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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-0001-006-0029 BR6-32

James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) N00004744 1826? Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier. Commissioned in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain on October 2, 1862. Charged with shooting Joshua Burdett in Garrard County on November 17, 1862. Fugitive from justice in February 1863. Commission cancelled on May 20, 1863.

Relationships Legal: Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Garrard County Court Legal: Jas. H. [Hanks] (Garrard County, Kentucky, petitioner) Legal: Seymour Hopper (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Houston Jackman (Garrard County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Robert Elkin (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James W. Grant (Garrard County, Kentucky, dentist) Legal: Richard P. West (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Stephen Mary (Garrard, Co, Ky, petitioner) Legal: Jesse G. Sweeney (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Benjamin F. Duncan (Garrard County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Malcolm Henry Gill (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John S. Gill (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James L. Anderson (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Reid Leslie McMurtry (Garrard County, Kentucky, school teacher and druggist) Legal: James Allen Beazley (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah H. Burnside (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Garrett Elkin (Garrard County, Kentucky, trader) Legal: Walter Cunningham Bailey (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Lewis R. McMurtry (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: James A. Anderson (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John J. Huffman (Garrard County, Kentucky, tavern keeper) Legal: Robert Harrison (Livingston County, Missouri, farmer, soldier, and detective.) Legal: Garrard Circuit Court

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 260. "Telegraphic News," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), November 24, 1862, p. 3. KYR-0001-004-0353. KYR-0001-005-0025. Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) N00004745 1824-04-17 1862-12-11 Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Burdett and America Letcher Samuel Burdett. Married to Edna W. Letcher Burdett in Garrard County on February 26, 1846. Father of William Burdett. Attorney in Garrard County in 1850. Attorney in Lancaster in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1860. Killed by James H. Smith in Garrard County on December 11, 1862.

Relationships Military: Garrard County Home Guard Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Robert Colier (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and capt & maj 7th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 2, p. 288B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Lancaster, p. 643. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 15A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), , pp. 216-7.. "Joshua Burdett (1824-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90653933, accessed September 14, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90653933. KYR-0001-005-0025. Robert Harrison (Livingston County, Missouri, farmer, soldier, and detective.) N00019697 1830? Categories: People

Livingston County, Missouri, farmer, soldier, and detective. Tennessee native. Son of Charles Harrison and Susan Harrison. Married to Susan Cary Harrison in Livingston County, Missouri, on January 22, 1861. Laborer in Livingston County, Missouri in 1850. Farmer in Livingston County in 1860. Served in the 4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private. Appointed detective in the Provost Marshall Department.

Relationships Legal: Benjamin M. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Livingston County, District 51, p. 86B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Livingston County, Green Township, p. 907. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M405, Roll 0848. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Livingston County. State of Missouri O00018723 1821 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Missouri. Capitol at Jefferson City. Governors: Robert Marcellus Stewart (1857-1861), Claibourne Fox Jackson (1861), Hamilton Rowan Gamble (1861-1864), William Preble Hall (1864-1865), Thomas Clement Fletcher (1865-1869).

Relationships Political: William McNeill Clough (Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. ) Legal: Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.)

“Historical Listing of Missouri Governors,” Missouri Secretary of State, accessed October 3, 2022, https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors. Perry McCandless, A History of Missouri: Volume II, 1820-1860, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972), 9-11. Garrard Circuit Court O00000386 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 6th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Thomas E. Bramlette and Fontaine T. Fox. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Ephraim L. Vanwinkle and Michael H. Owsley. Clerk(s): William J. Landrum and W. D. Hopper.

Relationships Legal: Henry Harris (Garrard County, Kentucky, grocer) Legal: John H. Kennedy (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant) Legal: Seymour Hopper (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: Houston Jackman (Garrard County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: James W. Grant (Garrard County, Kentucky, dentist) Legal: Richard P. West (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) Legal: Malcolm Henry Gill (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John J. Huffman (Garrard County, Kentucky, tavern keeper)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. 1864-04-28 Note 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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Missouri Requisition for Jas H. Smith Indicted by the Garrard Cir Ct for the Murder of Joshua Burdett & Robt Harrison appt Agent 28th Apl/64