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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-0001-005-0092 BR7-152 to BR7-153

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. Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) N00005364 1835? Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, silversmith, soldier, and saloon owner. Native of England. Son of Edward Baker, Sr. Silversmith in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served as a private in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A) from October 9, 1861 to July 28, 1862. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Sacramento, Kentucky, on December 28, 1861. Discharged on account of medical disability on July 28, 1862. Saloon owner in Caldwell County in 1865.

Relationships Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Caldwell Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell, Princeton, p. 107. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0474. KYR-0001-005-0091. Hylan Benton Lyon (Caldwell County, KY, Confederate General) N00005365 1836-02-22 1907-04-25 Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier. Caldwell County native. Son of Matthew Lyon and Elizabeth Maria Lyon. Ward of Frederick Henry Skinner. Married to Grace Lyon. Father of Hugh F. Lyon. Resident of Caldwell County in 1850. Attended the Masonic University in LaGrange, Kentucky, and Cumberland College at Princeton, Kentucky. Graduate of West Point in 1856. Owned ten enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 2nd Artillery as a brevet 2nd lieutenant. Served in the 3rd Artillery as a second lieutenant until April 30, 1861. Resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Regiment of Infantry (C.S.A.) as captain. Served in the 8th Kentucky Infantry (C.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel. Promoted to brigadier general in June 1864 and assumed command of the Department of Western Kentucky on October 27, 1864.

Relationships Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Political: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Social: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District no. 1, p. 329A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 415B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, District no. 1, p. 8C John H. Eicher and David J Eicher, Civil War High Commands (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), 357. The United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 45 (Part I), 1894, 803-806. Find A Grave, “BG Hylan Benton Lyon (February 22, 1836-April 25, 1907),” Memorial #8929, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8929 (accessed June 5, 2017). Coffman, Edward M. "MEMOIRS OF HYLAN B. LYON BRIGADIER GENERAL, C.S.A." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 18, no. 1 (1959): 35-53. http://www.jstor.org.berea.idm.oclc.org/stable/42621748. Robert H. King (3rd Kentucky Cavalry) N00005366 1866-06-09 Categories: People

Kentucky colonel. First Lieutenant, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and brevetted Colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) from September 4, 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Hylan Benton Lyon (Caldwell County, KY, Confederate General) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 69. Find A Grave, “LTC Robert H. King (unknown-June 9, 1866),” Memorial #117285219, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117285219 (accessed June 5, 2017). 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. 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. 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005367 1861-12-13 1865-07-15 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 13, 1861. Mustered out of service on July 15, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel James S. Jackson and Colonel Eli H. Murray.

Relationships Military: Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Lewis Wolfley (Campbell County, Kentucky, major) Military: James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician)

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 3 (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1191. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 63-80. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-11-10 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": 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 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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LouisvilleNovr 10th 1865 To his Excellency Governor Bramlette Frankfort Ky. Sir

Permit me to introduce to your notice Edward Baker a most brave & gallant Soldier formerly a member of my Regt, who was seriously and permanently injured for life while Serving in the army, being wounded no less than five times, Your Excellency will see from Mr Baker's papers that there have been several indictments found against him for keeping what is termed a Jenny Lind Table, and allowing minors to play upon it, of which the said Baker pleads innocent of, and from my accquaintance and personal knowledge of the character of said Baker, I am satisfied he is not guilty as charged in the indictments over

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I therefore earnestly recommend said Baker to your Excellency's consideration for executive clemency, he not being able to defend the suits, having lost all his money & property last December by Gen Lyon's raid, I have the honor to subscribe myself your Excellency's

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R. H. King late Lt Col 3rd Ky Cavalry