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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-0001-027-0041 R2-67 to R2-68

Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 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. [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) N00009697 Categories: People

Captain of a State Guard unit in 1862.

KYR-0001-027-0041 Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) N00009694 1830-06-18 1913-03-27 Categories: People

Texas farmer, physician, and soldier. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Allen Gano and Mary Catherine Conn. Married to Martha Jones Welch on March 15, 1853. Father of William. B. Gano, John T. Gano, Clarence W. Gano, Sam W. Gano, Kate M. Gano, Fannie Gano, and Maurice Gano. Attended Bacon College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia. Graduated from Bethany College in 1849. Graduated from the medical college in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1851. Physician in Bourbon County in 1850. Physician for the Louisiana State Prison from 1856 to 1858. Farmer and physician in Dallas, Texas in 1860. Member of the Texas legislature from Tarrant County in 1860 and 1861. Colonel in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.). Appointed brigadier general March 17, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 479. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, p. 389. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Texas, Dallas County, Dallas, p. 108B. Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men, RG 109, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0101 (accessed via fold3.com). Lindsey Apple, “Richard Montgomery Gano,” in Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State, Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 96-102. Charles David Grear, Why Texans Fought in the Civil War (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2010), 92-93. Memorial And Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892), 999-1001. Texas, Death Certificates, 1890-1976, Texas State Library, Dallas County, March 27, 1913 (accessed via fold3.com). Francis B. Trussell (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, farmer and mayor) N00008307 1827-09-29 1906? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, farmer and mayor. Lewis County, Kentucky native. Son of John Trussell and Rebecca Clancy Trussell. Married Ellen M. Robinson Trussell in 1864. Attended Richland Academy in Mason County, Kentucky. Farmer in Lewis County in 1850. Read law with Harrison Taylor in Maysville. Admitted to the bar in Maysville in September 1858. Mayor of Maysville from 1861 to 1864. Deputy Provost Marshal of the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky. Commissioner of the Board of Enrollment in Mayesville and Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1865. Member of the Presbyterian Church.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Thomas J. Walker (Lewis County, KY, saddler and farmer) Military: Amos J. Means (Maysville, KY, blacksmith) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District No. 2, p. 159A. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 996. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 111. KYR-0001-029-0371. [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) N00009698 Categories: People

Mentioned in a letter from William H. Wadsworth to James F. Robinson in September 1862.

KYR-0001-027-0041 Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) N00000845 1812-01-13 1872-03-28 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, farmer, and politician. Married to Frances McAlister Marshall. Father of Nelly Nichol Marshall McAfee. Appointed to and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1832. Resigned from the army in 1833. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1833. Practiced law in Frankfort, Kentucky, from 1833 to 1834 and in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1834 to 1846. Member of the Louisville City Council. Served in the Kentucky State Militia. Served as a colonel of Volunteers in the First Kentucky Cavalry in the Mexican War. Engaged in agriculture business in Henry County, Kentucky.Served the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky as a Whig Party member of the United States House of Representative from 1849 to 1852 and again as an American “Know Nothing” Party member from 1855 to 1859. Served as minister to China from 1852 to 1854. Canvassed for John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election. Served in the Confederate State Army as a brigadier general during the Civil War from 1861 to 1863, resigning on two occasions. Moved to Richmond, Virginia, to continue his law practice. Served the Eighth Congressional District as a member of the Second Confederate Congress in the House of Representatives from 1864 to 1865. Moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 167-168. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Marshall, Humphrey,” (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000894) (accessed January 18, 2017). Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 648. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 319. “Marshall, Humphrey,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 610. Find A Grave, “Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872)," Memorial 8930, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8930 (accessed January 18, 2017). “Humphrey Marshall,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), March 29, 1872. Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) N00006168 1820-03-06 1899-07-02 Categories: People

