madison: Federal Publishing Company, 1908), p. 177-178. Find A Grave, " Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (July 20th, 1809-October 30th, 1862)," Memorial #4767, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4767 (accessed June 11, 2019). David Tod (Governor of Ohio) N00005318 1805-02-21 1868-11-13 Categories: People

Ohio, twenty-fifth governor. Youngstown, Ohio native. Son of George Tod and Sarah Isaacs Tod. Married to Maria Smith Tod. Attended Burton Academy in Geauga County, Ohio. Went on to study law, and in 1827 was licensed to practice. Served as a one-term member of the Ohio State Senate in 1838. Served as ambassador to Brazil from 1847 to 1851. Elected governor by a popular vote in the 1861 general election. Served as governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Political: S. E. Smith (Jail in Lexington) Political: State of Ohio

Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 3, Westport, Conn.; Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols. Smith, Joseph Patterson. History of the Republican Party in Ohio, Vol. 1, Chicago, Ohio; Lewis Publishing Company, 1898. Find A Grave, "David Tod (February 21, 1805-November 13, 1868)," Memorial #21713, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21713 (accessed January 23, 2018). 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. Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) N00010597 1807-01-06 1894-08-01 Categories: People

Washington, District of Columbia, lawyer. Breckenridge County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Washington Holt and Eleanor Stephens Holt. Married to Mary Harrison Holt. Married to Margaret Wickliffe Holt in Nelson, Kentucky on April 2, 1850. Attended St. Joseph's College and Centre College. Attorney in 1831. Attorney for Jefferson County Circuit in 1833. U.S. Commissioner of Patents from 1857 to 1859. U.S. Postmaster General from 1859 to 1860. Attorney in Washington, D.C. in 1860. Employed Jane Clark and Alfred Simmes in Washington, D.C. in 1860. Secretary of War under President James Buchanan from December 1860 to March 1861. Served as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from September 3, 1862, to 1875. Head of the Bureau of Military Justice at its establishment in 1864, and promoted to brigadier general. Chief prosecutor in the Lincoln Assassination Trials in May 1865. Prosecutor in the Henry Wirz Trial for war crimes at Andersonville Prison in August 1865.

Relationships Military: Judge Advocate General Corps (U.S.A.) Military: Bureau of Military Justice Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Sarah Buffum (Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, resident ) Legal: William Pittinger (Knoxville, Jefferson County, Ohio, school teacher and sergeant (U.S.A)) Legal: Bureau of Military Justice Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: Judge Advocate General Corps (U.S.A.) Legal: Robert Buffum (Louisville, Kentucky, lieutenant (U.S.A.))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules,Washington, District of Columbia, Washington Ward 4, p. 560. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 000481488. Find A Grave, "Joseph Holt (1807-1894)," Memorial #5894187, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894187 (accessed April 29, 2019). Francis Drake,Dictionary of American Biography, (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879), 446-447. United States Army, The Army Lawyer: A History of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, 1775-1975, (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975), 52-53. William Augustus Nichols (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assistant adjutant general, lt. col.) N00005755 1818-05-12 1869-04-18 Categories: People

United States soldier. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Henrietta Virginia Nichols. Father of Francis Boude Nichols. Married to Clara Louise Nichols. Father of Edward Derussey Nichols, William Augustus Nichols, Jr., and Frank B. Nichols. Served in the U. S. Army in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, in 1850. Served in the U. S. Army in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1860. Served as assistant adjutant general under Edwin M. Stanton with the rank of lieutenant colonel from September 30, 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Samuel Breck (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S. Army)) Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Legal: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: United States War Department Political: Charles McGuire (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Elizabeth City County, Old Point Comfort, p. 52A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, District of Columbia, Georgetown 1st Ward, p. 45. Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reel 492, Trinity Episcopal Church Baptism Records, p. 76, p. 89 of 994 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Official Register of the United States (United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1862), 114. Hutchinson’s Washington and Georgetown Directory (Washington, District of Columbia, Hutchinson & Brothers Publishers, 1863), p. 155. Find A Grave, “William Augustus Nichols Sr. (1818-1869)," Memorial # 28398671, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28398671/william-augustus-nichols (accessed April 26, 2021). KYR-0002-033-0011. Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. Washington, District of Columbia P00001134 Categories: Places

Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.

