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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 24-25; <hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Madison County, Richmond, p. 7; <hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0013; <hi rend='italic'>Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records</hi> (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Garrard County, KY, June/July 1863, p. 404, (Accessed via ancestry.com).</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 432B-433A<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 670-71. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Marriage Records</hi>, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #001929414, p. 320<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-66 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough &amp; Deved, 1866), 302. <lb/>

Tony Curtis, "Black Enlistment: Kentucky Was Against it, Before it Was Mostly Against it," _Civil War Governors of Kentucky</hi> (blog), Kentucky Historical Society, January 8, 2015, (<a href='http://civilwargovernors.org/black-enlistment-kentucky-was-against-it-before-it-was-mostly-against-it/).'>http://civilwargovernors.org/black-enlistment-kentucky-was-against-it-before-it-was-mostly-against-it/).</a> KYR-0001-007-0339.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 424.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 145.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 186. p. 9 <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Statement of the Board of Managers of the Western Lunatic Asylum, to the Governor of Kentucky, In Relation to the Burning of Said Institution, Accompanied by Estimate of Cost for Reconstruction</hi> (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1861), p. 10.<lb/>

KYR-0001-007-0197.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District N. 1, p. 39B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 914.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, pp. 241-42. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Richland County, Denver Township, p. 517B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0098.<lb/>

“Decoration Day,” <hi rend='italic'>The Frankfort Roundabout</hi> (Frankfort, KY), May 28, 1892, p. 3.<lb/>

"Ephraim Van Winkle," Office of the Kentucky Secretary of State, accessed September 22, 2021, <a href='https://web.sos.ky.gov/ofx/secsofstate?id=39.'>https://web.sos.ky.gov/ofx/secsofstate?id=39.</a><lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910)</hi>, KDLA, Roll 994034, Franklin County Marriages.<lb/>

"Memorandum," <hi rend='italic'>The Louisville Daily Courier</hi> (Louisville, KY), May 31, 1867, p. 1. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 228-29, 251.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>"Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179.</bibl>
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<hi rend='italic'>USGS: Earth Explorer</hi>, "Garrard County, Kentucky" <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/</a> (accessed on April 13, 2020).</bibl>
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To His Excelency <rs ref='#S32205846'>Gov. T. E. Bramlete</rs><lb/>
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