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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.
Allen County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Mississippi native. Married to Elizabeth H. Mayhew Hilburn in Allen County, Kentucky, on August 12, 1863. Father of Jennette C. Hilburn. Farmhand in Allen County, Kentucky, in 1860. Attended school in Allen County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Allen County in 1860. Served in the 20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (C.S.A.) as a corporal from June 1, 1861, to February 15, 1862. Served in the 19th Tennessee (Biffle's) Volunteer Cavalry (C.S.A.) from February 15, 1862. Served as a private in the 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Paroled at Gallatin County, Tennessee, on May 9, 1865. Reported as a guerilla of Ellis Harper's Partisan Rangers through October 1865. Indicted for robbery in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1865.
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Tennessee, captain. Enlisted in the 30th Tennessee Infantry and was captured at the Battle of Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862. Escaped at an undetermined date and joined with General John Hunt Morgan, who procured a Captain’s commission for Harper. Harper’s Partisan Rangers were active along the Louisville & Nashville rail line in Confederate territory under occupation by Union forces. Harper and his men surrendered and were paroled on May 9, 1865.
Simpson County, Kentucky, sheriff. Married to Elmedia Dalton. Sheriff in Simpson County in 1865.
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Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician. Oldham County, Kentucky, native. Son of Jacob Oglesby and Isabella Watson Oglesby. Married to Anna E. White Oglesby. Father of Richard Oglesby, Anna Oglesby, Olive Oglesby, and Robert Oglesby. Read law with Silas W. Robinson in Springfield, Illinois, in 1844. Served in the 4th Illinois Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War. Attorney in Macon County, Illinois, in 1847. Attended law school in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1848. Trader in Yuba County, California, in 1850. Attorney in Macon County, Illinois, in 1860. Member of the Senate of the United States from the State of Illinois in 1860. Served in the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel. Served in the United States Army as a brigadier general and major general. Wounded at the Siege of Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi, in 1862. Commanded the 16th Army Corps (U.S.A.) in 1863. Governor of the State of Illinois from January 16, 1865, to January 11, 1869.
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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.
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Seat of Simpson County, Kentucky.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
State in the midwestern region of the United States. Capital at Springfield. Located on the Ohio River and Mississippi River.
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.
Partisan Rangers under the command of Captain Ellis Harper during the Civil War. The group was formed under orders from General John Hunt Morgan after Harper escaped from a Union Army prison following his capture after the Battle of Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862. Made up largely of individuals from Sumner and Robertson counties in northern Tennessee, the group raided Union camps and towns in occupied Tennessee and Kentucky on the railroad between Louisville and Nashville. Disbanded on May 9, 1865 when Harper and other men surrendered and were paroled near Gallatin, Tennessee.
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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).
th Octr 65
I enclose you Copy of Indictment pending in
We Know that Hilburn is in
Respectfully &C.
Requisition upon Gov Illinois for Robt. Hilburn Robbery & Geo' W. Dalton appt d Agent
th Oct/65