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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-0001-004-1331 BR12-73

Carlisle, Nicholas 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 Delaney (Nicholas County, KY, student) N00006292 1842? Categories: People

Nicholas County, Kentucky, student. Native of Ireland. Son of Mary Delaney. Student in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John Barnett (Likely Nicholas County) Political: William R. Potts (Nicholas County) Political: S. C. Pepes (Nicholas County) Political: Edmund W. Hardy (Nicholas County farmer) Political: William K. Fuller (Nicholas County) Political: William H. Waugh (Nicholas County) Political: Mary Delaney (Nicholas County, KY, farmer) Political: John Palmer Potts (Nicholas County) Familial: Mary Delaney (Nicholas County, KY, farmer) Political: James Kennedy (Nicholas County)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 60. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Precinct 3, p. 27. Fitch Munger (Nicholas County, KY, attorney) N00006356 1818? 1866-03-26 Categories: People

Nicholas County, Kentucky, attorney. Lewis County, New York, native. Married to Mary Summers Munger on February 7, 1844. Father of Charles W. Munger and Harry Munger. Senator in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Commissioner of the Carlisle Cemetery Company in 1861.

Relationships Legal: John Delaney (Nicholas County, KY, student) Economic: John Delaney (Nicholas County, KY, student) Social: John F. McMillan (Carlisle, Nicholas Co, Kentucky, physician.) Social: Thomas Edwin Quisenberry (Nicholas County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 392. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Weston, District 1, p. 25. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 1. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 651. William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), 758-59. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Called Session Which Was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Thursday, the 17th Day of January, 1861, and Ended on Friday, the Fifth Day of April, 1861 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1861), ch. 168, p. 90. Carlisle, Kentucky P00000537 Categories: Places

Seat of Nicholas County, Kentucky.

38.312, -84.0274 "Carlisle, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed December 5, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Joan W. Conley, “Carlisle,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 163. Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky 1864-11-19 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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Carlisle Nov, 19, 1864 Hon Thos. E. Bramblet Gov. of Ky

Dear sir I Enclose you herewith Mr. Delaneys Petition

I was Attorney for Delaney in the trial and I am satisfied his Case presents just Considerations for your clemency

He is very much afflicted with fits his neighbours & family said it affected his mind & small things enraged him & made him almost an irresponsible being --

His sho^u^lder blade was broken and he had his arm tied up at the trial & it was broken by a fall when in a fit -- All the Jurors except one that I have seen signed the Petition-

Truly yours Fitch Munger