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              <persName>Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf)</persName>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, East Maysville, p. 119A-B. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 435.</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32202784'>Robert Morrow (Knoxville, TN, asst adjt gen'l to Gen JG Foster)</rs>
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                  <bibl>Ezra J. Warner, <hi rend='italic'>Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders</hi> (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 57-8.</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32213780'>Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32210293'>G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207440'>Louis W. Little (2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202976'>Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205811'>James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32197346'>Cornelius G. Bradshaw (Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32209201'>Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32196592'>William Baker Swisher (Kansas Territory physician and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200169'>Benjamin F. Howard (Magoffin County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff; 1st lieut &amp; capt 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210046'>John M. Cook (Clay County, KY, farmer; pvt 6th KY Cav US, cpt 49th KY Inf USA, capt 6th KY Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206991'>William T. Bryant (Laurel County, Kentucky farm laborer; 2nd lieut &amp; capt 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203992'>Speed Smith Fry (Boyle County, KY, general, abuser of refugee families at Camp Nelson)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212686'>Walter M. Prentice (Cuyahoga County, Ohio, physician and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203663'>Stephen Golden  (Knox County, Kentucky, captain 49th KY Inf USA )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205639'>Jesse Mattingly (Clay County, KY, farmer;1st lieut 1st Harlan co Battalion and 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204200'>Isaac Jones Black (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer; agent, 1st lieut &amp; capt 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207537'>Philos Stratton (Madison County, Kentucky artist; adjutant, major, &amp; lt col USA )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208205'>2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206086'>William Jackson Atkins (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer. Pvt, sgt, &amp; lieut 13th KY Vol Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209574'>Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212229'>Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200908'>Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198098'>Thomas T. Sharp  (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32196876'>Andrew S. Bloom (Hamilton, Ohio, daguerreotype artist and soldier (52nd OH Inf and 7th KY Cav))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205118'>Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32212423'>47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203269'>United States Army</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213121'>John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197778'>Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214893'>William H. Norton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and 2nd lieutenant in 11th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209982'>William E. Riley (Washington County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211833'>Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202363'>11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, District 19, p. 146B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Buck Township, p. 675.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Paris, p. 170A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0095.<lb/>

John Boyle, <hi rend='italic'>Boyle Genealogy: John Boyle of Virginia and Kentucky</hi> (St. Louis, MO: Perrin &amp; Smith Printing Co., 1909), 63-65.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. vii.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>The Thirty-Fourth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, 1858</hi> (Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth Office, 1858), 9.<lb/>

"Youngest General," <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Advocate</hi> (Danville, KY), December 17, 1913, p. 1.</bibl>
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              <persName>Frederick H. Bierbower (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney. Capt &amp; major 40th KY Inf USA, Col over Camp Nelson)</persName>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32213780'>Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)</rs><lb/>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 115B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 329.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 2, p. 413.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 431.<lb/>

"Frederick Huber Bierbower (1833-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #156273789, <lb/>

accessed December 17, 2018, <a href='https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156273789.'>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156273789.</a><lb/>

Richard D. Sears, <hi rend='italic'>Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History</hi>, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 230, 244.<lb/>

KYR-0001-020-1800.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32204378P0'>Washington County, Minnesota, fruit catcher and Kentucky soldier. New York native. Son of Caleb True and Mary True. Married to Adelia B. True. Father of Hellen L. True. Student in Racine County, Wisconsin, in 1850. Fruit catcher in Washington County, Minnesota, in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from June 18, 1863, to December 30, 1864. Served in the 53rd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from April 17, 1865.
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, Racine County, Rochester, p. 185B. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Minnesota, Washington County, Stillwater, p. 509. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 459. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 435. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Democrat and Chronicle</hi> (Rochester, NY), May 9, 1889, p. 6.</bibl>
            </person>
        </listPerson>

        <listPlace>
            <place xml:id="S32197953">
              <placeName>Mount Sterling, Kentucky</placeName>
                <idno>P00001936</idno>
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003819"/> Places
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32197953P0'>Seat of Montgomery County, Kentucky.
</p>


                </note>
                <geo>38.0565, -83.9433</geo>
                  <bibl>"Mount Sterling, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

Robert M. Rennick, <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Place Names</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 205.</bibl>
            </place>
            <place xml:id="S32206277">
              <placeName>Kentucky</placeName>
                <idno>P001800</idno>
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003819"/> Places
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32206277P0'>State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
</p>


