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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-027-0024 R2-39

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) N00007039 1824-06-09 1870-03-19 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and university trustee. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin W. Dudley. Married to Mary J. Dudley. Father of Benjamin Dudley Jr., William Dudley, and Mary Dudley. Graduate of Princeton College in 1842. Attorney in Fayette County from c1844 to 1860. President of the Louisville and Lexington Railway Company in 1850. Commissioner to Washington D.C. with Francis K. Hunt in 1861. Appointed quartermaster general of Kentucky on October 3, 1861. Secretary of the board of trustees of Transylvania University in 1865.

Relationships Political: Francis Key Hunt (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: John B. Wilgus (Lexington, Kentucky, merchant, banker, businessman, and soldier) Military: John B. Wilgus (Lexington, Kentucky, merchant, banker, businessman, and soldier) Legal: George Blackburn Kinkead (Fayette County, KY, attorney and trustee of Transy University) Legal: Benjamin Gratz (Lexington atto & businessman) Legal: Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 192B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 350. Z. F. Smith, The History of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1892), 611-612. The Military Department of Kentucky, Military History of Kentucky (Frankfort: The State Journal, 1939), 95. Lexington History Museum, "Lexington and Frankfort Railroad", http://lexhistory.org/wikilex/lexington-frankfort-railroad, (accessed June 13, 2017). Find A Grave, "William Ambrose Dudley (1824-1870)," Memorial #8872034, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8872034 (accessed June 13, 2017). KYR-0001-009-0038. John B. Wilgus (Lexington, Kentucky, merchant, banker, businessman, and soldier) N00000288 1824-03-22 1889-01-20 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, merchant, banker, and businessman. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy T. Cox Wilgus in 1847. Clerk in the businesses of John J. Dudley and John Carty. Owned four enslaved persons in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Partnered with B. G. Bruce in business from [unknown date] to 1856. Organized the People’s Gas Company of Lexington in 1846. Owned and operated as principal of the John B. Wilgus & Company from 1856 to 1866. Vice president of the Lexington City National Bank from 1865 to 1870.

Relationships Political: Union Executive Committee of Kentucky Military: H. H. Johnson (Lexington Captain) Political: Hiram Shaw (Lexington, Kentucky, hat merchant and politician) Political: David Short Goodloe (Lexington, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, soldier, and univ trustee) Military: Hiram Shaw (Lexington, Kentucky, hat merchant and politician) Military: David Short Goodloe (Lexington, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, soldier, and univ trustee) Political: H. H. Johnson (Lexington Captain)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Ward No 2 City of Lexington, p. 124-125. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 53. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 728-729. “John B. Wilgus, a prominent Breeder of Thoroughbreds and Trotters, Dies Near Lexington,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 20, 1889. KYR-0002-022-0001. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1862-08-25 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Lexington Aug 25/62 Genl J W Finnell Frankfort Dear Sir

I Received to day the appointment of Provost Marshall ofas pr Coppy of Speciall order No 2 enclosed, authiirsing me to Organise a Citizens Gard Without Pay. which I Cannot accept according to the order, I will accept the post if I am allowed to Keep my Company to act as Provost Gard under Pay. I with my Co have have been dooing the duty of Provost Gard to a great extent for the last nine or ten Months. for the Reason that the Regullar Soldirs have all been Strangers here & and I have had to furnish the men to do the duty or to act as guides for them, it is impossible to get men to do Service unless they get paid, to organisse a Citizens Gard it would have to be done from that Class of Citizens who could do without Pay. hard crackers &c with a Single Blanket on a Prison Floor would not Suit them. they would not be efficient. My Men are well driled & efficient. & Can do the dutty & allow Raw Recruits Coming in to go into Camp & become drilled Soldirs. I Refer You to Genl W a Dudley who will be in Your City to morrow

Respy yours & J B Wilgus

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N B. I have declined the appointment to Genl Dent in letter of this date. I am Still anxious for my Battery I write this letter at the Request of Genl Dudley.

J B W.