<title type="main">Simon B. Buckner to W. P. Mellen

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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-0001-019-0100 MG5-176

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 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). William Proctor Mellen (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent) N00002563 1814 1873 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney, coal manufacturer, commissioner of deeds, port authority, and treasury agent. Massachusetts native. Father of William S. Mellen. Married to Isabella Mellen. Father of Malcom Mellen and Isabel Mellen. Married to Ellen S. Mellen. Father of Ellen S. Mellen and Charlotte Mellen. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Coal manufacturer in Lawrence County in 1860. Appointed commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. Port authority in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Treasury agent in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864.

Relationships Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Timothy Danielson Lincoln (Covington, Ky) Political: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Social: [Unknown] Simmons (Louisville Resident) Social: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Social: Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 471A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 589. F. & J. Rivers & George A. Bailey, The Congressional Globe and Appendix, Third Session Forty-First Congress: In Three Parts pt. 2 (Washington DC: Office of the Congressional Globe, 1871), 1026. Find A Grave, "William Proctor Mellen (1814-1873)," Memorial #78996603, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78996603 (accessed September 25, 2018). KYR-0001-017-0088. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Columbia, Kentucky P001014 Categories: Places

Seat of Adair County, Kentucky.

37.1028, -85.3064 “Columbia,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 216. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Columbia, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 25, 2020). 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. 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). Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky O00000389 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era quartermaster generals: M. D. West, W. A. Dudley (October 3,1861-October 30, 1862), James F. Robinson, Jr. (December 2, 1862-August 31, 1863), Samuel G. Suddarth (September 1, 1863-January 13, 1866). Civil War-era assistant quartermaster generals: Henry J. Lyons (June 1861) and John E. Murrah (September 1865).

Relationships Military: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Military: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Legal: Government of the United States of America

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Works Progress Administration, Military History of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, Adjutant General of Kentucky, 1939, 169-70. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-019-0094. 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. Louisville, Jefferson 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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3. Gen. Buckner to Federal Agent Mellen SPECIAL ORDER, No. Headquarters Ky. State Guard, Louisville, June 25, 1861. Sir

I understand that the Collector of the port of Louisville has represented that you are the general agent of the U. S. Government at this port, exercising a supervisory control over all shipments by water from Louisville, I further understand that on the application of the Quartermaster of the State troops, for a permit to ship necessary equipments for the State forces at Columbus, Ky., you refused your sanction, even after the Collector of the port had given his.

Am I to understand from this, that you claim the right to prevent the State of Kentucky from exercising the clear right of furnishing her own Militia with what is necessary for their Equipment, and that you assume, as an agent of the U. S. Government, to supervise and veto the official acts of the constituted authorities of Kentucky, acting in accordance with existing laws?

I am sir, very respectfully Your ob't Servt (Signed) S, B, Buckner Insp. Gen. of Ky

To Mr. W. P. Mellen