<title type="main">R. Vance to Daniel W. Lindsey

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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-0001-005-0045 BR7-90

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) N00005274 Categories: People

Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Charged with murdering James L. Clark. Appears in a letter from R. Vance to Daniel W. Lindsey in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 5, 1864.

KYR-0001-005-0045. Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) N00005275 1833? Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850.

Relationships Social: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins, District 1, p. unknown. William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) N00005276 1840? Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Resident in Hopkins County in 1850.

Relationships Social: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Social: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins, District 1, p. 90B. James L. Clark (Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005278 1832-05-08 1864-03-25 Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Clark. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry)

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), Hopkins County, KY, July 1863, p. 5, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "James Lafayette Clark (May 8, 1832-March 25, 1864)," Memorial #155657715, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155657715 (accessed May 8, 2018). Richard Vance (Provost Marshal) N00005279 Categories: People

Provost Marshal for the Military District of Kentucky.

KYR-0001-005-0045. Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) N00000873 1835-10-04 1917-08-04 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Son of Thomas N. Lindsey. Married to Catherine McIlavain Fitch Lindsey. Father of Antoinette Dumesnill Lindsey, Thomas Noble Lindsey, Jr., Henry Fitch Lindsey, Daniel Weisiger Lindsey, Jr, and Catherine F. Lindsey. Educated by B. B. Sayre in Frankfort, Kentucky. Graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1854. Attorney with Thomas N. Lindsey in Frankfort. Graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1857. Member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Masonic Lodge in Frankfort. Captain in the Kentucky State Guard in 1861. Appointed as chief of staff to General Thomas L. Crittenden in September 1861. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a Colonel from 1861 to 1863. Inspector general of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Adjutant general of Kentucky from August 1, 1864 to 1867.

Relationships Military: Charles Hayden (Frankfort, Kentucky, clerk and soldier) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Legal: Military District of Kentucky Military: James Lawson (Mercer County, KY, captain, Hall's Gap Battalion) Military: Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Emory B. Harlan (Ohio, lieut & assist adj general of Second Division, 49th Illinois Inf) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: James Reynolds (1st lieutenant, 10th Kentucky Infantry (Co. A)) Military: George B. Baum (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Military: Daniel W. Suddarth (Assistant surgeon, Capital Guard Regiment) Political: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: John L. Lamb (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Douglas Jones (Union County, laborer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Houston L. Keesee (Union County, farmer and soldier) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Henry E. Reynolds (private in 2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: Capital Guard Regiment Military: Albert Bayless (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Kentucky State Militia Familial: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: William J. Aulsebrook (Louisville, Kentucky, painter and private Frankfort Battal Cap Guard (U.S.A.)) Military: George Trulove (Trimble County, Kentucky, resident and private (U.S.A.)) Military: Arthur J. Harrington (Jefferson County, KY, printer and soldier) Economic: Kentucky State Militia Economic: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: H. C. Burriss (Kentucky) Military: [Unknown] Thomas (Colonel incarcerated in Louisville Military Prison, ) Military: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 57th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Columbus B. Saunders (Nicholasville, Kentucky, resident and lieutenant colonel) Military: James C. Guess (Fredonia, Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier) Political: United States War Department Political: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician ) Military: United States War Department Military: 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Political: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Legal: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Political: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Military: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Political: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Political: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Political: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Department of the Cumberland Political: Oliver Otis Howard (Major General (U.S. Army) and Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) Political: Clinton Bowen Fisk (St. Louis, Missouri, Brevet Major General (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) Political: John Brennan (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk; capt & maj 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Political: John J. Hawes (Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, attorney, judge advocate + capt. 1st Ky Lt.Art.) Political: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Political: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA) Military: Frederick Slater, Jr. (Dearborn County, Indiana, merchant and soldier - major, 11th Ky. Cav) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Department of the Gulf Military: 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Charles H. Edwards (Kentucky soldier - 11th Kentucky Cavalry) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Thomas W. Hewitt (Frankfort, Kentucky, medical student and surgeon (U.S.A.). ) Military: Solomon B. Bennett (Wayne County, Tennessee, farm laborer and soldier) Military: Howard Warren (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Military: Tennis W. Wade (Covington, Kentucky, painter apprentice and soldier. ) Military: Harrison Franklin Davis (Mercer County, Kentucky, farm hand and soldier (U.S.A.) ) Military: William H. Ritchey (Owen County, KY, trader and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: John J. Curtis (Mason County, Kentucky, soldier - 1st. Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Sabritt Scruggs (Washington County, Kentucky, soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: James F. Peyton (Lincoln County, Kentucky, physician and soldier - Surgeon 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Benjamin F. Lewis (Hancock County, Kentucky, soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Joseph M. Willemin (Covington, Kentucky, tailor and soldier) Military: Harry Gee (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Abraham W. Stone (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Solomon Huffman (Dearborn County, IN, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: Joseph Lawson (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District, No 1, p. 237. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 162A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 468. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 126-28. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. “Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (1835-1917),” Find A Grave, Memorial 13775691, accessed February 7, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13775691. 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/. Hopkins County, Kentucky P00002615 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Madisonville.

37.3281, -87.4989 Ann Brown, "Hopkins County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 439-40. "Madisonville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 5, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 144. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Military District of Kentucky O00000273 1863-05-22 1865-01-17 Categories: Organizations

Military district in the Department of the Ohio. Commanders: Jeremiah T. Boyle (1863); Jacob Ammen (1863-1864); Stephen G. Burbridge (1864); Edward H. Hobson (1864); and Stephen G. Burbridge (1864-1865).

Relationships Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Economic: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Economic: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 132-34. 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00001586 1863-10-02 1864-12-29 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Owensboro, Kentucky. Mustered in on October 2, 1863 and mustered out on December 29, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Edmund A. Starling.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 368. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1864-09-05 Correspondence 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.

Head-Quarters District of Kentucky, PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Lexington, Ky., Sept 5" 1864. General,

The General Commanding directs me to say that Privates Ervin Ray, Austin. P. Smith, and William Wilcox. 35" Ky. Inft. Vols, who are now confined in the Hopkins Co. jail, upon the charge of Murdering James. L. Clark. are entitled to trial by Gen'l Court. Martial or Military Commission- He therefore directs me to make a requisition on the Govenor, through your office, for these men, that they may be tried under the 30" section of the Act of Congress, approved March 3" 1863.

I am Gen'l Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt R. Vance Prov. Mor. Genl. Dist of Ky.

Brig Gen'l. D. Lindsey. Inspt Gen'l and Adj't Gen'l Ky Forces

Frankford Ky

Hd. Qrs. Dist. Ky. Pro. Mar.'s Office. Lexington Ky. Sept. 5th 1864.

Vance R. P. M. G. D of. Ky.

Gen. Comd'g directs him to say that Privates Ervin Ray, Austin P. Smith and Wm Wilcox, 35th Ky. Infty in Hopkins Co. Jail on charge of murdering J. L. Clarke- are entitled to tiral by Mil, ^Comn or gen'l^ C -- Martial: He makes requisition on the Gov. for these men, to try them by 30 Sect. Act of Congress. Mch 3rd/63

Recd A. G. O. 6th Sept. 1864.

Requisition issued 6th Sept/64