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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-0001-005-0150 BR7-362

Clay 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. Jacob Giltner (Clay County, Kentucky, murderer) N00005431 Categories: People

Mentioned in a petition from J. S. M. Dickinson to Thomas E. Bramlette for murdering William Clark in Clay County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Clay Circuit Court

KYR-0001-005-0134. KYR-0001-005-0149. Andrew H. Clark (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and lt col/colonel 47th Ky Mtd Inf (U.S.A.)) N00007296 1835 Categories: People

Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William Clark. Farmer in Owsley County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 1861 to February 22, 1863. Served in the 47th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 20, 1863, to December 26, 1864.

Relationships Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Jacob Giltner (Clay County, Kentucky, murderer) Social: Elisha B. Treadway (Owsley County, Kentucky, carpenter, sheriff, capt & maj 7th KY Inf USA; maj 3 Forks Battalion USA) Social: McKinley Maloney (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 3 Forks Batt Capital Guards) Military: Henry J. Clark (Jackson County, Kentucky, farmer and 7th KY Inf USA pvt, corp, 1st sgt, capt) Military: Peter Hinkle (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieut & capt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: William A. Dozier (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Samuel "Hampton" Flanery (Jackson County, Kentucky, farmer and sgt & lieut 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas H. Wilson (Jackson County, Kentucky, merchant; sgt, lieut, & capt 7th KY Inf USA) Military: William W. Watkins (Whitley County, Kentucky, pvt & commissary sgt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: William H. Jackson (Laurel County, Kentucky, blacksmith, QM and first lieut. 7th Ky Inf. USA) Military: Theophilus Toulmin Garrard (Clay County, Ky, farmer, commissioner, Ky rep & senator, and general (U.S.A.)) Military: Thomas H. Barnes (Irvine, Kentucky, student and soldier.) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, p.307. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owsley County, Booneville, p. 322A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 459-60. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 440. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 482. Clay County, Kentucky P00000570 Categories: Places

County in Kentucky. Seat at Manchester.

Relationships Legal: Jacob Giltner (Clay County, Kentucky, murderer)

37.1738, -83.7199 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 59. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Clay County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 23, 2019). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00007295 1863-10 1865-04-12 Categories: Organizations

Organized in October 1863 and mustered out in April 1865. Commander(s): Colonel A. H. Clark.

Frederick Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, (Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1211. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 459. Clay County, Kentucky Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Clay county Kentucky To his excellency the Govenor of the state of Ky Dear Govenor

enclosed you will find a copy of the indictment against Jac Col, Jacb Giltner, together waith the petition of the county Judge of Clay County, asking for a reward by your excellency for the apprehension of said Col, Jacob Giltner, who so cruelly Murdered my Father. i hope you will consider the application for reward favorably

Respectfully your obt serv

A, H, Clarklate Col, 47th Ky.