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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0042 BR7-93 to BR7-94

Jefferson County, Kentucky Philip Breckner () N00006020 Categories: People

Served in the 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.

Relationships Military: 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney)

KYR-0001-005-0042. William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co) N00006022 Categories: People

Served in the 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Indicted by the Jefferson Circuit Court and was fugitive from justice.

Relationships Military: 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Philip Breckner () Social: Philip Breckner () Legal: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) Military: United States Army

KYR-0001-005-0042. KYR-0001-004-1353 KYR-0001-004-1332 David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) N00005180 1822? 1866-04-27 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, butcher. Native of Germany. Father of John Schroeder. Accused of stealing a cow in Louisville, Kentucky in 1861. Found guilty of stabbing with intent to kill along with son John in Jefferson County, Kentucky on September 7, 1863. Butcher in Louisville, Kentucky in 1866.

Relationships Familial: John Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Joseph Kremer (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker and private (U.S.A.)) Legal: George F. Huber (Louisville, Kentucky) Legal: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Social: Nicholas Oerther (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: Christ Kronmueller Sr. ( Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Jacob Wurtele (Louisville, Kentucky, gardener) Social: Philip Tomppert (Louisville, Kentucky, mayor) Social: Elijah W. Rutledge (Louisville, Kentucky, postmaster) Social: Samuel Matlack (Louisville, Kentucky, magistrate and soldier.) Social: H. W. Hinman (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Timothy Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Michal Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky) Social: John Sullivan (Louisville, Kentucky, private watchman) Social: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Social: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Frederick G. Dannecker (Louisville Lawyer) Social: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Legal: Andrew Dora (person in Jefferson County) Legal: William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co) Social: William Salzman (12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry; indicted in Jefferson Co)

KYR-0001-005-0003. KYR-0001-004-1332. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll 7007126, X County Deaths, p. 19. John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006024 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Partner in the law firm of Greene & Mattingly with Isaac R. Greene in Louisville in 1865.

Relationships Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist)

Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 435. 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). Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). City of Louisville O001028 1851 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the city of Louisville, Kentucky.

Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky., Approved March 24, 1851, With All the Amendments to Same now In Force, and Acts of the Legislature Pertaining to the City of Louisville to this Date. December 1, 1862 (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862). Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) 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: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00006021 1861-09-20 1864-09-28 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Hamilton, Ohio. Mustered in on September 20, 1861 and mustered out August 26 to September 28, 1864.

Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1513. Jefferson Circuit Court O001000 1850 Categories: Organizations

Part of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky. Serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, with courthouse at Louisville. Judge(s): Peter B. Muir, George W. Johnston. Commonwealth's Attorney(s): Edwin S. Craig, James R. Dupuy. Clerk(s): James P. Chambers

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. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough, & Deved, pub., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00006023 1862-03-01 1866-02-15 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Niles, Michigan, Dowagiac, Michigan, and Buchanan, Michigan between December 9, 1861 and March 1, 1862. Mustered in on March 5, 1862 and mustered out on February 15, 1866.

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1286-1287. Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-11-05 Legal/Financial 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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State of Kentucky Jefferson County

Philip Breckneron his oath says, that he is now a resident of the city of Louisville living on Grayson between sixth and seventh Streets and that he has been lately discharged from the Military service of the United States into which he had enlisted and had served three years and three months in Company E. 35th Ohio Volunteers that he had resided for about three years in the city of Louisville prior to such enlistment. Affiant was at during all that time well acquainted with William Salzman of Louisville, the same person who was indicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court and for whom David Schroeder went bail and he states from his own knowledge that the sd Salzman is a soldier in the service of the United States and a member of the 12th Michigan Volunteers. Affiant has seen the sd Salzman in the service as a soldier as aforesaid and had conversed with him, not knowing that the sd Salzman was indicted and a fugitive from justice. The sd Salzman was at the time of the sd interview stationed in Nashville Tennessee which is now about six months since.

Philip

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 5th day of November 1864.

John N. Mattingly Notary Public Jeff Co Ky

JOHN N. MATTINGTLY NOTARY PUBLIC JEFFERSON COUNTY, KY.