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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-0001-004-1795 BR13-328 to BR13-329

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Lennie [Unknown] (Lexington, KY, freedom seeker) N00016383 1846? Categories: People

Enslaved by Parker Bryant in Lexington, Kentucky. Married to an unknown soldier in Captain Hall's Company at Camp Nelson. Freedom seeker at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Relationships Slavery: Parker B. Bryant (Lexington, Kentucky, farmer and pig semen seller) Social: [Unknown] Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Social: David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man) Political: Henry H. Hadley (Fayette County, KY, captain 119th USCI Perry Co, OH resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 437A. KYR-0001-004-1795. Parker B. Bryant (Lexington, Kentucky, farmer and pig semen seller) N00016384 1827? 1879-08 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Son of Benjamin Bryant and Dorcus Bryant. Married to Martha “Mattie” L. Nutter Bryant in Fayette County, Kentucky, on November 14, 1854. Father of Charles Bryant, Mary “Mattie” Bryant, Annie Bryant, Elizabeth Bryant, and Margaret Bryant. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1850. Household owned thirteen enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1850. Farmer in Fayette County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Owned Lennie in Fayette County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 67A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 65. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 326. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 437A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 4, p. 101A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, p. 188. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994033, Fayette County Marriages. “Parker Benjamin Bryant (1827-1879)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100468170, accessed June 4, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100468170. KYR-0001-004-1795. John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) N00006072 1817-09-13 1900-09-25 Categories: People

Carlinville, Illinois, attorney, politician, and soldier. Eagle Creek, Kentucky, native. Married to Malinda Ann Neely Palmer. Attorney in Carlinville, Illinois, in 1840. Delegate to the Illinois State Constitutional Convention in 1847. Member of the Senate of the State of Illinois from 1852 to 1854. Delegate to the National Republican Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Presidential elector for the State of Illinois to the Republican ticket of 1860. Delegate to the Peace Convention in Washington, D.C., on February 4th, 1861. Served in the 14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel, brigadier general, and major general from 1861 to 1866. Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to command the Department of Kentucky from February 1865.

Relationships Military: Department of Kentucky Military: United States War Department Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: United States Army

George T. Palmer, A Conscientious Turncoat: The Story of John M. Palmer, 1817-1900. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941). John M. Palmer, Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Ernest Life. (Cincinnati: R. Clarke Co., 1901). "John McCauley Palmer," Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography (1600-1889), vol. 4, 640. "John McAuley Palmer (1817-1900)," Find a Grave, Memorial #5895174, accessed July 20, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5895174/john-mcauley-palmer. Theron Edmund Hall (Worcester County, MA, manufacturer, Ass't QM & superintendent of refugees in Camp Nelson) N00012748 1821-11-08 1880-08-03 Categories: People

Worcester County, Massachusetts, manufacturer and soldier. Massachusetts native. Son of Edmund Trobridge Hall and Abigail Slocomb Hall. Married to Jemima W. Mann Hall in Holden, Massachusetts, on May 8, 1844. Father of Mary E. Hall, Edmund B. Hall, and Abbie F. Hall. Manufacturer in Worcester County in 1860. Employed Ellen Marsh and Michal Morson as domestic servants in Worcester County in 1860. Served in the 21st Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant adjutant in July 1861. Served in the U.S. Volunteer Quartermaster Department with the rank of captain in July 1862. Transferred to Camp Nelson, Kentucky, where he was appointed assistant quartermaster and superintendent of the large numbers of African-American refugees who traveled with enlisting African-American soldiers to Camp Nelson. Resigned his military commission on December 5, 1864, continuing his work with refugees until August 16, 1865.

Relationships Military: Camp Nelson, Kentucky Social: Frederick Augustus Palmer (Essex County, New Jersey, servant and clerk.) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Holden, p. 616. Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DARVolume 084, p. 307. Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 342. "Holden," Massachusetts Civil War Monuments, accessed May 31, 2020, https://macivilwarmonuments.com/2018/12/21/holden/. Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870, NARA RG 94, Publication M619, Roll #0106. Massachusetts Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, Holden, p. 140. Richard Sears, A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea, 1866-1904 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996). Richard Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002). "Theron E. Hall (1821-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #134225877, accessed May 31, 2020), http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134225877. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Kentucky U.S. Colored Infantry Soldier) N00016407 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from Henry H. Hadley as the husband of Lennie [Unknown] and a soldier in the United States Colored Troops in 1864.

Relationships Familial: Lennie [Unknown] (Lexington, KY, freedom seeker) Military: Theron Edmund Hall (Worcester County, MA, manufacturer, Ass't QM & superintendent of refugees in Camp Nelson) Military: United States Army Military: Captain Hall's Company

KYR-0001-004-1795. David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man) N00016387 1798? Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and drayman. Virginia native. Married to Eliza Ann Ingles. Hack driver in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Drayman in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Familial: [Unknown] Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Social: Amanda [Unknown] (Ingles) (Lexington, Kentucky, enslaved woman and freedomseeker) Legal: Lexington City Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 200A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 364. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 1, p. 183B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994033, Fayette County Deaths, p. 155. KYR-0001-004-1795. KYR-0001-004-1660. James Sanks Brisbin (Superintendent of U.S. Army troops in Kentucky) N00006081 1837-05-23 1892-01-14 Categories: People

Centre County, Pennsylvania, teacher, editor, and soldier. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mary "Jane" Brisbin. Father of Caroline Brisbin. Attended Boalsburg Academy. Editor in Centre County in 1860. Commissioned as second lieutenant in the First Dragoons in the U.S. Army on April 26, 1861. Served in the 6th U. S. Cavalry Regiment as captain from 1862 to 1863. Served in the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry as colonel from March 1, 1864. Brevetted major general of U.S. Volunteers on May 2, 1865. Superintendent of U.S. Army troops in Kentucky in spring 1865. Mustered out of service on January 15, 1866.