                </note>
                <geo>38.2009, -84.8733</geo>
                  <bibl>"Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992).</bibl>
            </place>
        </listPlace>
        <listOrg>
            <org xml:id="S32211760">
              <orgName>40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)</orgName>
                <idno>O00009883</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1863-07-30">
                  <ab>1863-07-30</ab>
                </event>
                <event type="ended"  when="1864-12-30">
                  <ab>1864-12-30</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32211760P0'>Organized at Grayson, Kentucky, and Falmouth, Kentucky. Mustered in on July 30, 1863, and mustered out on December 30, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Clinton J. True and Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Mullins.
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32211760P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214627'>Kentucky Central Railway</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Frederick Dyer, <hi rend='italic'>A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion</hi> (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1211.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 442.</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32199050">
              <orgName>Military District of Kentucky</orgName>
                <idno>O00000273</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1863-05-22">
                  <ab>1863-05-22</ab>
                </event>
                <event type="ended"  when="1865-01-17">
                  <ab>1865-01-17</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32199050P0'>Military district in the Department of the Ohio. Commanders: Jeremiah T. Boyle (1863); Jacob Ammen (1863-1864); Stephen G. Burbridge (1864); Edward H. Hobson (1864); and Stephen G. Burbridge (1864-1865).
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32199050P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32201789'>William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32214444'>Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32210247'>Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32213780'>Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32213235'>Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213235'>Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204892'>Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199202'>Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197066'>Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206858'>William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Ezra J. Warner, <hi rend='italic'>Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders</hi> (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 132-34.</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32214715">
              <orgName>Commonwealth of Kentucky</orgName>
                <idno>O001025</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1792">
                  <ab>1792</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32214715P0'>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).
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380.<lb/>

Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366.<lb/>

Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233.</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32210137">
              <orgName>Confederate States Army</orgName>
                <idno>O00000506</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1861">
                  <ab>1861</ab>
                </event>
                <event type="ended"  when="1865">
                  <ab>1865</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32210137P0'>Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32210137P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199982'>William Harris (possible confederate soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203269'>United States Army</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209378'>John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214878'>Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213968'>William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210257'>John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col  &amp; Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210257'>John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col  &amp; Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207646'>[Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212431'>Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201969'>Jefferson Davis (CS President)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208412'>Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199081'>Congress of the Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204676'>Provisional Council</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215130'>Provisional Government of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204676'>Provisional Council</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204262'>The People's Bank of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206571'>Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203142'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204255'>Committee on Banks</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199799'>Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215047'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197734'>John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken &amp; Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202775'>John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211822'>James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212441'>Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197272'>Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199774'>Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214027'>Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214572'>Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206562'>John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201331'>James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203833'>Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Henry Putney Beers, <hi rend='italic'>The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America</hi> (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259.</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32209346">
              <orgName>Government of the United States of America</orgName>
                <idno>O00002945</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1776-07-04">
                  <ab>1776-07-04</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32209346P0'>Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32209346P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209713'>68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32209226'>Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205358'>Leonard B. Cox  (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32198926'>William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203167'>George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213771'>Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer &amp; private 26th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32200705'>William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209669'>Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197195'>Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208012'>George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197024'>Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208954'>David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200812'>Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202047'>Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206555'>Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32198573'>John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>"America's Founding Documents," <a href='https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs'>https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs</a> (accessed on December 1, 2017).</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32203269">
              <orgName>United States Army</orgName>
                <idno>O00001186</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1775">
                  <ab>1775</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32203269P0'>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.
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32203269P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209873'>James Olney (possible U. S. soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201650'>Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer &amp; pvt 19th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212080'>Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210798'>Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203154'>Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211140'>Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203292'>14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211754'>Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209801'>J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel")</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213780'>Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209943'>Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205851'>Army of the Ohio</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199050'>Military District of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203916'>Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212591'>Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206173'>Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203956'>Charles David Pennebaker  (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep &amp; senator; col 27th KY Inf USA &amp; state military agent)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208496'>John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210111'>James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210903'>Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204985'>Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203203'>35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212766'>Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213452'>Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.)  )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199627'>William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203286'>Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32215025'>William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32209346'>Government of the United States of America</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214572'>Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206562'>John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200746'>John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214407'>Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199230'>John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208217'>Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198955'>Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212861'>Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202182'>United States War Department</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213278'>Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210818'>[Unknown] Johnson ()</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204608'>Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209590'>Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209669'>Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197195'>Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207209'>Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212835'>Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210806'>Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207672'>Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204488'>Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210274'>Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201909'>Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211811'>Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)</rs>
</p>


                </note>
                  <bibl>Richard W. Stewart, ed. <hi rend='italic'>American Military History</hi> (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009).</bibl>
            </org>
            <org xml:id="S32206781">
              <orgName>Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky</orgName>
                <idno>O00000388</idno>
                <event type="begun"  when="1793">
                  <ab>1793</ab>
                </event>
 
                <note type="categorization">
                  Categories:
                    <ab>
                      <ptr ana="#category #leaf #root" target="#C32003821">Organizations</ptr>
                    </ab>
                </note>
                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32206781P0'>The office of the chief military officer and advisor to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era Adjutant Generals: Scott Brown (1859-1861); John W. Finnell (1861-1863); John Boyle (1863-1864); Daniel W. Lindsey (1864-1867).
</p>

