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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 45th, 47th, 48th, and 49th Regiments Kentucky Infantry Muster Rolls KYR-0002-009-0007 Box 41, Bundle 1

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky John Carter Ball (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer and QM 40th KY Inf) N00011755 1806-11-20 1897-07-14 Categories: People

Carter County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Julina W. Ball. Father of Susan Ball, John Ball, Rebecca Ball, Elizabeth Ball, Henry Ball, Sarah "Sally" Ball, Thomas Ball, Robert C. Ball, James Ball, George Ball, and Alice Ball. Farmer in Carter County in 1850. Employed Edwin Colegrove as a laborer in Carter County in 1850. Farmer in Carter County in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as quarter-master from July 3, 1863, to March 20, 1864.

Relationships Economic: William Bowling (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician.) Military: John McAllister Schofield (West Point, New York, instructor & major general) Military: Jonathan Bates Dickson (Illinois, lieut 12th Ill Vols, capt in US AGO) Military: 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 48th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, District No. 2, p. 215A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, p. 254. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Clinton County, Lafayette Township, p. 74A. Records of the Internal Revenue Service, NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 21, 1864. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 424. Find A Grave, "John Carter Ball (1806-1897)," Memorial #17630875, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17630875 (accessed January 13, 2020). John McAllister Schofield (West Point, New York, instructor & major general) N00012695 1831-09-29 1906-03-04 Categories: People

New York, soldier and professor. Chautauqua County, New York, native. Son of James Schofield and Carolina McAllister Schofield. Married to Harriet Bartlett Schofield in June 1857. Father of John Rathbone Schofield, William Bartlett Schofield, and Mary Campbell Schofield. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Orange County, New York, in 1853. Served in the 1st Regiment of Artillery (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from 1853 to 1855. Assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1855 to 1860. Professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1860 to April 1861. Served in the 1st Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major in 1861. Served in the United States Army as a major, brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general from 1861 to 1895.

Relationships Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Samuel A. Miller (Olmsted County, Minnesota, pvt 2nd MN Inf, lieut and captain 1st KY Lt Art USA) Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: James William Finnie (Union County, Kentucky, farmer, judge, soldier, and politician. ) Military: United States Army Military: United States War Department Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Jonathan Bates Dickson (Illinois, lieut 12th Ill Vols, capt in US AGO)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, Cornwall, p. 173B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, Orange County, Cornwall and West Point, p. 13. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth Reservation, p. 197A. "To the Great Commander," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 5, 1906, p. 1. "Schofield, John McAllister," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. V, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 424. The Civil War in America: Biographies, Library of Congress, accessed May 19, 2020, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-war-in-america/biographies/john-m-schofield.html. Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Necrology of the Commandery of District of Columbia, 1908: Companion John McAllister Schofield, Lieutenant General, United States Army (Washington, D.C.: Press of Gibson Brothers, 1908). "John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial 1917, accessed October 9, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1917. Jonathan Bates Dickson (Illinois, lieut 12th Ill Vols, capt in US AGO) N00012726 1833-02-09 1877-02-21 Categories: People

Galena, Illinois, china merchant and soldier. Massachusetts native. Son of Joshua G. Dickson and Sarah Dickson. Resident of Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1850. Attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1851. China merchant in Galena, Illinois, in 1860. Employed M. Dickson as a clerk in Galena in 1860. Employed Margaret McDonald as a house servant in Galena in 1860. Served in the 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant and first lieutenant from April 27, 1861, to May 1, 1862. Served in the Adjutant General's Office of the Department of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as a captain from May 1, 1862, to June 24, 1865.

Relationships Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Political: John McAllister Schofield (West Point, New York, instructor & major general)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Mill Creek, p. 68A. Eight Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Jo Daviess County, Galena, Ward 2, p. 385. U.S. School Catalogs, 1765-1935, Harvard College, 1851, p. 35. Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois U.S. Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976, Illinois 1861-1862. Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from it's Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 p. 373. "Maj J. Bates Dickson (1833-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 109784356, accessed May 26, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109784356. Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). 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. Department of the Ohio O001001 1861-05-09 1866-08-06 Categories: Organizations

This department existed in three separate periods. This department was created on May 3, 1861. It was geographically defined by the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. On May 9, 1861, the department was expanded to include portions of Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The department was reconfigured to include Indiana, Ohio, and a portion of Western Virginia, removing the state of Illinois and portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland. On September 19, 1861, the department was redefined as the states of Indiana and Ohio, and the area of Kentucky within fifteen miles of Cincinnati, Ohio. And on November 9, 1861, the department was redefined as the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, and the portions of Kentucky east of the Cumberland River. This department was disbanded on March 11, 1862 and combined with the Mountain Department and the Department of the Mississippi. Commander(s): George B. McClellan, William S. Rosecrans, Ormsby M. Mitchel, and Don Carlos Buell.

