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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-0001-004-1370 BR12-123-1

Columbia, Adair 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. Edward K. Owsley (Edmonson County Postmaster) N00002588 1820? Categories: People

Edmonson County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and postmaster. Kentucky native. Postmaster for the Mammoth Cave District in Edmonson County from 1862 to 1865. Hotel keeper in Edmonson County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Barren Circuit Court Political: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General)

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), Edmonson County, KY, July 1863, p. 14, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, p. 37, (accessed via Ancestry.com). Thomas Tyler Alexander (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, judge, and provost marshal) N00002587 1823-07-30 1888-03-24 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, judge, and provost marshal. Henry County, Virginia, native. Son of Joseph Alexander and Sarah Bouldin Alexander. Married to Ellen C. Alexander. Graduated from Princeton College and the University of Louisville Law School. Attorney in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Cumberland County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1862. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Provost marshal of the 4th District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from May 1863 to December 1863. Judge of the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1864 to 1874.

Relationships Legal: Adair County Court Legal: Green Johnson (Adair County murderer) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Political: William H. Woods (Green County, Kentucky, Presbyterian minister) Social: Edward K. Owsley (Edmonson County Postmaster) Political: Charles P. Gray (Clinton County, KY, teacher and clerk) Political: John C. Burchett (Clinton County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Social: Eli Wheat (Adair County, Kentucky, saddler and judge) Social: John R. Wheat (Adair County, Kentucky, merchant and captain) Social: Edmund Terrill Willis, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) Social: George R. Page (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 279A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 153. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 1A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 53B. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878) p. 32. "Will Arrive To-day: The Remains of Judge Alexander to be Interred in Cave Hill," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 26, 1888, p. 5. Reports of Bvt. Brig. Gen. D. C. McCallum, Director and General Manager of the Military Railroads of the United States, and The Provost Marshal General (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), p. 151. Michael C. Watson, comp., An Adair County, Kentucky History (Columbia, Ky.: Watson Publications, 2001), p. 56. "Thomas Tyler Alexander (1823-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88555432, accessed March 16, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88555432. KYR-0001-004-1309. KYR-0001-029-0557. Columbia, Kentucky P001014 Categories: Places

Seat of Adair County, Kentucky.

37.1028, -85.3064 “Columbia,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 216. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Columbia, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 25, 2020). Barren Circuit Court O00000351 1798 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861 and the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham (1862-1865) and Thomas Tyler Alexander (1864-1865). Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William B. Jones (1861-1865) and John H. C. Sandidge (1864-1865). Clerk(s): William E. Munford (1861-1862) and William L. Porter (1863 and 1865).

Relationships Legal: B. A. Wheat (Barren County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: W. F. Evans (Glasgow, Kentucky) Legal: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Legal: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Legal: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Legal: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

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. KYR-0001-004-0371. Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky 1864-12-16 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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Columbia Ky Decr 16" 1864 Gov. Bramlette Dear Sir

At the last term of the Barren Circuit Court an Indictment for "Hog stealing" was found and returned by the Grand Jury against E K. Owsley Esq -- from my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr Os- his character standing as a Gentleman of irreproachable integrity -- I need not assure you that I was astounded at such an accusation; I have made enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the case. and am gratified to be able to state from reliable information, that the prosecution is malicious and unfounded -- It might be that the same feeling of malevolence that set on foot the charge might stimulate the parties to sustain it, and Mr Owsley has thought proper to ask that the proceeding be stopped before trial and in that view of the case I cheerfully join with him in asking your Excellencys interposition in his behalf, I do this too the more willingly on account of his much esteemed relations and family with whom I have mingled in closest ties of friendship from early boyhood. Hoping that your Excellency will favourably consider this application

I remain very Respt your friend & obt servant T T Alexander