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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-0001-004-1396 BR12-168 to BR12-169

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. William P. Ross (Nicholas County, KY, attorney and farmer) N00006451 1825 1900 Categories: People

Nicholas County, Kentucky, attorney and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Greenberry Ross and Martha M. Ross. Married to Columbia Neal Ross in Nicholas County on February 8, 1853. Father of John Neal Ross. Married to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Davis Ross. Father of Columbia Ross, Henry Edsall Ross, and Mary Ross. Attorney in Nicholas County in 1850. Attorney in Nicholas County in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1860. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1863.

Relationships Social: Fitch Munger (Nicholas County, KY, attorney) Social: Thomas Edwin Quisenberry (Nicholas County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 394A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 278. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 137A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, Precinct 4, p. 275A. 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), Nicholas County, KY, July 1863, p. 12 (Accessed via ancestry.com). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7019802: All Counties, Nicholas County Deaths, File #2223, p. 2228 of microfilm. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017480: All Counties, Nicholas County Deaths, File #9305, p. 2710 of microfilm. Find A Grave, "Judge William P. Ross (1825-1900)," Memorial #183504441, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183504441 (accessed March 19, 2020). 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 1864-12-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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 Ky Dec 8th 1864 Gov. Bramblett: D Sir:

Inclosed find two Petitions for the remission of fines -- They are not numerously signed, but all who were applied to signed them, signatures to any given number might be obtained but it was deemed unneccessary,

One of them is signed by Eight of the Jury who rendered the verdict, The others of the Jury not being convenient to town were not applied to -- I am personally acquainted with the defendants Know their cases are meritorious, and am free to give the assurances that they will not again be indicted for a similar offense

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They are quite poor and a remission of the fines will greatly relieve them

Trusting you may find yourself able to grant them the relief they ask, I am Gov.

Very Respectfully Your Obt Sevt. W. P. Ross