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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-0001-004-1367 BR12-120-1 to BR12-121

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 Macklin (Franklin County planter) N00002372 1805? 1865? Categories: People

Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Black Macklin. Father of Emma Macklin, Charles Macklin, Anna Macklin, Stephen Macklin, and Sally Macklin. Farmer in Franklin County in 1860. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Cohorn (18th KY Inf. Deserter/Franklin Farm Hand) Legal: Scott Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 33. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 7-8. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017553, Franklin County Deaths, File #21051. George W. Cohorn (Franklin County Farm Laborer) N00002371 1840? 1907? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Farm laborer in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William H. Cohorn (18th KY Inf. Deserter/Franklin Farm Hand) Legal: Scott Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 20. Find A Grave, "G. W. Cohorn (1840-1907)," Memorial #30234616, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30234616 (accessed March 14, 2017). William H. Cohorn (18th KY Inf. Deserter/Franklin Farm Hand) N00002374 1843-10-07 1917-01-13 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Farm laborer in Franklin County in 1860. Enrolled as a private in the 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) on July 7, 1862. Deserted on November 12, 1862. Returned in March 1864. Deserted in May 1864.

Relationships Military: 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Thomas H. Moore (Provost Marshall KY 7th/Clark County Whisky merchant) Legal: John N. Long (Scott County, KY, Provost Marshal / Trader) Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 19. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0310. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #7016191, Franklin County Deaths, File #943. John N. Long (Scott County, KY, Provost Marshal / Trader) N00002369 1832? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, stock trader and provost marshal. Kentucky native. Stock trader in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1860. Provost marshal of Scott County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: William H. Cohorn (18th KY Inf. Deserter/Franklin Farm Hand) Political: Sanford Chowning (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Scott County, District 2, p. 9. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Scott County, Newtown, p. 44. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Scott County, KY, 1863, p. 180. KYR-0001-004-1361. William Tecumseh Sherman (U.S. Army soldier) N00002379 1820-02-08 1891-02-14 Categories: People

U.S. Army soldier. Lancaster, Ohio, native. Married to Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1840. Breveted captain as administrative officer in California during the Mexican-American War. Resigned U.S. Army in 1853. Banker in San Francisco, California, from 1853 to 1857. Attorney in Fort Leavensworth, Kansas. Superintendent and professor of engineering at the Louisiana Seminary for Learning and Military Academy from 1859 to 1861. President of a street car company in St. Louis, Missouri in 1861. Commissioned a colonel of the 13th U.S. infantry in May 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in August 1861. Commander of U.S. forces in Kentucky in October 1861. Served in the Western Theatre in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Promoted to major general in May 1862. Commander of the Army of the Tennessee. Commander of all U.S. forces in the Western Theatre in 1864. Received the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's command at Duraham, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865. Appointed commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi in June 1865.

Relationships Military: William H. Cohorn (18th KY Inf. Deserter/Franklin Farm Hand)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, p. 84. Ezra J. Warner, Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 441-444. "William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 951, accessed January 12, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/951. James Harlan, Jr. (Franklin County/Mercer County Attorney/Politician) N00000761 1831-10-03 1907-06-15 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of James Harlan, Sr., and Eliza Harlan. Married to Amelia Harlan. Father of Henry Harlan. Attorney in Mercer County in 1860. In law practice with James Harlan, Sr. and John Marshall Harlan in Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1853 to September 1863. Partner in law practice with John Marshall Harlan in Frankfort from September 1863 to 1867. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Franklin County, Kentucky, from 1865 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Social: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Social: James T. Vanarsdale (Mercer/Jefferson Co. merchant) Legal: George W. Cohorn (Franklin County Farm Laborer) Legal: John Macklin (Franklin County planter) Social: Thomas Lee (Franklin County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 107. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 28. “The John Marshall Harlan Collection,” Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Library, University of Louisville, accessed February 9, 2017, https://louisville.edu/law/library/special-collections/the-john-marshall-harlan-collection. "Members of the House of Representatives," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 22, 1866, p. 1. “Ruined by Drink: A Brother of Justice Harlan Accidentally Killed by a Train,” The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.), June 16, 1897, p. 1. Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. Scott County, Kentucky P001030 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Georgetown, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 Ann Bolton Bevins, "Scott County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 805-06. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. United States of America P001802 Categories: Places

Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

38.8951, -77.0364 Karl Patterson Schmidt et al., "United States" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States) (accessed May 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, District of Columbia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 29, 2020). Atlanta, Georgia P00005758 Categories: Places

Capital of Georgia from 1868. Seat of Fulton County, Georgia.

33.749, -84.388 "Atlanta." Georgia.gov. Accessed May 13, 2017. https://georgia.gov/cities-counties/atlanta. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Atlanta, Georgia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 1, 2021). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Scott Circuit Court O00000576 1793 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): James Y. Kelley and John W. Holloway.

Relationships Legal: W. T. McHenry (Frankfort, Kentucky, laborer) Legal: Charles H. Tomlinson (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer, and prisoner) Legal: Frank Waters (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Richard H. Higgins (Louisville, KY bank teller)

“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), 303-08. “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), 301-06. “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), 347-50. 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00002378 1862-02-08 1865-04-04 Categories: Organizations

Organized in north-central Kentucky. Mustered into service on February 8, 1862. Mustered out of service on April 4, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel William A. Warner, Lieutenant Colonel John J. Landrum, and Lieutenant Colonel H. K. Milward.

Relationships Military: Samuel G. Rogers (Nicholas County constable, farmer, soldier) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Abram G. Wileman (Pendleton County, Kentucky doctor and major 18th Ky Inf)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 2-17. Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), p. 1205. 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)

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To the Governor Kentucky.

John Macklin & G. W. Cohorn, citizens of Franklin county respectfully state that the sheriff of Franklin county has in his hands and demanding payment of an execution in favor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against them for three hundred dollars and costs upon a judgment of the Scott circuit court upon at its November Term 1864.

Said liability came upon them as follows: One Wm H. Cohorn the brother of said G. W. Cohorn while being a member of the 18th Regiment of Kentucky Infantry, was at home on furlough in the Spring of 1864, was charged with committing a felony, arrested and put in the Scott county Jail. The petitioners went to Georgetown and entered bail for his appearance in the sum of three hundred dollars for his appearance for trial- Immediately upon his release from jail upon said surety being given, John Long, Provost Marshal of Scott County arrested said Wm H. Cohorn, took him from the possession of the petitioners, carried him straightway to Lexington, from which point he was sent by the military authorities of the United States to his regiment then with General Sherman on the Atlanta campaign. He has ever since been, and is still with his regiment at the front, and has all the time been beyond the reach of petitioners and of the process of the civil courts of this state. All this was without the connivance or consent of the petitioners and beyond their power or control-

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said Wm H Cohorn allways bore a good character, and has been in the 18th Ky Infantry ever since his its organization- Petitioners are satisfied that he would have stood his trial, but for the arrest by the provost Marshall. Petitioner Macklin has known Cohorn from his infancy and can speak positively as to his good character, and is assured that the trouble which resulted in his arrest by the civil authorities was caused by liquor, to which he was rarely addicted. He was at home on furlough and fell into bad company. It was beyond the power of petitioners to have produced the accused, and his absence as before stated was without the consent or connivance of them. Besides himself there are three other brothers in the Federal Army, and none of them were ever Known to be guilty of a dishonorable act-

John Macklin G. W. Cohorn

subscribed & sworn to before me by John Macklin and G. W Cohorn this 16th day of Dec 1864,

James Harlan Jr CCCKD

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Scott Cir Ct vs John Macklin & Geo W Cohorn

Petition for Remission $300, Remit 23d Dec/64