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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, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-006-0010 BR6-10

Fort Delaware, Delaware Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) N00007342 1825 1885-03-26 Categories: People

Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent. Ontario County, New York, native. Married to Rebecca Sprague Stager on November 14, 1847. Father of Emma L. Stager, Anna Stager, Charles Stager, and Ellen S. Stager. Printer in Rochester, New York, in 1841 under telegraph pioneer Henry O'Reilly. Telegraph operator in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1846. Telegraph clerk in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Telegraph superintendent for the New York and Mississippi Valley Company in Cincinnati in 1852. Telegraph Superintendent of Western Union Telegraph Company in Cleveland in 1860. Organized the U.S. military telegraph lines under General George B. McClellan. Commissioned a captain and assistant quartermaster from November 1861. Appointed chief of the United States Military Telegraph by the Secretary of War. Promoted to colonel and aide-de-camp during the war. Breveted brigadier general and mustered out in September 1865.

Relationships Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company Economic: Norvin Green (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer and Louisville, Kentucky, telegraph executive.) Economic: Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) Familial: Western Union Telegraph Company

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, 10th Ward, p. 121B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, 2nd Ward, p. 301. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 3rd Ward, p. 331. "Gen. Anson Stager Dying: The Busy Career of the Prominent Western Electrician," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 23, 1885, p. 1. "Gen. Stager's Funeral," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 29, 1885, p. 9. A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, vol.2 (Chicago: The A. T. Andreas Company, 1885), 126. Find A Grave, "Anson Stager (1825-1885)," Memorial #68017391, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68017391/anson-stager (accessed March 6, 2018). Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) N00007357 1804? 1863-02-27 Categories: People

Rochester, Monroe County, New York, attorney and telegraph officer. Otsego County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth H. Gold Elwood on June 14, 1849. Father of Frank W. Elwood, Agnes R. Elwood, and Elizabeth H. Elwood. Resident of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1850. Attorney in Rochester in 1860. Secretary of the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Treasurer and Secretary of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 188A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 5th Ward, p. 11. "The Death of Isaac R. Elwood, Esq.," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), March 2, 1863, p. 2. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 53, John Reynolds Totten, ed. (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922), 7-8. "Isaac Russell Elwood (1800-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6761628, accessed April 11, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6761628. Ephraim L. Van Winkle (Pulaski Co, KY, attorney & Sec. State) N001777 1827-07-20 1866-05-23 Categories: People

Pulaski County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and statesman. Wayne County, Kentucky, native. Son of Micajah Van Winkle and Mary Phillips Van Winkle. Married to Ellen Eliza Phillips Van Winkle. Father of Milton E. Van Winkle, Mary E. Van Winkle, Lucy A. Van Winkle, and Betty Van Winkle. Attended the Monticello Academy in Wayne County, Kentucky. Graduate of the Louisville School of Law in 1850. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Wayne County in 1855. Commonwealth's attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in 1856. State elector for Constitutional Union Party candidate John Bell in 1860. Attorney in Pulaski County in 1860. Employed James Cowan as a day laborer in Pulaski County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Pulaski County in 1860. Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to May 23, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division No. 2, p. 242B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 155. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset District 1, p. 195A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Pulaski County, KY, July 1863, p. 163. "Ephraim Van Winkle," Office of the Kentucky Secretary of State, accessed September 22, 2021, https://web.sos.ky.gov/ofx/secsofstate?id=39. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls 994057, Wayne County Births. Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and) N00014190 1824? Categories: People

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Eli Nichols, Sr. Married to Elizabeth J. Blanks Nichols in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in December 1852. Married to Martha J. Rice Nichols in Webster County in November 1865. Father of Angeline Nichols, Mildred A. Nichols, and Joana Nichols. Farmer in Caldwell County in 1850. Served in the 10th Kentucky (Johnson's) Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from June 29, 1862, to August 1, 1862. Served in Captain Byrne's Company, Kentucky Horse Artillery (C.S.A.) as a private from August 1, 1862, to June 6, 1863. Reported as deserted and captured in Barren County on June 6, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, and Fort Delaware, Delaware, from July 8, 1863, to February 10, 1864. Transferred to Crittenden County, Kentucky to stand trial on a charge of robbery on February 10, 1864.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Durin Clark Lamb (Caldwell co. farm laborer and student ) Social: Andrew Jackson Lamb (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Albin Francisco Schoepf (U.S. Army soldier) Legal: Crittenden Circuit Court Legal: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Legal: Mannering Towery (Crittenden County, KY, farmer) Military: Albin Francisco Schoepf (U.S. Army soldier) Legal: George H. Towery (Crittenden County, KY, farmer) Legal: Fort Delaware

