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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-0001-006-0102 BR6-129 to BR6-130

Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) N00008425 1819-10-30 1904-08-05 Categories: People

Ninth Governor of the state of Wisconsin. Clarendon, New York native. Son of Shubael Lewis and Eleanor Robertson Lewis. Attended Clarkson Academy and Clinton Seminary in New York. Attorney in Columbus, Wisconsin in 1845. Married to Orlina Marion Lewis on July 23, 1846. Elected district attorney, county judge of probate, and member of the state constitutional convention of 1847 to 1848. Elected to the state general assembly in 1852. Elected to the state senate in 1853. Lieutenant governor in Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856. Secretary of state in Wisconsin from 1862 to 1864. Governor of Wisconsin from January 4, 1864 to January 1, 1866.

Relationships Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) Legal: Ephraim Ladd (Campbell County, Kentucky, carpenter and justice of the peace.) Legal: John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner) Legal: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.) Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Oliver W. Root (county attorney) Legal: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Political: Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) Political: State of Wisconsin

J. T. White, The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. XII (New York: James T. White & Company, 1904). 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. Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) N00005429 1817-03-27 1910-03-14 Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, painter and soldier. Madison County, New York, native. Son of Reuben Tifft and Betsy Decolan Tifft. Married to Mary E. Mullen Tifft on May 9, 1846. Father of Mary Tifft, Elizabeth Tifft, Scott D. Tifft, Kate Tifft, and Annie Tifft. Painter in 1845. Served in the 3rd United States Light Artillery (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 10, 1845, to September 10, 1850. Painter in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and captain from December 8, 1861, to October 17, 1864. Discharged on account of disability on October 17, 1864. Charged with with a felony in Campbell County in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Wisconsin in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Oliver W. Root (county attorney) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Jailer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1865.) Legal: Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. ) Legal: James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) Legal: State of Wisconsin Social: John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner) Legal: Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) Legal: John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell, Newport, p. 481. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0364. Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, Roll MIUSA1798102880. _Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 134. "Veteran of Three Wars," The Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, IA), January 22, 1906, p. 5. "Iowa's Oldest Veteran," The Register and Leader (Des Moines, IA), February 4, 1906, p. 3. "Octogenarian Crosses the Bar," The Sanborn Pioneer (Sanborn, IA), March 17, 1910, p. 5. George W. Schee and O.H. Montzheimer, Biographical Data and Army Record of Old Soldiers Who Have Lived in O'Brien Co., Iowa (Primghar, IA: 1909), 168-9. "CPT Claudius Tifft (1817-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 61083620, accessed May 9, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61083620. KYR-0001-005-0121. KYR-0001-005-0123. John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.) N00006113 1843? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Virginia native. Son of Elizabeth Barnes. Laborer in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860. Farmer in Campbell County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Familial: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Economic: Henry Barnes (printer, Campbell County) Legal: Ephraim Ladd (Campbell County, Kentucky, carpenter and justice of the peace.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 844. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Campbell County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 36. Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.) N00005591 1827-08-16 1899-11-08 Categories: People

Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin. Brown County, Wisconsin, native. Son of Henry Smith and Elvira Foster Smith. Married to Sarah M. Fellows Smith in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, on September 1, 1853. Father of Anna E. Smith, Henry L. Smith, and Eva E. Smith. Graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, in 1846. Attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. Attorney in Milwaukee in 1860. Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Social: Francis Bloodgood (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Political: Andrew G. Miller (Wisconsin associate justice and judge) Political: State of Wisconsin Political: James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin) Legal: Government of the United States of America Legal: Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 4, p. 335. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Ward 7, p. 106A. Wisconsin Marriage Records Pre-1907, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Vol 01-09, Microfilm 104, Marriage 01957. "Died in London," The Weekly Wisconsin(Milwaukee, WI), November 11, 1899, p. 4. Parker McCobb Reed, The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography (Milwaukee, WI: P.M. Reed, 1882), 191-9. New York City, New York P00002569 Categories: Places

City in New York County, New York. Located at the confluence of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

40.7128, -74.0059 George Lankevich, "New York City" in Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-City. “New York, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed April 15, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Madison, Wisconsin P00019850 Categories: Places

Capital of the State of Wisconsin. Seat of Dane County, Wisconsin.

