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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-0001-027-0032 R2-50

Tennesse Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) N00002582 1825-11-03 1888-06-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Anne Eliza Elliott Pennebaker in Nelson County, Kentucky, on November 8, 1851. Father of Charles Pennebaker, Lulie Pennebaker, and John Pennebaker. Attorney in Nelson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from March 21, 1862 to April 10, 1864. Kentucky state military agent in Washington, D.C., from 1864 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Economic: United States Department of the Treasury Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 278B Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 339. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 290A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 68. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 001929414. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 232. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 181. Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) N00009510 1829? 1890 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and major. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret A. Wilson Magruder in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 12, 1858. Merchant in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 27th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as adjutant and major from February 12, 1863, to March 29, 1865.

Relationships Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 466. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482708, p. 106 Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 232. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 387. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #486396, Certificate #292375. James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) N00004777 1825-06-01 1864-09-04 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and soldier. Huntsville, Alabama, native. Son of Calvin Morgan and Henrietta Hunt Morgan. Married to Rebecca Bruce Morgan on November 21, 1848. Married to Martha O. Ready Morgan on December 14, 1862. Father of Johnnie Hunt Morgan. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington from 1842 to 1844. Served in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Member of the Masonic Order at Daviess Lodge #22 in Lexington from 1846 to 1864. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1850. Served in a state militia artillery company in Lexington as captain from 1852 to 1854. Served in the Lexington Rifles of the Kentucky State Guard as captain from 1857 to 1861. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. With C. C. Morgan, owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from 1861 to 1864. Killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, on September 4, 1864.

Relationships Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Buffington Island Military: Confederate States Army Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 1, p. 146B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 433. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 452B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 4, 461B. Find A Grave, "John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)," Memorial #4433, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433 (accessed September 6, 2019). James A. Ramage, “Morgan, John Hunt,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), pp. 650-651. James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986).John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 402. George T. Cotten (Lt. Colonel, 6th Ky infantry U.S.A.) N00010157 Categories: People

Served as Lieutenant Colonel in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from December 24, 1861 to December 31, 1862. Died at the battle of Stone River in December 31, 1862.

Relationships Military: 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky_, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 718-719. Don Carlos Buell (US Army General & Muhlenberg Iron Operator) N002042 1818-03-23 1898-11-19 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Ohio native. Son of Salmon D. Buell and Eliza Buell. Married to Margaret Hunter Mason Buell. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1841. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War as first lieutenant and captain. Assistant adjutant general from 1848 to 1849. Promoted to lieutenant colonel and brigadier general. Commanded the Department of the Ohio from November 1861 to October 1862. Resigned from the United States Army on June 1, 1864. President of the Green River Iron Company from 1865.

"Don Carlos Buell" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 140-41. Nashville, Tennessee P001004 Categories: Places

Capital of Tennessee. Seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.1627, -86.7816 Ophelia Paine and John Lawrence Connelly, "Nashville (Metropolitan Nashville/ Davidson County)," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=964 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nashville, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 11, 2019). Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) 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: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00004925 1861-12-24 1864-11-02 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Sigel in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 24, 1861. Mustered out of service on November 2, 1864. Veterans were transferred to the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Commanding Officer(s): Colonel Walter C. Whitaker and Colonel George T. Shackelford.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 718-49. Joseph R. Reinhart, A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S.: The Boys Who Feared No Noise (Louisville: Beargrass Press, 2000). Tennesse 1862-08-23 Report English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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CONSOLIDATED MORNING REPORT OF Twenty Seventh Regt, Ky. Vols, Commanded by Col C D Pennebaker DATE. Aug 23 1862NOTE. -- All commissioned officers and enlisted men present on extra or daily duty will be borne in the column of "Present for Duty;" and all changes in the commissioned officers will be noted in the column of Remarks, or on the back of the Return.PRESENT.ABSENT.PRESENT AND ABSENT.ALTERATIONS.HORSES.AGGREGATE PRESENT FOR DUTY.REMARKS.FOR DUTY.SICK.IN ARREST OR CONFINEME'TBY AUTHORITY.WITHOUT AUTHORITY.INFANTRY.ARTILLERY.CAVALRY.STATION.COMMANDING OFFICER.GARRISON.Number of Companies.General Officers.General Staff Officers.Field Officers.Regimental & Battalion Staff Officers.Company Officers.Total Commissioned.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Aggregate.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Aggregate.Aggregate Last Return.Gained.Lost.Recruits Required.Servicable.Unservicable.Equipped.Unequipped.Equipped.Unequipped.Equipped.Unequipped.Number and Calibre of Guns.2575113186141482333740381376797933352403337073732237391286371747422444501173656868333437333677070113013211824951511123142911634346462237391812565858333134203515454336TOTAL.^2^ 2^5^ 5^20^ 20^27^ 27^313^ 313^3^ 3^1^ 1^9^ 9^353^ 353^5^ 5^221^ 221^8^ 8^33^ 33^554^ 554^587^ 587^587^ 587336^8^ 8353

HEAD QUARTERS: 27th Ky Vols

STATION: Near Nashville Tenn DATE: August 23d 1862

Alex Magruder Adjt. C D Pennebaker Commanding.

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Mans croes Creek Aug 230/62 Hon Jas F Robinson

I herewith send you my morning report of 23d inst, I send this to Show the necessity of filling up my Regt. Genl Buell has only allowed me one officer to recruit where as all others are allowed two. One cannot under existing circumstances fill up my ranks in a any while -- I cant do the work of a full regt with the men I have it will Kill them to do so, I was sent here after evry one else had been whissed away with less than 250 men to contend with Morgan who is reported to have 2000, There is no better Regt in the service than mine as far as it goes -- I do myself and service injustice in my paresent condition, and I appeal to you to make Some arraingment that will allow me to send a corps home of sufficient force to fill me up for the fall campaign. I cant enter with my Regt as it is, I have all to loose and nothing to gain in a hopeless endeavor to sustain a Regt. with about a quarter of its force. I do not write this with a view of making complaint, for that wont do in the Army, but to appeal to your sound judgement in my behalf, my losses in sickness have been heavy and hospitals have treated me badly in discharging and furloughing men who ought to have been in the field --

On reflection col cotton told me the 6th was only allowed one recruiting officer.

Any suggestion you may make to Genl Buell with refference to filling up the old Regts I have evry confidence will be carried out speedily -- They ought to be filled up at once -- I have 221 men sent to hospital betwen first of Apl & the date of this Report, to gather these up there ^the^ Genl only allowed me 20 days and two officers, time to short and force too small, & had I not been in such straitened circumstances I should not have made the detail unless by positive order to that effect -- It is reported that you intend to fill up the old Regts with drafted men will that not produce discord, between the old volunteer, and the new drafted levy -- He comes too late, & by force, it will be made a cause of quarrel; give officers ^&^ particularly colonels much anxiety & trouble,

HFeeling confident that you will take an enlightened view of this very important subject

I remain dear sir your obt svt C D Pennebaker Col 27th Ky V