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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-019-0072 MG5-136 to MG5-137

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky [unknown] Smith (Covington, KY) N00004854 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from John F. Fisk to Beriah Magoffin from Covington, Kentucky, on June 3, 1861.

Relationships Military: [unknown] Samuel (Covington, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

KYR-0001-019-0072. [unknown] Samuel (Covington, Kentucky, carpenter) N00004853 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from John F. Fisk to Beriah Magoffin from Covington, Kentucky, on June 3, 1861.

Relationships Social: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

KYR-0001-019-0072. R. W. Foley (Kenton County, Kentucky, organizer of home guard unit that might be col Police Guard KY Central RR) N00010519 Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, soldier. With Mr. Smith and Mr. Samuels, organized a company of home guards in Kenton County, Kentucky, in June 1861. Served in the Police Guard Kentucky Central Railroad as colonel from September 17, 1861, to December 10, 1861.

Relationships Military: [unknown] Smith (Covington, KY) Military: [unknown] Samuel (Covington, Kentucky, carpenter) Social: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 842. KYR-0001-019-0072. John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) N00000460 1815-12-14 1902-02-21 Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Genesee County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth S. Johnson Fisk on October 14, 1842. Father of Charles H. Fisk, Virginia Fisk, Sarah C. Fish, Robert Fisk, Isabella Fisk, John F. Fisk, Jr., and Elizabeth Fisk. Attended common schools in New York and Cary’s Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio. Principal of the Germantown Academy in Mason County, Kentucky. Principal of the Mason Academy in Mason County. Studied law under Frank Hord, James T. Morehead, and James Pryor in Maysville and Covington. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County from 1857 to 1865. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Attorney in Covington in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Political: William W. Boswell (Covington, Kentucky, hotel and tavern keeper) Political: William H. Shmoddle (Driver and agent for C. W. Roback in Covington, Kentucky) Military: William W. Mosher (General Merchant) Political: N. E. Kingsbury (Cincinnati, Ohio) Social: Simeon Sheppard (Kenton County) Social: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Legal: Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA)) Legal: Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier) Legal: Thomas Davis Kennedy (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer, enslaver, engineer) Legal: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Legal: William Potts (Agent in the requisition of George Burkhamer (George Burkheimer) from Louisiana to Kentucky in 1864.) Legal: George Burkhamer (George Burkheimer) (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, steam boat captain.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 2, p. 240A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 702. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 235B. Greg Perkins, “Fisk, John Flavel,” in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, eds. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), p. 342. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 421. Covington, Kentucky P00000936 Categories: Places

Seat of Kenton County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

Relationships Economic: John R. Ricke (Covington, Kentucky, city clerk) Economic: Andrew H. Herod (Kenton County, Kentucky, jailer) Economic: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor)

39.0837, -84.5086 "Covington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Burns, "Covington," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 236. Kentucky Home Guard O00000902 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

County level military organization primarily comprised of Union soldiers. Created in 1861 to counter the southern aligned Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Curran Pope (Louisville, KY, attorney, trustee, and colonel 5th KY Inf) Military: B. F. Wilson (Kentucky, resident) Military: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Nicky Hughes, “Home Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 438. Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

The volunteer and active militia from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Existed from 1860 to 1865. Commander(s): Simon Bolivar Buckner, John W. Finnell, Daniel W. Lindsey.

Relationships Military: 38th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Greenfield M. Witten (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman) Military: Alexander G. Hamilton (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Robert S. Friend (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Edwin Trimble (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Alexander L. Martin (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Military: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Military: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Military: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Francis M. Vaughn (Kentucky soldier) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: James A. Stamper (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: [unknown] Drerren (Soldier, 71st Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Military: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Military: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Military: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Military: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“An Act for the Better Organization of the Kentucky Militia,” Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 1 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky 1861-06-03 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Covington Ky June 3/61 His Excellency, Governor Magoffin, Sir,

Messrs.Smith Samuels and Foley, are a committee appointed on the part of a company ofHome Guards, for the purpose of procurring arms. The company is formed of excellent materials, and is well drilled. They have had, as a company of State Guards, the arms they now desire to retain as a company. As there is yet a company of State Guards here, having state arms, I suppose this company have a right to retain the arms they now have, I tell them they can rely upon your dealing out to

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them exact and impartial justice, so far as you have the power as one of the Commission

Respectfully Yours

John F. Fisk