Washington, D. C., soldier and engineer. Clinton, Connecticut, native. Son of Edward Wright and Nancy Wright. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1841. Married to Louisa M. Bradford Wright on August 11, 1842. Father of Mary H. Wright, Edward B. Wright, and Rosa Wright. Assistant professor at U.S. Military Academy from 1842 to 1844. Member of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1841 to 1884. Served as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain from 141 to 1855. Served as assistant to the chief engineer from 1855 to 1861 in Washington, D. C. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 14, 1861. Commander of the Department of the Ohio from 1862 to 1863. Appointed major general on May 12, 1864. Commander of U. S. Army Sixth Corps from 1864 to April 1865.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: William Nelson (U.S. Army major general)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, D. C., Ward 1, p. 357-58. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, New York, Ward 15 District 1, p. 378B. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, eds. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske (New York: Appleton, 1889), 623. Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 575-76. "Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899)," Arlington National Cemetery, accessed June 5, 2019, https://ancexplorer.army.mil. “Memoir of Horatio Gouverneur Wright,” Transactions of American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 46 (December 1901), 551-54. Official Army Register for January 1880 (Washington, D.C: Adjutant General’s Office), 96. [Unknown] Bush (Clark County) N00009692 Categories: People

Mentioned as judge in a letter from William H. Wadsworth to James F. Robinson in September 1862.

KYR-0001-027-0041. Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) N00003127 1829-09-20 1879-01-22 Categories: People

Mount Sterling, Kentucky, circuit judge. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Apperson. Married to Elizabeth S. Taylor Apperson on December 5, 1854. Father of Maggie Apperson and Mary Apperson. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky. Served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1847. Attorney in Montgomery County, Kentucky in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Montgomery County in 1860. Judge of the 11th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Bath Circuit Court Legal: Montgomery Circuit Court Legal: [Unknown] Adams (Letcher co, KY, murder victim in Bath Co) Political: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, p. 32. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery, p. 7. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #unknown, Jefferson County Marriages. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 26. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Find a Grave, “Richard Apperson (September 20, 1829-January 22, 1879),” Memorial #84886529, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84886529 (accessed June 5, 2017). Dick Williams (Maysville, Kentucky, resident) N00009699 Categories: People

Mentioned as General in a letter from William H. Wadsworth to James F. Robinson in September 1862.

KYR-0001-027-0041 Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) N00003130 1831? Categories: People

Owingsville, Kentucky, court clerk, attorney, U.S. marshal, police judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas I. Young and Elizabeth Young. Married to Mary R. Bell Young in Bath County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1856. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Studied law with Judge Thomas B. Monroe, Sr., in Frankfort, Kentucky. U.S. Marshal in Bath County. Attorney in Owingsville in 1860. Police judge of Owingsville in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bath County from 1861 to 1863. Clerk of the Bath Circuit Court from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Bath County Court Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Legal: Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive) Legal: Bath Circuit Court Legal: James M. Nesbitt (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney & comm'th atty) Legal: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Legal: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Legal: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 1st Division, p. 109B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath, Owingsville, p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Fayette County Marriages, p. 7 of 29 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 47. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 137. KYR-0001-017-0065. William Henry Wadsworth (KY state senator, U. S. Representative, attorney, presidential elector) N00000826 1821-07-04 1893-04-02 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Martha M. Wood Wadsworth in Lewis County, Kentucky, in June 1849. Father of Adney Wadsworth, Henry Wadsworth, Charles Wadsworth, John G. Wadsworth, and Elizabeth J. Wadsworth. Educated at Maysville Seminary. Graduated from Augusta College in 1841. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1844. Attorney in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1853 to 1856. Presidential elector for the Constitutional Union Party in 1860. Served in the United States Army as a colonel and as an aide to General William “Bull” Nelson. Served the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky as a Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: Dick Williams (Maysville, Kentucky, resident) Military: [Unknown] Bush (Clark County) Military: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Military: Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) Military: Kentucky Home Guard

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 37B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 689 Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, pp. 355-56. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Precinct No 2, p. 329D. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film #000344051. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 520. “Wadsworth, William Henry,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000015. "William Henry Wadsworth (1821-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #9375030, accessed March December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9375030. Maysville, Kentucky P00001219 Categories: Places

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

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, "Maysville" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 621-22. " Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Mason County, Kentucky P00000446 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Maysville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, “Mason County” and “Maysville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 614, 621-22. "Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Mount Sterling, Kentucky P00001936 Categories: Places

Seat of Montgomery County, Kentucky.

38.0565, -83.9433 "Mount Sterling, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 205. Richmond, Kentucky P00009682 Categories: Places

Seat of Madison County, Kentucky.

37.7479, -84.2947 Fred Allen Engle, “Richmond” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 771-72. "Richmond, Kentucky,"USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Mays Lick, Kentucky P00003325 Categories: Places

Located in Mason County, Kentucky.

