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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-0001-004-1983 BR14-124 to BR14-125

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Anne Carson (Jefferson County, Kentucky, washerwoman.) N00017670 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, washerwoman. Washerwoman in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Social: W. O. Brown (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Social: John Miles (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Social: William Carter (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Social: Henry Townsley (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Social: J. Bacon (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Social: W. Howard (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) Legal: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Louisville Police Court

KYR-0001-004-1983. W. Howard (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017661 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. W. O. Brown (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017672 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. J. Bacon (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017662 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. John Miles (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017671 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. Henry Townsley (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017666 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. William Carter (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.) N00017669 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Signed a petition on behalf of Anne Carson in Louisville in 1865.

KYR-0001-004-1983. Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) N00004817 1825? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Robert A. Gailbreath and Mary "Polly" Gailbreath. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1862. Notary public in Louisville in 1862.

Relationships Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 202A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 242. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 260B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film 000482690, p. 23. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862. "Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 4 March 1862, p. 3. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner's Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, (Louisville, KY: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency), 95. Henry C. Russell (Louisville, Kentucky, deputy marshal for Louisville east district) N002033 1813? 1889 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, deputy marshal. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Pilcher Russell in Oldham County, Kentucky, on September 21, 1833. Father of Catherine "Kate" Russell, Eliza Russell, Telitha Augustus Russell Smith, Mary C. Russell Buchanan, Corrilla Russell, Columbus Russell, Lucretia Russell Johnson, Alice Russell, and Fanny Russell. Innkeeper in Oldham County, in 1850. Employed Rich C. Calloway in Oldham County in 1850. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1860. Deputy marshal for the east district of the Louisville City Court in Louisville in 1861.

Relationships Social: John Hopkins Harney (Lou. Democrat publisher) Social: Joshua Fry Bullitt (Louisville. Ct. of Appeals Judge) Social: Charles Freedley (Louisville) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 147B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 264. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 494A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482444, p. 167. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819620, p. 253. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 007723044, p. 51. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 25969. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner, (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. “Society,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 24, 1889, p. 6. KYR-0001-004-0134. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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. Louisville Police Court O00017053 1836 Categories: Organizations

Court presided over by the Police Judge of Louisville, Kentucky. Jurisdiction concurrent with the Jefferson Circuit Court.

Attia Martha Bowmer, "The history of the government of the city of Louisville." Unpublished Dissertation, University of Louisville (1948), p. 47. 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). United States Bureau of Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) O00000740 1863-05-22 Categories: Organizations

Established on May 22, 1863. Approximately 186,000 soldiers enrolled in this bureau during the war. State regiments were organized in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Relationships Military: George H. Travis (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier)

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 383-400. City Work House of Louisville O00012610 1832 1954 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky workhouse. Organized in 1832 to house male and female petty criminals, the poor, "those of bad repute," and those with infectious diseases. Managed by a committee of three trustees and a superintendent, with daily operations overseen by an elected keeper. Superintendent(s): Trustee(s): Keeper(s): M. G. Holmes (1861), James Kirkpatrick (1864).

"Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1. Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky. (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862), 332-36. "Council," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 14, 1864, p. 3. "Louisville City Workhouse," Kentucky Historic Institutions, accessed January 26, 2022, https://kyhi.org/louisville-city-workhouse/. Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police History and Personnel (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 2005), 62. Gary Falk, Louisville Remembered (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009) 112-13. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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His Excellency Thomas, E, Bramlett Governor for Kentucky

Your Petitioner Anne Carson a Free woman of Collor would respectfully represent to your Excellency that she was fined the sum of fifty dollars by the Police Court of Louisville upon the charge of Keeping a disorderly House

She states that the proof before the Jury was conclusive against her But the real facts in the Case was not before the Jury She has three Small Children to suport She is very poor She only can depend upon her labour as a wash woman for support She occupied only One small room on Marchall Street Colored soldiers would call at Her House often intoxicated She was unable to control them being fearful of them they being allways around the neighbourhood in wich she here is filled with Collored people with few exceptions

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The House in which she lives contained five Rooms all the rooms except the front room was Occupied by Collored people she occupied the front room all the inmates of Said House except herself entertaned Collored Soldiers who were often disorderly Pititioner Occupying the front Room was held responsible for all the misconduct of all parties the police believing that petitioner had controll of the whole House which was not true all of which will be sertified by her nieghbours

Pititioner says she is unable to pay said fine except to work the same out in the City work Housewhere her Children must suffer She Prays your Honor to remit her fine and she will ever pray

Ann ^her X mark^ Carson

The neighbours of Ann Carson Join in the truth of foregoing statements

W. Howard W. O. Brown J Bacon John Miles Henry Townsly William Carter

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I appeared for Ann Carson in the Police Court and defended for her the petition containing the facts as regards the proof I believe her statements to be true

J. P. Gailbreath Atty at Law Louis Same

I have Bin acting as city Marshal of Louisvill for some Eight years and stait that this petition is True

Henry C Russell

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Louisville Police Ct vs Petition for Ann Carson

$50, Disorderly House Remit 27 June/65