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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0352 MG18-44

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. Andrew Jackson James (Frankfort, KY, attorney, Ky state rep, and Atty Genl of Ky 1859-63) N00004857 1817-06-04 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, legislator, and attorney general of Kentucky. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary A. Beatie James in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1841. Father of Sarah B. James, John B. James, Daniel James, Anna Eliza James, Clara James, Samuel James, and Emma James. Attorney in Somerset in 1850. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Somerset in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pulaski County in 1855. Attorney general of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Owned ten enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Andrew Monroe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny) Political: Thomas Mitchell (Jefferson County, Kentucky, superintendent, clerk, apptd JP 1861 never served?) Political: Military Board of Kentucky Social: Cyrenius Wait (Somerset, Kentucky, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 1A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 475. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 488A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144B. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 314. C. E. James, A Short History of Franklin County, Kentucky... (Frankfort, KY: George A. Lewis, 1881), 10. Clarence E. Walker, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association, Held in Olympian Springs, Ky., July 9, 10 and 11, 1913 (Louisville, KY: Westerfield-Bonte Company, 1913), 177-76. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pulaski County Marriages, Film #000804052, p.162. [Unknown] Powell (Jackson County, Kentucky, resident. ) N00020230 Categories: People

Jackson County, Kentucky, resident.

KYR-0001-020-0352. 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. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Jackson County, Kentucky P00003363 Categories: Places

County in eastern central Kentucky. Seat at McKee.

37.4304, -83.9934 "Jackson County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 460. "McKee, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed May 6, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky O00012489 1792-06-01 Categories: Organizations

Records all the acts of the governor and serves as the notary public for the Commonwealth. Secretaries of State: Thomas B. Monroe, Jr. (August 1859-October 1861); Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (October 1861-August 1862); Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (August 1862-September 1863); Ephraim L. Van Winkle (September 1863-May 1866).

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Political: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Political: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Political: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Political: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Political: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Political: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Political: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Political: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: William S. Dehoney (Franklin County Merchant) Economic: George W. Robb (Franklin County Merchant)

"Executive Services," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, https://www.sos.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Secretaries of State," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Kentucky Secretary of State Time Line," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/sostimeline.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Commonwealth of Kentucky, OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE, Frankfort, August , 1859.

SECRETARYS OFFICE STATE OF KENTUCKY

The undersigned, a Board for examining the returns of the election held the 1st day of August, 1859, hereby certify that received a majority of the votes given for the office of and is therefore duly elected to that office for the term prescribed by the Constitution.

Secretary of State. Attorney General.

SECRETARYS OFFICE STATE OF KENTUCKY

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Powells case Jackson Co