38.9072, -77.0369 Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC) (accessed May 22, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, D.C.," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 8, 2019). United States War Department O00005118 1789 Categories: Organizations

Created in 1789 upon the inauguration of President George Washington. Responsible for oversight of all military departments. Led by the Secretary of War. Civil War-era secretaries of war: John B. Floyd (1857-1860), Joseph Holt (January-March 1861), Simon Cameron (March 1861-January 1862), and Edwin M. Stanton (January 1862-May 1868).

Relationships Military: William Henry Seward (New York governor, attorney and politician) Military: Boston Dillion (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Francis B. Alexander (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William A. Coffey (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William N. Owens (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Eli Houston Murray (Breckenridge County, KY, soldier) Political: William Harrison Randall, Sr. (Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney, clerk, and politician.) Political: Brutus Junius Clay (Representative) Political: Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) Political: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Kenneth W. Munden and Henry Putney Beers, The Union: A Guide to the Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962, reprinted 1986), 242-44. L. D. Ingersoll, A History of the War Department of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Francis B. Mohun, 1880). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 1, The Eastern Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) O00010608 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Chief administrative office of the U.S. Army. Operated from 1847 to 1964. Responsible for organizing recruits into companies and regiments with the assistance of state adjutant generals. Adjutant general during the Civil War: Lorenzo Thomas (1861-1869).

Relationships Political: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Stephen E. Bower, A Short History of the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps, 1775-2013, (Fort Jackson, SC: U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute, 2013). Judge Advocate General Corps (U.S.A.) O00010606 1775-07-29 Categories: Organizations

Branch of the U.S. military concerned with military justice and military law. Position of Judge Advocate General established by General George Washington on July 29, 1775. Judge Advocate Corps created in 1862 by Congress. Commander(s): John F. Lee (1849-1862), Joseph Holt (1862-1875).

Relationships Military: Bureau of Military Justice

Army JAG Corps, "History," United States Army, (accessed May 2, 2019). Bureau of Military Justice O00010605 1864-06-20 1884-06-05 Categories: Organizations

Established June 20, 1864 to receive, revise, report on, and record the proceedings of courts-martial, military commissions, and courts of inquiry of the armies of the United States. Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.) serves as head of Bureau. Combined with the Corps of Judge Advocates of the Army to form the Judge Advocate General's Department on July 5, 1884.

War Department. Bureau of Military Justice. 1864-1884, Organization Authority Record, NARA, (accessed May 2, 2019). Washington, District of Columbia 1864-06-21 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.

Ohio. Washington D. C.June 21" 1864

James C. Wetmore O. S. M Agent.

Refers application for the release of Lt Buffum sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for larceny of a pair of boots.

War Department Adjt Genl Office June 27th 1864

Respectfully referred to the Judge Advocate Genl. for report.

By order of the Secretary of War (signed) Thos M. Vincent. Asst. Adjt Genl.

Bureau of Military Justice August 13th 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secty of War, in connection with the letter ofJ. R. Dupuy Esqr Commonwealth's Attorney. This letter together with those of Mr. Pittinger & Mrs. Buffum furnishes the only information I have been enabled to obtain, in reference to the offence of late Lieut Buffum notwithstanding the emphatic assertion of Mr. Dupuy, that there were no mitigating circumstances in the case, it is at least possible if not probable that as urged by his wife & Mr Pittinger, the crime was committed while the Prisoner was under the influence of liquor That a soldier capabale of such patriotic daring as he had previously displayed, should with a sword at his side & a commission in his pocket, be capable while in his senses of so petty a theft as this, can scarcely be believed Lt Buffum, while a private soldier, as a member of the expedition organized by Gen Mitchell for cutting the eney's communications, rendered most important services to the government, and rendered them under cirucmstances of extreme peril & prolonged suffering For this he received a medal of honor from the Sercretary of War & a Commission from the Governor of Ohio. His release from his present humiliating confinement

would seem to be but a just appreciation of these services. -- It is therefore recommended that upon this ground the Governor of Kentucky be requested to pardon him.

(signed) J. Holt Judge Advocate Genl. Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War. (signed)U. A. Nichols Asst Adjt Genl.

A. G. Office Augst 16th 1864.