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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-0001-005-0072 BR7-114 to BR7-115

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. Caleb Stinson (Grayson County, Kentucky, politician) N00001148 1810-01-11 1865-07-24 Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, politician. South Carolina native. Married to Lydia Ann Day Stinson. Father of Squire Stinson, Charles W. Stinson, Harriet Stinson Wilson, Amos Stinson, Lydia A. Stinson House, William J. Stinson, Austin Stinson, American Ann Stinson Crawford, and Debbie Stinson. Served as founding commissioner for the Caneyville and Cloverport Turnpike Road Company in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Grayson County in 1860. Represented Grayson County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Assassinated by B. F. Dewees after giving a pro-amendment political speech in 1865.

Relationships Military: William Bates (Grayson County Home Guard) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 78. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 4. Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 295-296. "An Act to Incorporate the Caneyville and Cloverport Turnpike Road Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 2 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Lewis Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 293. Find A Grave, "Caleb Stinson (January 11, 1810-July 24, 1865)," Memorial #23202291, https://findagrave.com/memorial/23202291, (accessed March 3, 2017). Benjamin Franklin Dewees (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004748 1832 1889 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Ohio County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Caleb Stinson (Grayson County, Kentucky, politician)

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), Ohio County, KY, July 1863, p. 15, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Find A Grave, “Benjamin Franklin Dewees (1832-1889),” Memorial #5130962, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5130962 (accessed June 5, 2017). Squire Stinson (Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005333 1831? Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Grayson County native. Married to Elizabeth Shain on March 15, 1853. Father of Mary Jane Stinson, Harriet M. Stinson, Laura Stinson, Dellie Stinson, Bettie Stinson, and Jimie Stinson. Farmer in Grayson County in 1860 and 1863.

Relationships Legal: Benjamin Franklin Dewees (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Caleb Stinson (Grayson County, Kentucky, politician) Familial: Caleb Stinson (Grayson County, Kentucky, politician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson, p. 75. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Roll #unknown, Grayson County Marriages, p. unknown. 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), Grayson County, KY, July 1863, p. 41, (Accessed via ancestry.com). 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. Grayson County, Kentucky LOSER P00004746 Categories: Places

Seat at Leitchfield, Kentucky.

37.4801, -86.3782 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 124. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-07-21 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": 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 "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Office of the Chief of Police, Louisville, Ky., July 21 1865 To his Excellency JnoThos. F. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

On the afternoon of the 20th inst, Hon Caleb Stinson Ex Representative of the Legislature from Grayson Co was foully way laid & murdered mortally wounded by B. F. Dewees of same county The only reason alleged for the act was the fear of Mr Stinson's exposing some rascality of said Dewees and bringing him to Justice- If it would please your Excellency to offer the customary reward for the apprehension

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of the Murderer, it would no doubt facilitate his capture --

Said Dewees is ^about. 32 years old^ five feet ten inches high -- red hair blue eyes, ^no whiskers^ sandy complexion had the end of his nose bitten off some years ago -- ^is^ weighs about 180 lbs --

very Respectfully Squire Stinson

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Reward $300, B. F. Dewoees $300, offered 24 July/65