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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-0001-006-0079 BR6-102

Franklin, Simpson 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. David Hunt (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and private (C.S.A.)) N00019895 1830? 1879-10 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Sarah Hunt. Married to Susan Lane Hunt. Father of Nancy S. Hunt and John M. Hunt. Laborer in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Farmer in Simpson County in 1860. Served as a private in the 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.). Captured in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 20, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, from July 26, 1863, to August 20, 1863. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois, from August 22, 1863, to March 2, 1865. Transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland, for exchange on March 2, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on May 25, 1865.

Relationships Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) Legal: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Allen Circuit Court Political: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 40A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 862. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 81. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, District 4, p. 199. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994055, Simpson County Births, p. 2. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0022. "G David Hunt (1833-1879)," Find A Grave, Memorial 110524982, accessed May 3, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110524982. Anake A. Harris (Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney and second lieutenant (C.S.A.)) N00019894 1838-01 1901-05-13 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, attorney. Simpson County, Kentucky, native. Son of Henry W. Harris and Elizabeth Harris. Attended school in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in 1850. Attorney in Simpson County in 1860. Served in the 2nd (Duke's) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a sergeant and second lieutenant from June 1, 1862, to June 13, 1865. Captured in Lincoln County, Tennessee, on November 22, 1863. Prisoner of war at Louisville Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky, from December 1, 1863, to December 3, 1863. Prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, from December 3, 1863, to June 13, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on June 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 101B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 406. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin, p. 141. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Nelson County, Lebanon, District 10, p.458A. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0012. "Col. A. A. Harris Dead," Fort Scott Daily Tribune (Fort Scott, Kansas), May 13, 1901, p. 1. "Lieut Anake A. Harris (1838-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 39634999, accessed May 3, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39634999. Jeremiah Ramsey (Sumner County, Tennessee, resident) N00019890 1840? Categories: People

Sumner County, Tennessee, soldier. Tennessee native. Son of George Ramsey and Anna Ramsey. Resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1850. Mustered in as a private in the 2nd Battalion (Biffle's) Tennessee Cavalry (C.S.A.) on September 27, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 15, p. 192B. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0010. George W. Dalton (Simpson County, sheriff) N00005300 1837-01-18 1914-11-04 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, sheriff. Married to Elmedia Dalton. Sheriff in Simpson County in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ellis Harper (Captain, Harper's Partisan Rangers) Legal: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) Legal: Simpson Circuit Court Social: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Social: Arden Richard McClanahan (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Allen Circuit Court

KYR-0001-005-0054. Find A Grave, "George W. Dalton (January 18, 1837-November 4, 1914)," Memorial #54613399, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54613399 (accessed January 22, 2018). William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) N00005294 1805-08-29 1877-04-29 Categories: People

Knoxville, Tennessee, newspaper editor, politician, and seventeenth governor of Tennessee. Wythe County, Virginia, native. Son of Joseph A. Brownlow and Catherine Gannaway Brownlow. Married to Eliza O'Brien Brownlow. Father of Susan Brownlow, John B. Brownlow, James P. Brownlow, Mary Brownlow, Fannie Brownlow, Annie Brownlow, and Caledonia T. Brownlow. Traveling minister from 1826 to 1836. Editor of Brownlow's Whig in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, from 1839 to 1865. Employed William O'Brien, Francis Small, William Neal, and Hannibal Lathan as printers in Knoxville in 1850. Governor of the State of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869.

Relationships Legal: Ellis Harper (Captain, Harper's Partisan Rangers) Political: State of Tennessee Political: Andrew Jackson Fletcher (Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, attorney and Tennessee Secretary of State) Political: Executive Department, Tennessee Political: United States Congress Legal: John Davis (Charged with larceny in Davidson County, Tennessee, in May 1865.) Legal: S.P. Smith (Agent of the State of Tennessee in the requisition of John Davis from Kentucky in 1865.) Political: William N. Smith (Williamson County, Tennessee, farmer and justice of the peace.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Knoxville, p. 107B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, District 1, p. 97. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Knox County, Knoxville Ward 3, p. 378A. "Death of Ex-Senator W.G. Brownlow," The Morristown Gazette (Morristown, TN), May 2, 1877, p. 2. Zella Armstrong, Notable Southern Families, vol. 1 (Chattanooga, TN: The Lookout Publishing Co., 1918), 39-45. "William Gannaway Brownlow (1805-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6842094, accessed April 26, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6842094. William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) N00005301 1816-02-04 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Jones and Mary Young Jones. Married to Mary P. Lewis Jones on May 10, 1838. Father of Virgil A. Jones, Elenora I. Jones, Eugenia A. Jones, and John N. T. Jones. Married to Mary A. Mann Jones on April 14, 1846. Father of James S. Jones, Harriet B. Jones, Elizabeth Jones, and William O. Jones. Studied law under Franklin Gorin in Barren County, Kentucky. Attorney in Barren County in 1837. Attorney in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 4th Judicial District in Simpson County from 1858 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Ellis Harper (Captain, Harper's Partisan Rangers) Legal: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) Legal: Simpson Circuit Court Social: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Social: Arden Richard McClanahan (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Warren Circuit Court Political: Allen Circuit Court Political: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: James M. Vance (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer. Fugitive from justice.) Legal: Alexander McHatton (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Legal: Richard James Oglesby (Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician.) Legal: Hart Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 7B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 133. The Biographical Record of Logan County, Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901), 227-28. Franklin, Kentucky P00005293 Categories: Places

Seat of Simpson County, Kentucky.

36.7223, -86.5772 “Franklin, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 6, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 108-09. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), 354. Simpson County, Kentucky P00005295 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Franklin.

36.7223, -86.5772 “Franklin, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 6, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 272. 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). Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). Lebanon, Tennessee P00019887 Categories: Places

Seat of Wilson County, Tennessee.

36.2081, -86.2911 Frank Burns, Wilson County (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1983), 22. "Lebanon, Tennessee," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 3, 2023, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Allen Circuit Court O00000339 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. B. Jones. Clerk(s): John E. Moore and Robert F. Pulliam.

“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. 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. Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky 1865-09-23 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

Franklin Simpson County Ky 23d Septr 1865. Gov Bramlette, Dear Sir,

I enclose you copies of two Indictments pending in the Allen cCrcuit Court one against David Hunt, The other against A A Harris and Jerry Ramsey.

I wish a requisition on the governor of Tennessee for the arrest of the defts in both cases, Hunt can be arrested any time at the Hermitage near Nashville, Harris can be arrested at Lebanon Ten, and Ramsey is a fugitive somewhere in Tennessee.

I would Suggest that Geoge W Dalton of Franklin Ky be appointed agent of the governor to receive the criminals. I suggest this for the reasons 1st that Dalton is a true and good man is Sheriff of Simpson County, and understands his business. 2d It is more Convenient, to the Authorities in Tennessee to deliver them at Franklin on the railroad

3d Sheriff Dalton has the Bench warrants in both cases, to execute, and has bench warrants against Harris & Hunt each in another case which he desires to execute. Send requisitions to me. I will forward to Gov Brownlow, with Information of the residence of Harris & Hunt

Your friend Wm B Jones Atty for the Comth,

Requisition upon Gov Tennessee & G. W. Dalton apptd Agent 3 Oct 1865