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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0013 Box 80, Folder 863-64 FULTON COUNTY Recruiting and Raising Company 40th Rgt. Ky. Militia

Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) N00000873 1835-10-04 1917-08-04 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Son of Thomas N. Lindsey. Married to Catherine McIlavain Fitch Lindsey. Father of Antoinette Dumesnill Lindsey, Thomas Noble Lindsey, Jr., Henry Fitch Lindsey, Daniel Weisiger Lindsey, Jr, and Catherine F. Lindsey. Educated by B. B. Sayre in Frankfort, Kentucky. Graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1854. Attorney with Thomas N. Lindsey in Frankfort. Graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1857. Member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Masonic Lodge in Frankfort. Captain in the Kentucky State Guard in 1861. Appointed as chief of staff to General Thomas L. Crittenden in September 1861. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a Colonel from 1861 to 1863. Inspector general of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Adjutant general of Kentucky from August 1, 1864 to 1867.

Relationships Military: Charles Hayden (Frankfort, Kentucky, clerk and soldier) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Legal: Military District of Kentucky Military: James Lawson (Mercer County, KY, captain, Hall's Gap Battalion) Military: Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Emory B. Harlan (Ohio, lieut & assist adj general of Second Division, 49th Illinois Inf) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: James Reynolds (1st lieutenant, 10th Kentucky Infantry (Co. A)) Military: George B. Baum (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Military: Daniel W. Suddarth (Assistant surgeon, Capital Guard Regiment) Political: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) 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: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Henry E. Reynolds (private in 2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: Capital Guard Regiment Military: Albert Bayless (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Kentucky State Militia Familial: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: William J. Aulsebrook (Louisville, Kentucky, painter and private Frankfort Battal Cap Guard (U.S.A.)) Military: George Trulove (Trimble County, Kentucky, resident and private (U.S.A.)) Military: Arthur J. Harrington (Jefferson County, KY, printer and soldier) Economic: Kentucky State Militia Economic: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: H. C. Burriss (Kentucky) Military: [Unknown] Thomas (Colonel incarcerated in Louisville Military Prison, ) Military: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 57th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Columbus B. Saunders (Nicholasville, Kentucky, resident and lieutenant colonel) Military: James C. Guess (Fredonia, Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier) Political: United States War Department Political: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician ) Military: United States War Department Military: 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Political: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Legal: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Political: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Military: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Political: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Political: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Political: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Department of the Cumberland Political: Oliver Otis Howard (Major General (U.S. Army) and Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) Political: Clinton Bowen Fisk (St. Louis, Missouri, Brevet Major General (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) Political: John Brennan (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk; capt & maj 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Political: John J. Hawes (Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, attorney, judge advocate + capt. 1st Ky Lt.Art.) Political: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Political: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA) Military: Frederick Slater, Jr. (Dearborn County, Indiana, merchant and soldier - major, 11th Ky. Cav) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Department of the Gulf Military: 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Charles H. Edwards (Kentucky soldier - 11th Kentucky Cavalry) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Thomas W. Hewitt (Frankfort, Kentucky, medical student and surgeon (U.S.A.). ) Military: Solomon B. Bennett (Wayne County, Tennessee, farm laborer and soldier) Military: Howard Warren (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Military: Tennis W. Wade (Covington, Kentucky, painter apprentice and soldier. ) Military: Harrison Franklin Davis (Mercer County, Kentucky, farm hand and soldier (U.S.A.) ) Military: William H. Ritchey (Owen County, KY, trader and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: John J. Curtis (Mason County, Kentucky, soldier - 1st. Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Sabritt Scruggs (Washington County, Kentucky, soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: James F. Peyton (Lincoln County, Kentucky, physician and soldier - Surgeon 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Benjamin F. Lewis (Hancock County, Kentucky, soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Joseph M. Willemin (Covington, Kentucky, tailor and soldier) Military: Harry Gee (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Abraham W. Stone (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Solomon Huffman (Dearborn County, IN, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: Joseph Lawson (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District, No 1, p. 237. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 162A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 468. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 126-28. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. “Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (1835-1917),” Find A Grave, Memorial 13775691, accessed February 7, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13775691. W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) N00000887 Categories: People

Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer. Head of the Hickman, Kentucky, Board of Trade in 1863.

Relationships Economic: Hickman Board of Trade Political: Hickman Board of Trade

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 XXIII, Part I, 825-826. 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. 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. 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. 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). 40th Regiment Kentucky Militia O00000892 Categories: Organizations

State militia organization from from Fulton County, Kentucky. Commander(s): Colonel George C. Hallet (1863).

Relationships Military: Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney)

KYR-0002-022-0005 through KYR-0002-022-00010. KYR-0002-022-0017. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky O00000923 1792 Categories: Organizations

Legislative branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Comprised of the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate.

