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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-0001-027-0037 R2-57

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 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. J. R. Smith (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) N00010156 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from William O. Smith to James F. Robinson in September 1862.

Relationships Military: 32nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)

KYR-0001-027-0037. 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. Lorenzo Thomas (Washington, District of Columbia, adjutant general of the U.S. Army) N00005245 1804-10-26 1875-02-02 Categories: People

Washington, District of Columbia, adjutant general of the U.S. Army. New Castle, Delaware, native. Married to Elizabeth Thomas. Father of Lorenzo Thomas. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1823. Veteran of the Seminole Wars. Chief of staff for General William O. Butler in the U.S.-Mexican War. Served as chief of staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, for General Winfield Scott from 1853 to 1861. Served in the U.S. Army as adjutant general with the rank of brigadier general from 1861 to 1869. Brevetted major general in 1865.

Relationships Military: Boston Dillion (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Francis B. Alexander (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William A. Coffey (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: United States War Department Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Simon Cameron (Pennsylvania politician and secretary of war) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: United States Army Military: Provost Marshal General's Office Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) )

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Washington, District of Columbia, Ward 1, p. 188. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 502-503. Find A Grave, "Lorenzo Thomas (1804-1875)," Memorial #10385, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10385/lorenzo-thomas (accessed January 18, 2018). William O. Smith (Kentucky, soldier) N00010029 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Served in the 7th Volunteer Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) as a major from August 16, 1862, to February 5, 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Familial: J. R. Smith (Kenton County, Kentucky, resident) Military: 2nd Regiment of P. P. Military: Camp Chase Military: Lorenzo Thomas (Washington, District of Columbia, adjutant general of the U.S. Army) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Economic: Gray & Todd Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p.180. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 84. Columbus, Ohio P00004819 Categories: Places

Capital of Ohio.

39.9612, -82.9988 Charles C. Cole Jr., A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001). Cynthiana, Kentucky P00005772 Categories: Places

Seat of Harrison County, Kentucky.

38.3904, -84.2941 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 77. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Cynthiana, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 15, 2020). 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). 32nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00006231 1862-08 1863-08-12 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Frankfort, Kentucky and Camp Burnside, Kentucky. Mustered in on August 1862 and mustered out on August 12, 1863. Commander(s): Sanders D. Bruce.

Relationships Economic: Louisville, Frankfort, & Lexington Railroad Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)

Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), p. 1210. 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00006342 1862-08-16 1865-07-10 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on August 16, 1862. Mustered out on July 10, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Leonidas Metcalfe, Colonel John K. Faulkner, Lieutenant Colonel William C. Oden, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas T. Vimont, and Lieutenant Colonel William W. Bradley.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) Military: Gray & Todd Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180-208. Camp Chase O00009501 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Organized in Columbus, Ohio in 1861. Served as a military prison from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Legal: Edward Stevenson (Minister, Russellville, Logan County)

Knauss, William H. The Story of Camp Chase: A History of the Prison and Its Cemetery,Together with Other Cemeteries Where Confederate Prisoners are Buried, etc. Columbus, OH: General's Books, 1994. 2nd Regiment of P. P. O00010155 Categories: Organizations

Mentioned in a letter from William O. Smith to James F. Robinson in September 1862.

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Columbus Ohio Sep 7, 1862 Hon J, F. Robinson

My Bro. J. R, Smith recvd. a commission for 2nd Lieutenancy in 32d Regt--Ky V,--^for recruiting--^ aAt the Battle of Cynthiana, on 17th of July last he was taken prisoner, & at The time was acting adjt to my battalion, and paroled by Morgan as a Lieutenant --

He stopped recruiting believing it to be a violation of his parole, after having recruited 14 men for 32nd & over 230 for 7th Cavly prior to his having recd -- commission for recruiting -- My Bro. is here for exchange -- he has done a great deal for the cause, fought well at Cynthiana-- He and my family are exiles & beggers-- and I ask that his commission be confirmed by your -- when exchanged he will immediately report to you in Ky -- I am here by adj Gel. Thomas order, awaiting my exchange, which I think is being

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favored -- Please answer my request & direct to me -- at Camp Chase. Ohio-- ^Major^ Comdg 2nd Regt. of P, P, --

W. O. Smith

W. O. Smith