Relationships Military: Adna H. Bowen (Covington, Kentucky, tobacconist and soldier) Military: United States Army

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 383A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Centre County, p. 311-12. "Brisbin, James, S.," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 1, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 378. "Caroline Wade Leaverton (1863-1947)," Find A Grave, Memorial #39539809, accessed November 8, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39539809. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), 45. "James Sanks Brisbin Biographical Note," James Sanks Brisbin papers, 1850-1891, Archives West, Orbis Cascade Alliance, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27706 (accessed January 29, 2018). “MG James Sanks Brisbin (1837-1892),” Memorial #5892343, accessed June 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5892343. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ser. 1, vol. 49, pt. 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890), 895. [Unknown] Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) N00016388 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, resident. Married to David Ingles. Resident in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1795. KYR-0001-004-1660. Amanda [Unknown] (Ingles) (Lexington, Kentucky, enslaved woman and freedomseeker) N00016430 1848? Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, enslaved woman. Kentucky native. Enslaved by Parker Bryant in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Resident of Lexington in 1865.

Relationships Familial: Lennie [Unknown] (Lexington, KY, freedom seeker) Social: [Unknown] Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Slavery: Parker B. Bryant (Lexington, Kentucky, farmer and pig semen seller)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 437A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 183B. KYR-0001-004-1795. KYR-0001-004-1660. Henry H. Hadley (Fayette County, KY, captain 119th USCI Perry Co, OH resident) N00016389 1841 1903 Categories: People

Perry County, Ohio, soldier. Ohio native. Son of William Hadley and Jane Hadley. Married to Samantha M. Rose Hadley in Perry County, Ohio, on November 22, 1860. Father of Nettie B. Hadley. Student in Perry County, Ohio, in 1850. Farmer in Perry County in 1860. Served in the United States Army Signal Corps as a private in Washington, D. C., until October 9, 1864. Served in the 119th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain and quartermaster from July 1864, to April 27, 1866. Served as the commandant of Camp of Reception for Colored Recruits for the District of Western Kentucky from January 11, 1865.

Relationships Military: United States Army Military: 119th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Perry County, Salt Lick, p. 319B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Perry County, Salt Lick, p. 308. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, New York, Brooklyn, Kings, Enumeration District: 208, p. 300C. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served the United States Colored Troops: 56th-138th USCT Infantry, 1864-1866, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M319, Roll #RG94-USCT-119-Bx17 and RG94-USCT-119-Bx48misc. "Henry Harrison Hadley (1841-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #19603316, accessed November 19, 2021,https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19603316. _Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 150: 1919, p. 34. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Perry County Marriages, 1858-1867, Film #000910670, p. 122. Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, 1864-1865, A-K, p. 143. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 121861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 95 of appendix. KYR-0001-004-1795. 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). 119th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment O00016382 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, and Camp Nelson, Kentucky. Headquarters in Lexington. Mustered in from January 3, 1865, to June 23, 1865. Mustered out on April 27, 1866. Commander(s): Colonel Charles G. Bartlett.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 92-101. William A. Dobak, Freedom by the Sword: the U. S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867, (Washington, D. C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2011), 475. KYR-0001-004-1795. Captain Hall's Company O00016386 Categories: Organizations

Mentioned by Henry H. Hadley as a unit of U.S. Colored Troops containing the husband of Lennie [Unknown], which left Camp Nelson, Kentucky, in the summer of 1864. Most likely a unit enrolled by Captain Theron E. Hall.

KYR-0001-004-1795. Camp Nelson, Kentucky O00010592 1863 1865 Categories: Organizations

Organized in 1863 near Nicholasville, Kentucky, for the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.). Measured 4,000 acres and contained quartermaster commissary depot, ordnance depot, recruitment center, prison, and hospital in 1865. Third largest U.S. Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) recruiting center in the United States. A "Home for Colored Refugees" at Camp Nelson opened in January 1865. Superintendent(s): Captain Theron E. Hall, Col. Bierbower. Commandant(s): Col. Speed S. Fry, Col Frederick H. Bierbower, Col. James F. Jaquess.

"Camp Nelson" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 158. "Camp Nelson," History and Culture, National Parks Service, accessed April 26, 2019, https://www.nps.gov/cane/learn/historyculture/index.htm. Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002). 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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H'd Qrs 119" U S C I Lexington, Ky. Sirs,

Testimony has been given at this office, concerning the case of one, Lennie (Colored Girl) formerly belonging to Mr Bryant, near this city.

Said girl claims to have left her master on strength of an order issued by Maj Gen'l Palmer freeing the wive's of C'd Soldiers -- She says that she is the wife of a colored Soldier of Capt Hall's Co. who left Camp Nelson last summer.

If she still claims a Colored soldier as her husband. the bearer of this, David Engles. cannot be interfered with by civil law: for harbering the Girl from the reason, that, said order of Genl Palmer

conflicts with civil law on that point.

If he is interfered with by the court. his case shall be represented to Gen'l Brisbin who is in this City immediately. Said Engle's wife had authority from the military at Camp Nelson. to remove the Sick girl. Amand. to her home until the first of May 1865. Amand went to Camp Nelson of her own accord and there got Sick.

I am sirs Your Obt Sevrt H H Hadley Capt 119" U. S. C. I. Lexington Ky

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