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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-0001-027-0068 R2-105

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio Henry Dent (Louisville, KY clerk, Provost Guard, chief of police, col. 34th Ky Inf USA) N00008155 1820? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, soldier, and police chief. Maryland native. Married to Sarah A. Dent. Father of Laura Dent, Henry Dent, Mary Dent, Sarah Dent, Kingley Dent, and Edward H. Dent. Tax collector in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Served in the First Battalion Provost Guard of Louisville (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel from September 23, 1861, to October 3, 1862. Chief of police of the City of Louisville from March 1862 to May 9, 1862. Served in the 34th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 3, 1862, to June 1, 1863.

Relationships Political: Reuben Hitchcock (Ohio, attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Jacob B. Ehrich (Louisville, Ky, Police Dept; "always wore a silk hat") Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, Ward 7, p. 353A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 3, p. 724. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 3, p. 264B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 316-7, 344-46. Morton O. Childress, "Louisville Police Department" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 565-67. Reuben Hitchcock (Ohio, attorney) N00009750 1806-09-02 1883-12-09 Categories: People

Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, attorney. Ohio native. Son of Peter Hitchcock and Nabby Cowles. Attended Yale University in New Haven, CT. Married to Sarah Marshall Hitchcock in 1834. Father of Peter Hitchcock, Eliza Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, and Hellen H. Hitchcock. Admitted to the bar in 1830. Judge of Common Pleas from 1851 to 1855. Vice president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad. Special commissioner to review the cases of political prisoners incarcerated at Camp Chase, Ohio, from August 13, 1862, to October 30, 1862.

Relationships Legal: Edward Stevenson (Minister, Russellville, Logan County) Political: David Tod (Governor of Ohio) Legal: Camp Chase

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland Ward 2, p. 208A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Lake County, Painesville Village, p. 418. _Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June 1884, presented at the meeting of alumni, June 28, 1884, p. 168. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, D.C., 1880-1901), series 2, vol. 4: 380, 690. 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). 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. Somerset, Kentucky P00001061 Categories: Places

Seat of Pulaski County, Kentucky.

37.092, -84.6041 J. H. Deberry, "Somerset" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 833. "Somerset, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio 1862-10-10 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Office Special Commissioner, CAMP CHASE, Columbus, Ohio, Oct 10 1862 To His Excellency James Robinson Gov of Kentucky Dear Sir

On the 5th of May last, there was sent here from the Head Quarters of the Provst Guard at Louisville, by Henry DentLt Col & Pro. Marshall two men arrested at SomersetKy March 12, against whom no charges or evidence is on file -- They were sent as State prisoners -- Will you have the goodness to cause information to be given me immediately of the charges & evidence against them, if any? I address you because I know not who else to address at Louisville --

Very truly yours &c Reuben Hitchcock Spl Commissioner

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Mr. Hitchcock Have attended to