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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-0001-005-0137 BR7-211 to BR7-212

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 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. Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive) N00003129 1834? Categories: People

Owingsville, Kentucky, grocery keeper and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James L. Warren. Married to Sarah Warren. Father of James Warren and Viola Warren. Laborer in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Grocery keeper in Bath County in 1860. Served in the 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from December 31, 1861, to April 14th, 1862. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from August 16, 1862, to August 30, 1862. Accused of the murder of [Unknown] Adams in Bath County on April 20, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Social: [Unknown] Adams (Letcher co, KY, murder victim in Bath Co) Familial: James L. Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 2nd Division, p. 19B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 2nd Division, p. 304. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Bath, Wyoming, p. 193. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 206-07. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 176, 954. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 85 and Roll 372. KYR-0001-005-0062. Charles R. Smith (Provost Marshal of the 1st District of Ohio) N00005546 1817? Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, provost marshal. Pennsylvania native. Provost marshal of the 1st District of Ohio in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hamilton, Cincinnati Ward 15, p. 96. KYR-0001-005-0137. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Bath County, Kentucky P00000478 Categories: Places

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Owingsville.

38.1058, -83.7199 "Bath County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 60. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bath County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 23, 2019). 1st Military District of Ohio O00005547 Categories: Organizations

Part of the Military District of Ohio that incorporated Cincinnati and areas near the city just north of the Ohio River.

Relationships Military: Charles R. Smith (Provost Marshal of the 1st District of Ohio)

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Confidential, CincinnatiDecr. 22. 1865 To the Honorable the Governor of Kentucky. Dear Sir.

I have the honor to enquire if you have official knowledge of one Wilkins Warren, being a Fugitive from Justice from Bath co. Kentucky where he is charged with the crime of Murder, said to have been committed in the Spring of 1865. If such be the case will ^you^ do me the honor of so informing me and in addition thereto, if such be practicable, please furnish me with the name of the victim, and also of some of his friends. The matter was mentioned to me an hour ago, and I do not desire to move in it until I am aware of its breadth

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and that the criminal is wanted by your authorities. My information is the effect that said Warren can be found and the location has been furnished me.

Will you do me the favor of an early reply.

Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Charles R. Smith Late Deputy Prov. Marshal 1" District of Ohio. Address, Lock Drawer N. 176 Post Office.