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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-0001-027-0051 R2-82

Brandenburg, Meade 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. Jefferson Davis (CS President) N00000259 1808-06-03 1889-12-06 Categories: People

President of the Confederate States. Christian County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Davis and Jane Davis. Married to Sarah Knox Taylor Davis in 1835. Married to Varina Banks Howell Davis in 1845. Father of Samuel Emory Davis, Margaret Howell Davis Hayes, Jefferson Davis, Jr., Joseph Evan Davis, William Howell Davis, and Varina Anne Davis. Educated at St. Thomas College in Springfield, Kentucky. Educated at Jefferson College in Adams County, Mississippi. Educated at Wilkinson County Academy in Woodville, Mississippi. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1828. Served in the U.S. Army in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa Territory, and Wisconsin Territory. Served as state Democratic presidential elector in 1844. Member of the United States House of Representatives for an at-large district of Mississippi from 1845 to 1846. Served in the 1st Mississippi Regiment as colonel, during the Mexican-American War, from 1846 and 1847. Member of the United States Senate from the State of Mississippi from 1847 to 1851 and 1857 to 1861. Secretary of War of the United States from 1853 to 1857. President of the Confederate States of America from February 9, 1861, to May 5, 1865. Captured by Federal forces in Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, 1865.

Relationships Military: Leonidas Polk (Louisiana, bishop and general (C.S.A.)) Military: Confederate States Army Military: United States Army Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Confederate States of America Political: Confederate States Army Political: Provisional Council Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) Political: Thomas S. Bocock (Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives) Political: John Dabney Morris (Christian County, Ky, farmer, colonel (CSA))

The Papers of Jefferson Davis, s.v. “About Jefferson Davis: Chronology,” https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu (accessed October 24, 2016). The Papers of Jefferson Davis, s.v. “Geneaology of the Davis Family,” https://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/Genealogy.aspx (accessed October 24, 2016). William J. Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American (New York: Knopf, 2000). Joan Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2006). James Stuart (Meade County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court judge) N00000963 1819-03-21 1891-10-17 Categories: People

Meade County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander L. Stuart and Jane Allen McLure Stuart. Married to Mary C. Farleigh Stuart. Father of Ellen Stuart, William A. Stuart, Charles C. Stuart, Alfred Allen Stuart, and Lettie L. Stuart. Studied law under John Allen. Admitted to the bar in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1838. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Meade County in 1848 and 1849. Attorney in Meade County in 1850. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Meade County in 1850. Judge of the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1856 to 1867. Owned nine enslaved persons in Meade County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Andrew J. Bickerstaff (Brandenburg, Kentucky, engineer and merchant) Political: Stephen Hicks (Hardin County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Hardin Circuit Court Social: John Cauffield (Subject of petition from Hancock County in August 1862.) Legal: Meade Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 84. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 380. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 82A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, Lower Town Precinct, p. 173B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. History of Daviess County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: Inter-state Publishing Company, 1883), p. 141-42. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 599. "Judge James Stuart (1819-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 76265733, accessed September 9, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76265733. Brandenburg, Kentucky P001809 Categories: Places

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

37.999, -86.1694 “Brandenburg,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 113. “Brandenburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 7, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky 1862-10-08 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Brandenburg Octo 8th 1862. Gov. Robinson

Recent events have demonstrated that one of two classes of population in this state must depart or be expelled from it. Their is not One of all the rebel population who is not covertly at War with the Federal & state authorities I have closely observed their temper ever since the Rebellion began, and in no instance have I known of One of them condemning in any way acts the most atrocious and bloody if done under the rebellion I find all of them ready to endorse Murder, Robbery, Rape, to furnish every bad man any amount of their property horses, money Weapons, to act as spies, & informers, to grudge no pains, or expense, in getting newspapers & other information, and going great Journies to bear it to the enemies of the Country I have observed that they long since have abandoned all interest in Government regarding it as their enemy, by their acts decl & professions declaring that they neither hold life or property under the legal system

While this is the case with that class their is the loyal man declaring that his life & all he has are dedicated to the perpetuation of the moral legal & civil system & that he will part with them all before he will leave the ship Nor can these two ever come under a common obediance to the same Civil Compact

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simply no One or the other must go The invasion was invited is endorsed & sustained by Ky population- under the protection of Government Men crops, clothing, arms, are all reared trained raised & matured for the ragged ranks of Rebellion & so it will ever be until the Rebel men Women & children are so disposed of that they loose all possible influence within these borders. The Jews & Egyptians must one or the other have perished but for the Exdus so with the people of Ky and we had just as well face the crisis at once This small Community is an example we cant live together they are all of them willing that all of us may die by any means however atrocious & we have determined to fkeep the supremacy. by dealing death among them I write this to aid the authorities in solving the enormous issues that are upon us as it is you can take 25000. men of the Rebels are baffle 75.000 Federal troops such an instance is now before our eyes I have been as conservative as the best way in me Conservatism has degenerated in Cowardice but I would now embrace the remedy of having four fifths of my family expelled from this State with every other person of any age that has professed or been educated in rebellion The rebel President was right when he expelled every hostile element from his rule at least it was the best step toward success.

Pardon this intrusionobtly &c J. Stuart