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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-0001-017-0120 MG4-1

Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi 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 Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) N00014961 1832-12-12 1897-01-19 Categories: People

Washington County, Mississippi, attorney and soldier. Louisiana native. Married to Eleanor "Nellie" Smith Nugent in Washington County, Mississippi, on November 6, 1860. Student in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1850. Graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Attorney in Washington County, Mississippi, in 1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Washington County in 1861. Served in the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and second lieutenant from 1861 to August 15, 1863. Served in Ferguson's Brigade (C.S.A.) as captain and assistant adjutant general from August 15, 1863, to February 18, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Louisiana East Feliciana Parish, p. 217B. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Centenary College of Louisiana for the Academic Year 1851-52 (Jackson, LA: Southern Mirror Office Print, 1852), 6. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Generals and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0188. Susannah J. Ural, "'My Darling Nellie': A Southern Soldier's Letters Home ,” History Net, February 2014, accessed July 7, 2021, https://www.historynet.com/darling-nellie-southern-soldiers-letters-home.htm. "William Lewis Nugent (1832-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11437607, accessed July 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11437607. KYR-0001-017-0120. KYR-0001-017-0136. Greenville, Mississippi P00015175 Categories: Places

Seat of Washington County, Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi River.

33.3793, -91.053 USGS: Earth Explorer, "Greenville, Mississippi," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on July 24, 2021). “Greenville” in Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 24, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/place/Greenville-Mississippi. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Mississippi P00000918 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Jackson, Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico.

32.2988, -90.1848 The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, et al, eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017). “Jackson, Mississippi," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi 1861-03-21 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.
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Greenville, Miss, Mrch 21/61 Hon Sec. of State Frankfort Ky. Dear Sir,

Enclosed please find five dollars for renewal of my commission.

Yours Respectfully

William L. Nugent

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Mississippi

Comr. of Deeds Wm L. Nugent Greenville Com IssdApr 2.d 1861