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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-0001-006-0032 BR6-34

Lancaster, Garrard 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. 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. 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. Benjamin M. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00019696 1837-12-02 1899 Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Burdett and America Letcher Samuel Burdett. Household owned twenty-eight enslaved persons in Garrard County, Kentucky in 1850. Farmer in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned seventeen enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860. Resident of Gerrard County in 1863. Farmer in Garrard County in 1864. Attorney in Garrard County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Robert Harrison (Livingston County, Missouri, farmer, soldier, and detective.) Legal: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 218B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 698. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 25A. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 5, Garrard County, Kentucky, 1863, p. 85. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 6, Garrard County, Kentucky, 1864, p. 33. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century(Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), pp.216-7. "B. M. Burdett (1837-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial 190257046, accessed April 4, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190257046. Henri F. Middleton (Shelby County, Kentucky, newspaper editor) N00013400 1813? 1878-09-11 Categories: People

Shelby County, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Virginia native. Married to Mary F. Middleton. Father of Mary A. R. Middleton and John N. H. Middleton. Newspaper editor in Shelby County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Newspaper editor in Shelby County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860.

Relationships Economic: The Weekly Shelby News Social: Otho W. Harding (Shelby County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: The Commonwealth

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 296B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 248. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 273B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville, p. 397B. "H. F. Middleton (1813-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 144499947, accessed April 6, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144499947. Lancaster, Kentucky P001842 Categories: Places

Seat of Garrard County, Kentucky.

37.6195, -84.578 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 165. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Lancaster, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 23, 2020). 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). Chillicothe, Missouri P00019698 Categories: Places

Place. Seat of Livingston County, Missouri. Located on the Grand River.

39.7953, -93.5524 "Chillicothe, Missouri," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed April 4, 2023, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Missouri P00001883 Categories: Places

State in the central United States. Capital at Jefferson City, Missouri. Located on the Mississippi River.

38.5767, -92.1735 “Jefferson City, Missouri," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 18, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Milton D. Rafferty and Edwin J. Westermann, "Missouri," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Missouri-state. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky 1864-03-07 Correspondence English 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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Lancaster Ky March 7th 1864 To His Excellency Governor Thos E. Bramlette:

I send you a copy of the indictment agt James H. Smith and the warrant for his arrest. Mr Robert Harrison of Chillicothie Missouri is the man I want commissioned as this states agent to receive and bring Smith to this state. I want you to offer a reward of $500. if you can consestently if you cannot offer that amount you will please say to Mr Harrison in your letter to him that I will pay him the difference between your offer and the $500. Please forward the requisition immediately as I deem it important to secure Smith arrest.

Respectfully B M Burdett

P.S.

Ask the editor of the Commonwealth not to publish the reward for two weeks from the time you start requisition

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Missouri Requisition for Jas H. Smith

Order that a Reward of $300 ifbe offered send coms as directed & with the offer of Mr Burdett.

T. E Bramlette 8th March 1864