38.5176, -83.8419 Jean W. Calvert, "Mason County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 614-15. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 193. 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/. Aberdeen, Ohio P00009691 Categories: Places

Town in Brown County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

38.8645, -83.9041 Encyclopedia of Ohio, 6th ed., vol. 1 (Somerset Publishers, Inc., 2002), 271. Washington, Kentucky P00009689 Categories: Places

Town in Mason County, Kentucky.

38.6159, -83.8081 Jean W. Calvert, “Washington” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 934. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Washington Post Office, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 18, 2021). Lewisburg, Kentucky P00009688 Categories: Places

Town in Mason County, Kentucky.

38.6412, -83.7444 "Lewisburg" in Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 170-71. KYR-0001-027-0041. Millersburg, Kentucky P00009690 Categories: Places

City in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.253 "Millersburg" in Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 197. Paris, Kentucky P00000514 Categories: Places

Seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.253 H.E. Everman, "Paris," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), 709-10. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Paris, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 3, 2020). Owingsville, Kentucky P00002306 Categories: Places

Seat of Bath County, Kentucky.

38.1448, -83.7641 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987). 223. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Owingsville, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 27, 2019). Clark County, Kentucky P001786 Categories: Places

County in Kentucky. Seat at Winchester. Located on the Kentucky River.

37.9901, -84.1797 William B. Scott, Jr., “Clark County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), p. 197. "Winchester, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005976 1862-11-06 1864-03-24 Categories: Organizations

Companies "A," "B," "C" and "D" organized at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and mustered in November 6, 1862. Other companies organized at Irvine, Kentucky, August 21, 1862, to February 13, 1863. Mustered out September 16, 1863, to March 24, 1864. Commander(s): Henry C. Lilly.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Jones A. Crawford (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt/1st Lieu Cav USA) Military: Joseph W. Stivers (Bourbon County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier (major)) Military: Zachariah W. Owens (Clark County, Kentucky, farm laborer and lieutenant) Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 393. 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. Kentucky Home Guard O00000902 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

County level military organization primarily comprised of Union soldiers. Created in 1861 to counter the southern aligned Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Curran Pope (Louisville, KY, attorney, trustee, and colonel 5th KY Inf) Military: B. F. Wilson (Kentucky, resident) Military: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Nicky Hughes, “Home Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 438. 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. Kentucky State Militia O00000916 1792 Categories: Organizations

The Kentucky State Militia consisted of two principal branches, active and enrolled. From its founding, the Commonwealth of Kentucky operated a county-based, universally enrolled militia consisting of all white males of military age. The active militia, consisting of volunteer companies, was organized in 1860 as the Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Alexander W. Nickell (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer and soldier) Military: 65th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Military: [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Military: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Thomas Hall (Washington County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Goldman H. Goodman (Anderson County, KY, physician) Military: James A. Hawkins (Anderson County, KY, paymaster ) Military: William Morrison (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: William C. Wood (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: George W. Mathews (Anderson County, Kentucky, police judge) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Richard G. Stone, “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Confederate States Army O00000506 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).

Relationships Military: William Harris (possible confederate soldier) Military: United States Army Military: John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier) Military: Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Political: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Military: [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) Military: Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) Military: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) ) Military: Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)

Henry Putney Beers, The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259. Ohio State Militia O00009693 1788 Categories: Organizations

The Ohio State Militia consisted of two principle branches, enrolled and active. The 1857 Militia Law of Ohio created twenty-three divisions of universally enrolled militia consisting of all white men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five who were subject to duty as called by the governor. The active militia, designated the Ohio Volunteer Militia (OVM), included those men of military age who volunteered for service.. Ohio's Militia Act of 1863 reformed the OVM and mandated drilling in anticipation of Confederate incursions into the state.

Following John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raid into Ohio, further reform, in the form of the 1864 Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia, created the Ohio National Guard. In the spring of 1864, 38,000 Ohio National Guardsmen mustered into federal service for a period of 100 days.

Militia Law of Ohio: Being an Act to Organize and Discipline the Militia and Volunteer Militia (Columbus: Richard Nevins, State Printer 1857), 3-6. Cyrus Moore, "The Ohio National Guard before the Militia Act of 1903," (Unpublished MA Thesis: Kent State University, 2015), 19-63. "Ohio National Guard History,"_The Ohio Adjutant General's Department: Ohio National Guard, accessed September 12, 2022, www.ong.ohio.gov/history/index.html. 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00000866 1862-09-09 1863-09-17 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Maysville, Kentucky. Mustered in on September 9, 1862, and mustered out on September 17, 1863. Part of the Army of the Ohio. Commander(s): Joshua Tevis and Charles J. Walker.

