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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-0001-004-1389 BR12-157

Lexington, Fayette 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. William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) N00011936 1840? 1870-05-25 Categories: People

Plymouth, Massachusetts, salesman and soldier. Massachusetts native. Son of Lewis Keith and Asaba Keith. Resident of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, in 1850. Salesman in Plymouth County in 1860. Upholsterer in Massachusetts in 1862. Served as a private in the 29th Massachusetts Infantry from January 1862 to December 1862. Listed as "deserted" in June 1863.

Relationships Military: George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) Military: United States Army Legal: George Robertson (Fayette County, Kentucky, judge, congressman and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Plymouth, East Bridgewater, p. 244A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Plymouth, East Bridgewater, p. 830. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Massachusetts, NARA RG 94, Roll RG94-CMSR-MA-29INF-Bx2540. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Massachusetts, NARA RG 94, Roll RG94-CMSR-MA-29INF-Bx2563MISC. _Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts (accessed through ancestry.com on January 19, 2020). KYR-0001-004-1389. George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) N00006215 1826-12-03 1885-10-29 Categories: People

New York engineer, surveyor, teacher, businessman, soldier, and politician. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan in New York, New York, on May 22, 1860. Father of Mary McClellan and George Brinton McClellan. Attended the University of Pennsylvania. Graduate of The United States Military Academy at West Point in 1846. Commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Served as a brevetted first lieutenant and captain in the 1st Cavalry in the Mexican-American War until January 16, 1857. Chief engineer and vice president of the Illinois Central Railroad. President of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad in 1860. Commissioned as the Ohio militia major general of volunteers on April 23, 1861. Served in the Regular Army as major general from May 3, 1861, to November 1, 1861. Served as general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States from November 1, 1861, to November 5, 1862. Nominated as the Democratic candidate for President in 1864.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, Cornwall, p. 180B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, 21st District Ward 21, p. 692B. Find A Grave, "George B. McClellan (December 03, 1826-October 29, 1885)," Memorial #2765, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2765 (accessed April 09, 2019). Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 290-292; Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon, (New York: Ticknor & Fields Press, 1988). George Robertson (Fayette County, Kentucky, judge, congressman and attorney) N00008538 1790-11-18 1874-05-16 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, judge, politician, and attorney. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander Robertson and Margaret Robertson. Married to Eleanor Bainbridge Robertson in Garrard County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1809. Father of Alexander Robertson, James Robertson, and George Robertson. Admitted to the bar in 1809. Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1822 to 1827, 1848, 1851, and 1852. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1823, 1825 to 1827, 1851, and 1852. Secretary of state for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1828. Chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1829 to 1843. Law professor at Transylvania University from 1834 to 1857. Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Engaged Benjamin Gill as a law student in Lexington in 1860. Justice of the court of appeals for the second district of Kentucky from 1864 to 1871.

Relationships Legal: Fayette Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 210A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 550. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 92. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, ed. James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888): 277-78. 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/. 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). Massachusetts P00001140 Categories: Places

State in the northeast United States. Capital at Boston. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

42.3601, -71.0589 Jack Tager, Martha L. Clark, and John S. Driscoll, "Massachusetts," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 17, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts. “Boston, Massachusetts," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed on June 9, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Sharpsburg, Maryland P00012879 Categories: Places

Town in Washington County, Maryland. Site of Battle of Antietam. Located on Antietam Creek.

39.4576, -77.7489 Sharpsburg, Maryland: A Town Rich in History and Heritage, Town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, 2020, https://sharpsburgmd.com/ (accessed on June 16, 2020). "Battle of Antietam," Encyclopædia Britannica, September 10, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Antietam (accessed on June 16, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Sharpsburg, Maryland," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 16, 2020). 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). Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

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. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1864-12-01 Petition English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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.
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Lexington Ky. 1st Decr 1864 To Govr T. E. Bramlette -- Sir --

William H. Keith, a citizen of Massachusetts, enlisted for three years, in that state at near the beginning of the existing war as a volunteer soldier in the army of the union. He fought under McClelland in all his Peninsular battles, and at Antietam; and also fought in several other Battles. His compy being stationed near Lexington Ky. in Feby 1864, he was found on a stolen horse, was indicted for larceny in the Fayette circuit court and, on exparte testimony proving that the horse had been stolen and that he was found riding it, the Grand Jury found a true Bill at the February term of sd court on the 23rd day of that month -- He was arrested on a Bench warrant next day and committed to Jail. The court required Bail in the penalty of $1,000 which Keith, being "a stranger in a strange land," was unable to give -- On the 21st of May 1864, while still in Jail, he volunteered as a substitute in the same army, was bailed out, and is now ^again^ in the United service for three Years from the 21st of May 1864. He is a very intelligent and apparently Candid man. He protested his innocence, and averred that another soldier, in a frolic, made him drunk and put him on the horse ^and in that condition the horse was found:^ That he was ignorant of the ownership or the stealing of the horse..

On these facts -- considering the doubtfulness of his guilt and the value of his Military services, and especially the fact that he is now a volunteer for three years to fight the battles of the union -- I presume to present him to your Executive clemency and discretion as a fit subject for an anticipating pardon.

Resptly G Robertson

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Fayette Cir Ct vs Wm H Keith

Pardon granted & hand to Hon Geo Robertson

23d Dec/64