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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-0001-019-0097 MG5-175

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth president of the United States.) N001760 1809-02-12 1865-04-15 Categories: People

Sixteenth president of the United States. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Married to Mary Ann Todd Lincoln on November 4, 1842. Father of Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. Served in the Illinois Militia as a private and captain during the Black Hawk War in 1832. Postmaster and county surveyor of New Salem, Illinois. Practiced law with John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, and William Herndon in Illinois. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois from Sangamon County, Illinois, from 1834 to 1842. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District of the State of Illinois from 1847 to 1849. Unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois in 1858. Member of the Republican Party. Member of the National Union Party. President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Assassinated on April 14, 1865.

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Ronald C. White, Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, Inc., 2009). Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) N00002592 1823-04-01 1914-01-08 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Hart County, Kentucky, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1844. Assistant professor of geography, history and ethics at the United State Military Academy at West Point from 1845 to 1846. Lieutenant in General Worth’s Division during the Mexican-American War. Instructor of military tactics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Inspector General of Kentucky under Governor Beriah Magoffin. Commissioned a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Prisoner of war at Fort Warren in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 1862 to August 1862. Exchanged at Richmond, Virginia. Promoted to major general and commanded Hardee's Corps of Bragg's Army. Promoted to lieutenant general and served as chief of staff for General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Western Theater from September 1864 to April 1865.

Relationships Military: George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Kentucky State Guard Military: Alexander C Casseday (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and soldier (CSA).) Military: Charles Flournoy Johnson (Louisville, Kentucky, commission merchant and aide de camp (CSA)) Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Familial: Mary Jane Kingsbury Buckner (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Military: Kentucky State Guard Political: Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer) Social: Joseph H. Millett (Owensboro, Kentucky) Social: Thomas H. Winstead (Owensboro, Kentucky) Economic: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Economic: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Economic: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Military: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Military: Provisional Council Economic: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Provisional Council Military: Kentucky State Militia

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 654. Arndt M. Stickles, Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940) 4, 15, 17, 46, 256. Find A Grave, "Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. (1823-1914)," Memorial #5144, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5144/simon-bolivar-buckner (accessed January 8, 2018). 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. Washington, District of Columbia P00001134 Categories: Places

Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.

38.9072, -77.0369 Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC) (accessed May 22, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, D.C.," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 8, 2019). State Department of Kentucky O00000890 1792 Categories: Organizations

Office headed by the Secretary of State. Appointed by the Governor of Kentucky under the 1850 Kentucky Constitution. Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era Secretaries of State: Thomas B. Monroe, Jr. (August 30, 1859 - October 1, 1861); Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (October 2, 1861 - August 18, 1862); Daniel C. Wickliffe (August 19, 1862 - September 1, 1863; Ephraim L. Van Winkle (September 1, 1863 - May 23, 1866).

Relationships Political: William Ponsonby Furniss (New York County, New York, merchant, lawyer, notary public, and commissioner of deeds)

“Office of the Secretary of State,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 807. “Secretaries of State,” (http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx) (accessed February 13, 2017). 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). 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. 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. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1861-06-25 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Office of Secretary of State, Frankfort, June 25, 1861. To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the United states Washington D. C. Dear Sir: Sir

I have the honor hereby to accredit Genl S. B Buckner Inspector General of the Ky state Guard to communicate with you in my behalf touching subjects of public importance, the nature of which he will explain

Gen Buckner is well advised and fully authorized to represent to you the condition of public sentiment in this state and to communicate the attitude assumed by the people and authorities of Ky I have the honor to ask for him that confidence and consideration to which as the Agent of the Executive of this state, with plenary authority he may be entitled.

Very Res Yr obdt. Servt.