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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, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0101 R3-157

Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) N00000881 1793-11-29 1881-08-22 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, politician, and public servant. Clark County, Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson Combs. Married to Margaret Trotter Combs in 1819. Married to Mary Elizabeth Brownell Combs in 1849. Father of Lizzie B. Combs, Leslie Combs, and F. H. Combs. Educated by the Reverend John Lysle. Deputy clerk of the Courts of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Cadet in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General James Winchester and in various capacities under General William Henry Harrison, General Green Clay. Completed education in 1816 and read law with Samuel Q. Richardson in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1818. Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Raised a regiment in response to the Texas Revolution in 1836. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1827 to 1829, in 1833, from 1845 to 1847, and from 1857 to 1859. Delegate to the Whig Party Convention, supporting the nomination of Henry Clay, in 1840. Canvassed for William Henry Harrison in the Presidential Election of 1840. Unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives of the United States against John C. Breckinridge in 1851. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Legal: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.) Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Nathaniel N. Cowgill (Fulton County, KY, minister) Legal: Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) Legal: A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Marion Circuit Court Social: Thomas John Chesnutt (Franklin County soldier and clerk) Social: Richard "Dick" Rowan Bolling (Kentucky attorney and court clerk) Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Social: Ira Hart Stout (St. Louis, Missouri, resident and soldier.) Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 102. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 79-80. Lewis Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 170. Find A Grave, "Gen Leslie Combs (November 29, 1793-August 22, 1881)," Memorial #8875416, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8875416 (accessed February 9, 2017). 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. Ira Hart Stout (St. Louis, Missouri, resident and soldier.) N00017574 1839? 1879-09-10 Categories: People

St. Louis, Missouri, resident and soldier. Missouri native. Son of Ira Stout and Catherine Stout. Married to Sarah Woolfolk Stout. Father of P. Willis Stout, David Stout, and Wilbur Stout. Served as third major in the 12th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) from November 17, 1862, to January 7, 1863.

Relationships Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Louis County, St. Louis, Eighth Ward, pp. 312-313. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Louis County, St. Louis/Ward 2, p. 414B. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0121. Missouri, US, Death Records, 1850-1931, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri, Roll #315, Louis County Deaths, 1878-1880. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), pp. 302-303. "Burial Permits," St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri), September 12, 1879, p. 2. Hawesville, Kentucky P001817 Categories: Places

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

37.9001, -86.755 “Hawesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 27, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. John E. Kleber, ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 419. Hancock County, Kentucky P001816 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hawesville. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8281, -86.7617 "Hancock County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lee A. Dew, "Hancock County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 401-02. 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). United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

The volunteer and active militia from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Existed from 1860 to 1865. Commander(s): Simon Bolivar Buckner, John W. Finnell, Daniel W. Lindsey.

Relationships Military: 38th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Greenfield M. Witten (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman) Military: Alexander G. Hamilton (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Robert S. Friend (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Edwin Trimble (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Alexander L. Martin (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Military: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Military: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Military: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Francis M. Vaughn (Kentucky soldier) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: James A. Stamper (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: [unknown] Drerren (Soldier, 71st Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Military: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Military: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Military: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Military: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“An Act for the Better Organization of the Kentucky Militia,” Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 1 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. 1862-10-25 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Oct 25 62 Gen Lesly Coombs

Dear Friend I have just received a line from home the Devils are committing all kinds of devilment -- I leave on the 3 oclock train -- I leave all the papers with you for God and our countries sake get from the Governor authority for me to raise men to expell these fiends from our land we are forty miles from any Union troops -- I can rais sufficient men to exterminate these theives and trators do any thing get a commission to rais a regiment a brigade a company any authority to rais even a Company either as State Guardsnine months men -- any kind of araisso I can act,if the Governor does not do it we are lost -- as I told you a price is set on my head -- they may get it I would rather live but am not a fraid to loose my life in this cause but will try to make these hill hound pay for yelping on my trail

I am your old friend Ira Stout

Direct an answer to me at HawsvillHancock Co Ky in haste

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Stout Ira

RedOct 27/62 Issd 29th will write again --

Memo

The Gov will please read & consider this letter with the other papers handed him

Leslie Combs