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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-0001-027-0066 R2-102

Frankfort, Franklin 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. 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. 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. Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky O00000389 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era quartermaster generals: M. D. West, W. A. Dudley (October 3,1861-October 30, 1862), James F. Robinson, Jr. (December 2, 1862-August 31, 1863), Samuel G. Suddarth (September 1, 1863-January 13, 1866). Civil War-era assistant quartermaster generals: Henry J. Lyons (June 1861) and John E. Murrah (September 1865).

Relationships Military: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Military: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Legal: Government of the United States of America

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Works Progress Administration, Military History of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, Adjutant General of Kentucky, 1939, 169-70. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-019-0094. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1862-10-30 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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Executive Department FrankfortK. Oct 30/62 W. A. Dudley Esq Quarter Master General Dear Sir

Your letter of the 27th inst., tendering your resignation of the office of Quarter Master General of the State, to take effect on the 1st proximo, has been received.

I regret the causes which have impelled you to this step, and more especially that which refers to your enfeebled state of health. The fidelty and ability with which you have discharged the duties of the position from which you now, voluntarily, propose to retire, have been such as to command my most hearty approbation; and I do not hesitate to say that, in your withdrawal from it, the State loses the services of a competent, faithful and reliable officer.

In accepting your resignation, for the causes which you have assigned, I beg to reciprocate your expressions of kindness, and to wish you a speedy restoration of your accustomed health and vigor.

I am very truly yours J. F. Robinson

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Qr Mr General W. A. Dudley

Resignation & Gov. acceptance Filed Octo 30. 1862