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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0012 Box 80, Folder 863-64 FULTON COUNTY Recruiting and Raising Company 40th Rgt. Ky. Militia

Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) N00000888 1864 Categories: People

Fulton County, Kentucky, soldier, judge, and attorney. City judge of Hickman, Kentucky, in 1863. County attorney of Fulton County in 1863. Served in the 40th Kentucky Militia Regiment of Fulton County as colonel in 1863 and 1864.

Relationships Social: Harlan & Harlan Social: James J. Miller (editor) Social: Richard "Dick" Rowan Bolling (Kentucky attorney and court clerk) Social: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) 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.) Social: Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals) Military: 40th Regiment Kentucky Militia Political: John A. Wilson (Fulton County, Kentucky, court clerk) Military: John A. Wilson (Fulton County, Kentucky, court clerk) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: Kentucky State Guard Social: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Social: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Fulton County Court

_ Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Fulton County Wills, 1845-1923 (accessed through Ancestry.com on February 7, 2020), p. 87, p. 78 of microfilm. _The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889) series I, vol 23, part 1, 825-26. KYR-0001-029-0508. KYR-0002-022-0005. KYR-0002-022-0017. 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. Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney) N00000929 1835? Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Linn E. Boyd. Father of Ward Boyd, Felix Boyd, and Butler Boyd. Attorney in McCracken County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in McCracken County in 1860. Appointed deputy postmaster in Paducah, Kentucky in 1860. Declined a commission as Major in the 40th Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) in January 1864.

Relationships Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District No 2, p. 97. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 13. Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, vol. 11 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887), 242. KYR-0002-009-0010. Fulton County, Kentucky P00000889 Categories: Places

Furthest west county of Kentucky. Seat at Hickman. Located on the Mississippi River.

36.563, -89.1325 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 111, 138. Ron D. Bryant, “Fulton,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 360-361. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Fulton County, Kentucky " https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 7, 2020). Hickman, Kentucky P00002504 Categories: Places

Seat of Fulton County, Kentucky. Located on the Mississippi River.

36.5712, -89.1862 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), p. 138. Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky 1864-01-11 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Fulton Co Ky Jan 11th 1864 Col G. C. Hallet, Hickman Ky. Dr Sir

Your note together with Govr's commission is to hand. In order that you may not be retarded in the organization of your regiment, I deem it my duty to inform you at once, that having been elected without my knowledge or consent to the position, the duties of which I am wholy unqualified to perform' I have written a note to the Governor declining the appointment,

Yours Respectfully. Ward Boyd

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Ward Boyd Esq RecdJany 27, 1864