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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-0001-004-1353 BR12-104-1

Jefferson County, Kentucky John Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) N00005181 1848? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Son of David Schroeder. Found guilty of stabbing with intent to kill along with father in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 7, 1863.

Relationships Social: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Legal: Andrew Dora (person in Jefferson County) Social: William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co) Legal: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney)

KYR-0001-005-0003. KYR-0001-004-2416. David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) N00005180 1822? 1866-04-27 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, butcher. Native of Germany. Father of John Schroeder. Accused of stealing a cow in Louisville, Kentucky in 1861. Found guilty of stabbing with intent to kill along with son John in Jefferson County, Kentucky on September 7, 1863. Butcher in Louisville, Kentucky in 1866.

Relationships Familial: John Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Joseph Kremer (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and private (U.S.A.)) Legal: George F. Huber (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Social: Nicholas Oerther (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: Christ Kronmueller Sr. ( Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Jacob Wurtele (Louisville, Kentucky, gardener) Social: Philip Tomppert (Louisville, Kentucky, mayor) Social: Elijah W. Rutledge (Louisville, Kentucky, postmaster) Social: Samuel Matlack (Louisville, Kentucky, magistrate and soldier.) Social: H. W. Hinman (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Timothy Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Michal Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky) Social: John Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky, private watchman) Social: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Social: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Frederick G. Dannecker (Louisville Lawyer) Social: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Legal: Andrew Dora (person in Jefferson County) Legal: William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co) Social: William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co)

KYR-0001-005-0003. KYR-0001-004-1332. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll 7007126, X County Deaths, p. 19. John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006024 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Partner in the law firm of Greene & Mattingly with Isaac R. Greene in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist)

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 435. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. 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. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. 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). 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00006023 1862-03-01 1866-02-15 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Niles, Michigan, Dowagiac, Michigan, and Buchanan, Michigan between December 9, 1861 and March 1, 1862. Mustered in on March 5, 1862 and mustered out on February 15, 1866.

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1286-1287. Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-11-21 Legal/Financial 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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State of Kentucky County of Jefferson

John Schroeder states on oath that he is a resident of Louisville Ky. that he is personally acquainted with Wm Salzman who was was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court. and for whom David Schroeder this affiants father went bail and that about ^the^ 12th of last May his said father sent him to Nashville Tennesee. to look after said Salzman, he ^said Salzman^ having left Louisville some time previous, And that after making search for several days succeeded in finding him in Nashville Tennwhere he was in the service of the United States being a member of the 12 Regiment of Michigan volunteers. And that he conversed with said Salzman and requested him to come back to Louisville -- and deliver himself up to the proper authorities which said Salzman refused to do.

John ^his X mark^ Schroeder

Subscribed and sworn to before me by John Schroeder this 21st day of November 1864

John N Mattingly Notary Public Jeff Co Ky