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 355B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Tennessee, p. 523A. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film 000546372, p. 28. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Webster County Marriages, Film 000568132. Albin Francisco Schoepf (U.S. Army soldier) N00019669 1822-03-01 1886-05-10 Categories: People

Washington, D.C, soldier. Native of Poland. Married to Julia Kesley Schoepf. Father of Lillie Schoepf, Albin F. Schoepf, Joseph Schoepf, and William Schoepf. Patent office clerk in Washington, D.C, in 1860. Served in the United States Army as a brigadier general from September 30, 1861 to January 15, 1866. Commander of Fort Delaware from April 25, 1863, to January 1, 1866.

Relationships Military: Fort Delaware

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, D.C., Ward 3, p. 813. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Ward 5, p. 81B. Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 865. Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 424-25. W. Emerson Wilson, Fort Delaware (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1957), 14. "Albin Francisco Schoepf (1822-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 4908, accessed March 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4908. Cleveland, Ohio P00007358 Categories: Places

Seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Located on Lake Erie. Located at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.

41.4993, -81.6944 "Cleveland" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Cleveland-Ohio) (accessed March 6, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Cleveland, Ohio," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 17, 2020). Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. Rochester, New York P00007359 Categories: Places

City in Monroe County, New York. Located at the mouth of the Genesee River. Located on Lake Ontario.

43.161, -77.6109 "Kenton County" in The Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter R. Eisenstadt, ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 1316-18. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Rochester, New York," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 17, 2020). New York P001007 Categories: Places

State in the northeast United States. Capital at Albany. Located on the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

42.6526, -73.7562 Alan K. Campbell and Paul Joseph Scudlere, "New York," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-state. "Albany, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 22, 2017, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Fort Delaware P00001381 Categories: Places

Union Prison located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River near Delaware City, Delaware. Housed Confederate prisoners of war and political prisoners.

39.5785, -75.5874 Laura M. Lee and Brendan Mackie, Fort Delaware (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010). Western Union Telegraph Company O00007356 1856 Categories: Organizations

Founded in 1856, following the consolidation of various regional telegraph companies operated by the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Company and the acquisition of Samuel Morse's telegraph patent. Created the first transcontinental telegraph service in the nation. Founder: Ezra Cornell.

Relationships Economic: Anson Stager (Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., telegraph superintendent) Economic: Isaac Russell Elwood (Rochester, New York, attorney and telegraph treasurer and secretary) Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: South-western Telegraph Company Economic: Benjamin James Adams (Louisville merchant) Economic: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Economic: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Economic: George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) Economic: John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) Economic: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Economic: Larz Anderson (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio attorney) Economic: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Robert MacDougall, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Fort Delaware, Delaware 1863-11-02 Telegram 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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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY,

NO. 1.] TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON WHICH MESSAGES ARE RECEIVED BY THIS COMPANY FOR TRANSMISSION.

The public are notified that, in order to guard against mistakes in the transmission of messages, every message of importance ought to be repeated, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received, to the station from which it is originally sent. Half the usual price for transmission will be charged for repeating the message; and while this Company will, as heretofore, use every precaution to ensure correctness, it will not be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of repreated messages, beyond an amount exceeding five hundred times the amount paid for sending the message; nor will it be responsible for mistakes or delays in the transmission of unrepeated messages from whatever cause they may arise, nor for delays arising from interruptions in the working of its Telegraphs, nor for any mistake or omission of any other Company, over whose lines a message is to be sent to reach the place of destination. All messages will hereafter be received by this Company for transmission, subject to the above conditions.

A. STAGER, Gen. Sup't, Cleveland, Ohio.

I. R. ELWOOD, Sec'y, Rochester, N. Y.

Nov 2 186 To E. L. Vanwinkle By Telegraph from Fort Delaware 1863

Ned Nichols is here. He will be delivered to State Authorties if sent for

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