Relationships Military: Andrew J. Farrow (Lewis County, KY, farmer and 1st lieut 10th Cav USA) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 271. Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 1862-09-16 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Maysville, Sep 16th 1862. His Excellency Jas. F. Robinson. Louisville, Ky. Govr

Since receiving yr appointment as commander of "the Home forces in mason" I have done what I could to provide for the defence of this part of the state. Being without arms, amunition & everything else needful, I could do but little against an enemy numerous & active, & well mounted, able to advance quickly & retreat faster than I could pursue.

My only organized means of defense, consisted of a fragment of the 14th Ky. Cav., dismounted recruits, some fugitives from the invaders (about 70) partly mounted, 60 of the 7th Ky, Cav, & my ^city^ Home Guards. The recruits for the 14th Ky. Cav, amounted to nearly 700 men at Mt Sterling, but retreating from that point after the battle of Richmond on foot, & mainly mostly unamed, they arrived here about 300 strong- some without coats, some without shoes, & none either armed or clothed by the state or Govt -I sent them into Camp at the expense of the state, with the straggling fugitives from the 7th Ky. Cav. & about 70 men formed into a militiacompany as state troops under Captn Mitchell.

Wednesday night last, the enemy 800 strong, under Gano, occupied Mayslick, 12 miles from here. From the misconduct of one of my own officers, I only learned the fact at 3 o'clk a.m.

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thursday. I made my dispositions either to fight or cross the river, as I might think best; intending to adopt the latter course, if the enemy advanced in force. After day light I proceeded with the mounted men, numbering about 100 (including 60 of the 7th Ky. Cav.) to recomnoitre on the Lexington road. The 7th Ky, Cav. with their consistent cowardice & insubordination, refused to march, or obey my orders, but broke & deserted & forced their way on the Ferry boat & crossed to Aberdeen ^O.^ With the remainder I went as far as Washington, The enemy soon made his appearance & drove in my pickets, capturing three -- the rest rallied on the support I had brought. I at once fell back slowly & in order to Maysville & crossed over my whole Command & all its small property, without haste or confusion. The enemy sent in a flag of truce, shortly after to the Mayor of Maysville demanding its surrender. The mayor replied that he had no means of resistence.

The rebels never occupied the town or hoisted their flag. The main body remained at Washington 'till sundown & then, learning that weI had joined with some of the Ohio militia, & was attempting to surround them by a movement across the Ohio river at Logans' Gap, they fell back to Lewisburgh & next morning retreated from Mason County. They continued to fall back through Millersburg to Paris -- there about 300 under the rebel Cameron left Gano & proceeded to Mt Sterling where they are now encamped & recruiting. Gano we hear went to Lexington.

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Since my return to this city, I have examined the roads by a small force for some miles, & have accurate news of the enemy as far as owingsville, Mt Sterling & Paris. There is no enemy that I cannot take care of, this side of those points.

We hear that Humphrey Marshall is Coming through the mountains. we have heard it for 10 days, & have ceased to credit it, but have taken means to know all about his movements.

I desire authority to buy or press 500 horses & two waggons, for the purpose of mounting that many men of the 14th Ky. Cav. now in my Camp, that soon will be. If I am permitted to do so, I will go to Owingsville & Mt Sterling & break up the rebel camp, thereabouts, protect & rally the people there. I have a light six pounder (iron) but wish one or two mountain Howitzer's still lighter, -- I want fixed ammunition for my gun. I have nothing. The Govt wholly neglects us: of all the regiments raised in our part of the state, not one ram remains to help us -- Genl Wright took away the last (the 10th Ky. Cav.) & left us naked to our enemies.

If I can get permission to press the horses, I have the men & guns & equipments- but will need ammunition. 500 mounted men, with a section of light artillery will run the rebels & their recruits out of my District or destroy them.

Judge Bush of Clarke, R. Apperson jr, Genl Dick Williams, Van B. Young, & other gentlemen are here with men, & have been the greatest comfort & support in my troubles. They will help me drive the rebel marauders from their homes should you furnish us the horses. The affair requires speed.

Very truly yr obt &c W. H. Wadsworth

W. H. Wadsworth