43.0731, -89.4012 "Madison, Wisconsin," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 10, 2023, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Rueben Gold Thwaites, The Story of Madison (Madison, WI: University Historical Publishing Company, 1900). Wisconsin P00002521 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Madison. Located on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

43.0731, -89.4012 Ingolf K. Vogeler and Robert W. Finley, "Wisconsin," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 9, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Wisconsin. "Madison, Wisconsin," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 24, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. State of Wisconsin O00019944 1848 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the State of Wisconsin. Capital at Madison.

Richard Nelson Current, Wisconsin: A History (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1977). Charles R. Tuttle, An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin: Being a Complete Civil, Political, and Military History of the State (Madison, WI: B.B. Russell & Co., 1875). American Bank Note Company O00019851 1858 Categories: Organizations

United States banknote engraving company.

William H. Griffiths, The Story of the American Bank Note Company (New York: American Bank Note Company, 1959). Wellstood, Hay & Whiting O00019852 1855 1858 Categories: Organizations

New York City, New York, and Chicago, Illinois, engraving company. Formerly Wellstood, Berson & Hanks (1848) and Wellstood, Hanks, Hay & Whiting (1852). Merged into American Bank Note Company in 1858.

William H. Griffiths, The Story of the American Bank Note Company (New York: American Bank Note Company, 1959), 31. United States Congress O00005496 1789 Categories: Organizations

Organized in the Constitution of the United States, Congress, which consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.

Relationships Political: Lawrence Strother Trimble (Paducah congressman) Political: P. N. Smith (Jessamine County) Political: Woodson Dickerson (Nicholasville, Kentucky, druggist) Political: S. Noland (Commonwealth attorney) Political: Melvin T. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, county and circuit court clerk) Political: William R. Welch (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer, attornery, and notary public) Political: John B. Cook (Nicholasville, Kentucky, grocery keeper) Political: William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt)

United States Senate, Origins and Development, https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/OriginsDevelopment.htm. United States House of Representatives, _House History Timeline, 1700-1799, http://history.house.gov/Education/Timeline/1700s/; United States Constitution, Article I. 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. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin 1865-11-22 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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.
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STATE OF WISCONSIN FORWARD
American Bank Note Company. Engd by Wellstood, Hay & Whiting, New York

OFFICE OF Attorney General Madison, Nov. 22. 1865 Hon. James T. Lewis Governor &c.

Sir: -- I have at your request examined the requisition (and accompanying affidavit) of the Governor of Kentucky upon you for the rendition of Claudius Tift, an alleged fugitive from justice.

I think that the same is defective in several particulars.

It is recited in the requisition, that "Tift stands charged by indictment of John Barnes with the crime of felony &c", but no copy of the inditment has been annexed or produced to you, as required by the Act of Congress of February 12th 1793, nor is "felony" a sufficient description of the crime committed. The nature of the crime should be stated.

There is no evidence, that the original affidavit is stamped, agreeably to law.

The affidavit also fails to charge Tift with having feloniously ^stolen or^ taken the money, nor is it

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alleged therein to whom the letter was addressed. I think it is essential, that it should be shown that Tift feloniously took the money out of a letter, addressed to a third party, and converted it to his ^own^ use.

Besides these points it may not be unimportant to consider the fact, that Tift, whose rendition is sought, is not charged with having committed any offence against the laws of the State of Kentucky or of the United States.

In the whole I think that the present demand ought not to be complied with, the affidavit in particular being substantially defective.

Yours respectfully,

Winfield Smith

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