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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-0001-005-0100 BR7-162 to BR7-163

Harrodsburg, Mercer 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. Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) N00006068 1838-03-17 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, shoemaker, jailer, and police judge. Married to Parellee Gabhart Bowen. Father of Sallie Bowen. Shoemaker in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed George Walton as an apprentice in Mercer County in 1860. Jailer of Mercer County c1862. Police judge of Mercer County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Charles Alfred Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Helm Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: [Unknown] Bishop (Lieutenant, USCT) Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, p. 547 . Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000191863, Mercer County Marriages, p. 2565. 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), 304. Kenneth W. Noe, "'Disturbers of the Peace': The Kidnapping of John D. Hale and the Long Civil War in Kentucky," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Volume 117, Number 2, Spring 2019, p. 277. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #22360. KYR-0001-005-0100. Jefferson Robards (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer ) N00005389 1804? 1882-09-03 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza J. Robards. Father of Louisa F. Robards, Lewis Robards, Robert Robards, and Jefferson Robards. Farmer in Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Proctor (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer.) Social: John A. Wornacut (Mercer County, KY, grand juror) Social: William S. Sallee (Mercer County Farmer) Social: Sidney S. McFatridge (Mercer County, KY, farmer & sheriff) Social: John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) Social: William M. Tomlinson (Mercer County, KY, physician and farmer) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Social: Lorenzo Hobbs Noble (Lebanon, Marion Co, Kentucky, attorney & commonwealth's atty) Social: James Taylor (Mercer County, KY, attorney) Social: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 219A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 738. Find A Grave, "Jefferson Robards (1804-1882)," Memorial #44036929, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44036929 (accessed October 10, 2019). [Unknown] Bishop (Lieutenant, USCT) N00006590 Categories: People

Lieutenant for a detachment of United States Colored Troops.

Relationships Military: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Legal: Charles Alfred Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Helm Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Military: United States Army Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia)

KYR-0001-005-0100. Thomas Helm Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) N00005388 1844-07-29 1912-12-12 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace. Anderson County, Kentucky native. Son of James D. Hardin and Susan Withers Hardin. Married to Mary G. Hardin. Father of Sue Hardin, Hallie A. Hardin, and Phil Thompson Hardin. Justice of the peace in Mercer County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Legal: Jefferson Robards (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, County Harrodsburg, p. 9. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016149, Mercer County Deaths, p. 94. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 40. KYR-0001-005-0100. John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) N00006072 1817-09-13 1900-09-25 Categories: People

Carlinville, Illinois, attorney, politician, and soldier. Eagle Creek, Kentucky, native. Married to Malinda Ann Neely Palmer. Attorney in Carlinville, Illinois, in 1840. Delegate to the Illinois State Constitutional Convention in 1847. Member of the Senate of the State of Illinois from 1852 to 1854. Delegate to the National Republican Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Presidential elector for the State of Illinois to the Republican ticket of 1860. Delegate to the Peace Convention in Washington, D.C., on February 4th, 1861. Served in the 14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel, brigadier general, and major general from 1861 to 1866. Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to command the Department of Kentucky from February 1865.

Relationships Military: Department of Kentucky Military: United States War Department Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: United States Army

George T. Palmer, A Conscientious Turncoat: The Story of John M. Palmer, 1817-1900. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941). John M. Palmer, Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Ernest Life. (Cincinnati: R. Clarke Co., 1901). "John McCauley Palmer," Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography (1600-1889), vol. 4, 640. "John McAuley Palmer (1817-1900)," Find a Grave, Memorial #5895174, accessed July 20, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5895174/john-mcauley-palmer. Harrodsburg, Kentucky P00000555 Categories: Places

Seat of Mercer County, Kentucky.

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. 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). Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky 1865-09-09 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 "2": 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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Harrodsburg Ky Sept 9th 1865 Gov T. E. Bramblett Dear Sir

At an Election held in Harrodsburg on Monday 7th day of August 1865. I was elected Police Judge of Harrodsbg I received my commission and have been sworn in, On wednesday 6th day of ^Sept^ 1865 M. V Bowen who is a Policeman came to me, and asked for a warrant against John D Hale who had drawn a pistol on J Roberds I issued the warrant and to day he made the following return. "Not executed because Lieutenant Bishop commanding a company of Negroes in Harrodsburg ordered me not to arrest John D Hale, this 9th day of September 1865"

M. V Bowen "J, M, C,"

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I send you a copy of the warrant what must I do? Must the Civil give way to the Military Law,

Very Respectfully T. H. Hardin. P. J. T H,

P, S. Please let me know by return mail what course I had best persue

T H H,

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Frankfort Sept. 12th 1865 Maj Genl Palmer Comdg &C Louisville K-150-D K Vol-8-1865 Genl

I forward you the letter of the police Judge of Harrodsburg together with copy of the wnt &C ~ J D Hale.

Hale is a bad man -- desperado & suspected of belonging to a band of outlaws. These unlawful and unwarrantable interferences by subordinate officers- give cause of just complaint; and constitute the material from which capital is made by the rebellious part of the Community. A prompt arrest and and punishment of some of them for such interference with the due and proper course of Civil law will remove much of the complaints of the country -- and restore the proper degree of confidence in the authorities of the country

Thos E Bramlette Gov of Ky