The second was created on August 19, 1862. It was geographically defined as the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, the portion of Kentucky east of the Tennessee River, and inclusive of Cumberland Gap and all Federal forces operating in its vicinity. Wisconsin transferred to the Department of the Northwest on September 6, 1862. On September 19, 1862, Alton, Illinois transferred to the Department of Missouri and all of Western Virginia joined the Department of the Ohio. Cairo, Illinois transferred to the Department of the Tennessee on October 16, 1862. On March 16, 1863, all of Western Virginia moved to the Middle Department. Gallipolis, Ohio and the Ohio shoreline opposite the mouth of Kanawha River joined the Middle Department on June 9, 1863. On June 9, 1863, Columbiana, Jefferson, and Belmont Counties in Ohio joined the Department of the Monongahela. On June 23, 1863, Monroe, Athens, Washington, Meigs, Gallia, and Lawrence Counties in Ohio joined the Middle Department. The department joined the Military Division of the Mississippi on October 16, 1863, joining the Departments of the Cumberland and the Tennessee. On November 16, 1863, the department was reconfigured to include the portions of Kentucky east of the Tennessee River and parts of East Tennessee under the control of the Army of the Ohio. Jeffersonville, Indiana joined the department on February 8, 1864. Covington, Kentucky and the surrounding fifteen mile radius joined the Northern Department. This department was disbanded on January 17, 1865 and joined the Department of the Cumberland. Commander(s): Horatio G. Wright, Ambrose E. Burnside, John G. Foster, John M. Schofield, and George Stoneman.

The third was created on June 27, 1865. It was geographically defined as the states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, with the exception of Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana. The state of Wisconsin was added to the department on October 30, 1865. On June 5, 1866, the Department of Kentucky—along with Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana—were added to the department. This department was disbanded on August 6, 1866 and consolidated into the Department of the Lakes. Commander(s): Edward O. C. Ord and Orlando B. Wilcox.

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 126-37. Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) O00010608 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Chief administrative office of the U.S. Army. Operated from 1847 to 1964. Responsible for organizing recruits into companies and regiments with the assistance of state adjutant generals. Adjutant general during the Civil War: Lorenzo Thomas (1861-1869).

Relationships Political: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Stephen E. Bower, A Short History of the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps, 1775-2013, (Fort Jackson, SC: U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute, 2013). 48th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00008607 1863-10-26 1864-12-19 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Princeton, Kentucky. Mustered in on October 26, 1863, and mustered out on December 19, 1864. Officer(s): Colonel Hartwell T. Burge and Lieutenant Colonel William W. Hester.

Relationships Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier)

Frederick Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1211. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 1861-1866, (Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 475. Paymaster Department O00018493 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Paymaster Department of the United States Army. Paymasters Generals: Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, Colonel Timothy P. Andrews, Colonel Benjamin W. Brice.

Colonel A. B. Carey, “The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief, The Pay Department,” The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief ed. Theophilus Francis Rodenbough and William L. Haskin (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1896), 100-110. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) 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: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00009883 1863-07-30 1864-12-30 Categories: Organizations

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.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Central Railway

Frederick Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1211. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 442. Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky O00000388 1793 Categories: Organizations

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).

Relationships Military: Hall's Gap Battalion Political: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: John L. Lamb (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Douglas Jones (Union County, laborer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Houston L. Keesee (Union County, farmer and soldier) Military: Alderson T. Keen (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Silas Adams (Union Lt. Col, kentucky attorney.) Military: Francis M. Helveti (1st ky cavalry and professor) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Albert G. Huffman (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George H. Norton (Private and hospital steward in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry ) Military: Granville Jasper Vaught (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: John Brent Fishback (Louisville/Garrard/Pulaski /1st KY Cav) Military: Josiah "Joe" D. Beatie (Pulaski Co, KY, corp, 2d Lieut, & Capt1st ky cav USA) Military: Thomas J. Graves (Russell County, KY, 1st sgt & 1st Lieut 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: James L. Pankey (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Tilford N. Bruner (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Phillip Roberts (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George Watkins Drye (Casey County, KY, Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Thomas Rowland (Cumberland Co, Ky; sgt, lieut, maj in 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: William D. Carpenter (1st Ky Cavalry regiment) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: S. J. Layman (Assistant surgeon for 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Robert Armstrong Athey (Kenton County, lawyer, asst. adjutant general for KY vols (U.S.A.)) Military: Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Robert L. Wilson (Crittenden County, KY, farmer) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Political: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: 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)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1864-03-19 Order 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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Department of the Ohio, Branch Office, Adjutant General's Department, Lexington, Kentucky, March 19th, 1864.

Special Orders, No. 75 [Extract.]

5 The resignation of 1st Lieutenant John C, Ball R, Q, M 48th Ky. Vol. Infantryis hereby accepted, to take effect March 20th, 1864, with the condition that he shall recieve no final payments until he has satisfied the Pay Department that he is in no wise indebted to the Government.

By Command of Major General Schofield: J. Bates Dickson Assistant Adjutant General.

Gov. Ky, Frankfort, Ky,

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40th Infy.

Ball Jno. C. R. Q. M.
Order accepting Resignation
Recd A. G. OMarch 23 1864