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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0114 MG3-487 to MG3-488

Sacramento, Sacramento County, California Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) N00002581 1833-07-03 1862-04-06 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Bell Monroe Sr. and Eliza P. Monroe. Married to Elizabeth C. Grier Monroe on November 15, 1859. Father of Robert Grier Monroe. Attended the University of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana. Practiced law in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1849. Household owned three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Editor of Kentucky Statesman in Lexington in 1856. Mayor of Lexington in 1859. Secretary of state for Kentucky under Beriah Magoffin from August 30, 1859, to October 1, 1861. Owned one enslaved person in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as major from October 1861 to April 1862. Killed in action on April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Political: John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James G. Craig (Cincinnati, Ohio) Political: John E. Hamilton (Covington ky atty) Political: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Anthony Claybrook McElroy (Springfield, ky bank cashier) Legal: Julius Rowley Pomeroy (Brooklyn, New York, teacher, commissioner of deeds, and attorney) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Legal: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Perry Wherritt (Harrison County, Kentucky, tanner and county court clerk) Political: Isaac Raney (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: Francis Poe (Sacramento County, California, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 701. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 384-85. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 500B. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J.M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 548. Ed Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade, (Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), 458-66. "Maj Thomas Bell Monroe (1833-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15725235, accessed December 9, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15725235. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 270. William Garrison English (Sacramento County, California, broker and commissioner of deeds) N00014773 1819 1878-08-16 Categories: People

Sacramento County, California, broker and commissioner of deeds. New York native. Married to Elizabeth C. English. Father of L. G. English. Broker in Sacramento County in 1860. Employed Ah Tom as a servant in Sacramento County in 1860. Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky in Sacramento County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Ward 4, p. 608. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Ward 4, p. 291B-292A. "Death of English," The Bee (Sacramento, CA), August 17, 1878, p. 5. "William Garrison English (1818-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 105714424, accessed June 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105714424. KYR-0001-017-0114 Sacramento, California P00014772 Categories: Places

Capital of California. Seat of Sacramento County, California. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River.

38.5816, -121.4944 "History," City of Sacramento, http://www.cityofsacramento.org/fire/about/history (accessed June 15, 2021). USGS: Earth Explorer_, "Sacramento, California," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 15, 2021). California P00002428 Categories: Places

State in the far western United States. Capital at Sacramento. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

38.5816, -121.4944 Gregory Lewis McNamee and Neil Morgan, "California" in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state (accessed on May 25, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Sacramento, California," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). 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. Sacramento, Sacramento County, California 1861-02-18 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Sacramento Cal Feb 18th 1861, Dr Sir

Asmy commission as a Commissioner of deeds &c for your Statewill expire on the 2d day of May next, beg to inform you that I would be pleased to have the same renewed, on expiration of same.

very Respecty Yours & -- Wm G. English

To Honr Secretary of State of Kentucky.

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Wm G. English Comr of Deeds Sacramento. IssdMar 28th 1861