<p xml:id='OTPS32206781P1'>Relationships<lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208701'>Hall's Gap Battalion</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197240'>Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General &amp; Inspector General)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32214779'>John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198672'>John L. Lamb (Kentucky, soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215256'>Douglas Jones (Union County, laborer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200756'>Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205099'>Houston L. Keesee (Union County, farmer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199108'>Alderson T. Keen (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210307'>Silas Adams (Union Lt. Col, kentucky attorney.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213477'>Francis M. Helveti (1st ky cavalry and professor)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207500'>1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211957'>Albert G. Huffman (1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197809'>George H. Norton  (Private and hospital steward in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197704'>Granville Jasper Vaught  (1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32209035'>John Brent Fishback (Louisville/Garrard/Pulaski /1st KY Cav)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198387'>Josiah "Joe" D. Beatie (Pulaski Co, KY, corp, 2d Lieut, &amp; Capt1st ky cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201804'>Thomas J. Graves (Russell County, KY, 1st sgt &amp; 1st Lieut 1st Ky Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198242'>James L. Pankey (1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199041'>Tilford N. Bruner (1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200199'>Phillip Roberts (1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207347'>George Watkins Drye (Casey County, KY, Major in 1st Ky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207819'>Thomas Rowland  (Cumberland Co, Ky; sgt, lieut, maj in 1st Ky Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215094'>William D. Carpenter (1st Ky Cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202674'>Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32201772'>S. J. Layman (Assistant surgeon for 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213517'>Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private &amp; first sergeant)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203055'>John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197240'>Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General &amp; Inspector General)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199911'>Robert Armstrong Athey (Kenton County, lawyer, asst. adjutant general for KY vols (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200504'>Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212722'>Robert L. Wilson (Crittenden County, KY, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208063'>Kentucky Home Guard</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206659'>Kentucky State Militia</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210883'>William Pope Anderson  (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213452'>Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.)  )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213767'>Kentucky Volunteers</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214779'>John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32211833'>Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212766'>Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208217'>Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204892'>Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32199202'>Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32197066'>Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206858'>William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)</rs>
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          <p corresp='TTP35096319P0' xml:id='OTP35096319P0'>Head Quarters, ^<rs ref='#S32211760'>40" Ky. Vol</rs>^ 2nd Brig. 1st Div. <rs ref='#S32199050'>Dist. Ky</rs>.
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<p corresp='TTP35096319P1' xml:id='OTP35096319P1'><rs ref='#S32197953'>Mt. Sterling</rs>, <rs ref='#S32206277'>Ky.</rs> <date when='1864-04-28'>Apl. 28<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>th</hi></hi> 1864</date>.<lb/>
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<rs ref='#S32205846'>Thos E. Bramlette</rs>.
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<p corresp='TTP35096319P2' xml:id='OTP35096319P2'>Governor of <rs ref='#S32214715'>Ky.</rs><lb/>
Governor --
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<p corresp='TTP35096319P3' xml:id='OTP35096319P3'>I have learned this morning with sincere regret that the Dept. has refused to commission Sgt. <rs ref='#S32205193'>Mark Wallace</rs> of this Regiment as a 2<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> Lieutenant for the alleged reason that he was formerly in the <rs ref='#S32210137'>Rebel service</rs>.
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<p corresp='TTP35096319P4' xml:id='OTP35096319P4'>The facts in the case are briefly these, Sgt. Wallace was induced to meet with some persons who were about to ^proceed to^ the Rebel lines with the intention of entering the Rebel service. Mr. Wallace desired to leave the party but was forcibly detained and when the men were captured he gave useful and important information that enabled us to destroy the organization to which they belonged. Since that time Mr. Wallace has been constantly with the Regiment and gave material aid in recruiting it. He is, and has been a zealous <rs ref='#S32209346'>Union</rs> man, He has three brothers in the
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<p corresp='TTP35096320P1' xml:id='OTP35096320P1'>I have been an Officer in the <rs ref='#S32203269'>U. S. service</rs> for more than six years and aided in the capture of the men by whom Mr.. Wallace was detained and I am very sure that I would never solicit the appointment of any man whose devotion to the Union admitted of the slightesd question of doubt.
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<p corresp='TTP35096320P2' xml:id='OTP35096320P2'><rs ref='#S32201586'>Genl. Burnside</rs> released Mr. Wallace from the custody of the Federal troops with the highest praise for his conduct in the whole affair.
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<p corresp='TTP35096320P4' xml:id='OTP35096320P4'>I am, very Resp'y.<lb/>
Your obt. Servt<lb/>
<rs ref='#S32211178'>F. H. Bierbower.</rs><lb/>
Major. 40" Ky, V. M I.
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Mt Sterling Ky<lb/>
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Bierbower F. H. <lb/>
Maj. 40<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>th</hi></hi> I.<figure type='hr'/>
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<p corresp='TTP35096322P2' xml:id='OTP35096322P2'>To the Governor in relation to the loyalty of Mack Wallace who has been recommended by <rs ref='#S32204378'>Col True</rs> for 2<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> Lt, but com<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> suspended from information of his disloyalty Maj B states that he is loyal and his promotion would give satisfaction<figure type='hr'/>
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<p corresp='TTP35096322P5' xml:id='OTP35096322P5'>Rec<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> <rs ref='#S32206781'>A G. O.</rs> <date when='1864-04-30'>30<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>th</hi></hi> Apr<hi rend='sup'>l</hi> 1864</date>
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