Relationships Political: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Political: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Political: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Political: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Political: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Political: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Political: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Political: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Political: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Political: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Political: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Political: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Political: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Political: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Political: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Political: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Political: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Political: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Political: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Political: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Political: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Political: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Political: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Political: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Political: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Political: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Political: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Political: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Political: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Kentucky Home Guard Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Kentucky State Militia Political: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Leonidas Polk (Louisiana, bishop and general (C.S.A.)) Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Political: T. & J. F. Jefferson Political: Martin A. Walker (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Charles Gaupin (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: William H. Landrum (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John Cullen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Francis Linnemann (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Joseph Francis Terstegge (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John Rausch Gheens (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Peter Klippel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer and flour dealer) Political: Samuel Harris (Jefferson County, KY, peddler and flour dealer) Political: Frank Struck (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Elias T. Oberdorfer (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John T. Doyle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: James Collings (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Alexander F. Clark (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale & retail grocer & flour dealer) Political: Christopher Abel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer & grocer) Political: Philip Winkler (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Joseph Martin (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale grocer & flour dealer) Political: William Gathright (Jefferson County, KY, merchant and flour dealer) Political: John R. Knott (Jefferson County, KY, clerk and flour dealer) Political: John J. Ellis (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Michael Enright (Jefferson County, KY, retail grocer & flour dealer) Political: Martin Breen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: George Hill (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: John Snyder & Co. Political: John Gaffenberger (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Thomas McGrain, Jr. (Jefferson Co, KY, & Harrison Co, IN, clerk, flour dealer & merchant) Political: Paul Wilhelm Carle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: James Kennedy (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Stege & Reiling Political: Montgomery & Bro. Political: E. T. Sale & Co. Political: Marshall Halbert & Co. Political: Castleman, Murrell & Co. Political: Lane & Bartlett Wholesale Grocers Political: Albert Engelhard (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & wholesale grocer) Political: Nock, Wicks & Co. Political: Jack & Brother Wholesale Grocers Political: G. McCullum & Co. Political: Tait, Anderson & Co. Political: Baldwin Sanderson & Co. Political: Sage Bower & Co. Political: Billing & Dreisbach Political: Smith & Smyser Political: John B. McIlvain & Son Political: John Cochran & Son Political: J. Vernon & Son Political: N. S. Glore & Co. Political: Schuler & Hutti Political: J. S. Byers & Co. Political: John C. Ameling & Co. Political: Guy & Clark Manufacturer Political: C. Bremaker & Co. Political: H. Wedekind & Co. Political: Brown & Co. Political: Brown, Bro. & Co. Political: Kennedy Mills Political: Glazebrook Brothers & Co. Political: Weller & Parker Political: John Terry & Co. Political: William Garrard Timberlake (Jefferson Co, KY, flour inspector) Political: Joab Clark (Christian Co, KY, Clerk of Circuit Court) Political: William Brown (Christian County, Kentucky, schoolteacher, farmer, and justice of the peace)

Robert M. Ireland, The Kentucky State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999). “Kentucky General Assembly.” Constitution of Kentucky, Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, 2019, apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/constitution (Accessed July 23, 2019). Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky O00000920 1793 Categories: Organizations

The office of the military officer in charge of “the better organization of the Militia, and the collection and preservation of the public arms and other property” and to “convene a court of inquiry to examine into the qualifications of persons holding any office in the Active Militia, or in the Active Reserves; and in the Enrolled Militia when in the service of the State.” Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era inspectors general: Simon Bolivar Buckner (1860-1861); unoccupied (1861-1863); Daniel W. Lindsey (1863-1865); William H. Hays (1865); and James T. Bramlette (1865-1866).

Relationships Political: John Mason Brown (Frankfort, Ky, attorney & major 10th KY Cav USA, asst inspector genl, colonel of 45th Mtd Inf USA) Military: Burgess M. Preston (Johnson County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas J. Walker (Lewis County, KY, saddler and farmer) Military: Amos J. Means (Maysville, KY, blacksmith) Military: William H. Faris (Christian County, KY, pvt, corp, QM sgt 3rd Ky Cav USA) Military: William T. King (Muhlenberg County, Ky, tinner and sgt, lieut 17th Ky Inf USA) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Thomas E. Henderson (Trigg County, KY, farmer) Military: Joseph H. Garrett (Caldwell County) Military: Rodolphus B. Ratliff (Caldwell County, KY, gunsmith, farmer, and sheriff) Military: A. Reynolds (Caldwell County, KY, hotel keeper) Military: Collins D. Bradley (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit judge, and commonwealth's attorney.) Military: John Newt Turner (Caldwell County, KY, merchant and county judge) Military: Edward P. Campbell (Caldwell County, Ky, 1865 Hopkinsville, Ky, attorney Comwlth Atty in late 1860) Military: William P. Ballard (Madison County resident and Union soldier) Military: H. H. Johnson (Lexington Captain) Military: Stephen Nethercutt (Carter County farmhand and soldier) Military: James Johnson (Breathitt County farmhand and soldier) Military: Bennett Spear, Jr. (Monroe County farmer, soldier (U.S.A.)) Military: William H. McDonald (Ballard County master tailor and soldier) Military: Samuel G. Rogers (Nicholas County constable, farmer, soldier) Military: Daniel Campbell (Perry County laborer ) Military: Greenberry Reid (Bourbon County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY)

“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), 28-33. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky 1864-01-27 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Head Quarters 40th Regt. Kentucky Militia

Hickman January 27th 1864.

General D. W. Lindsey Inspector General of Ky. General.

The great irregularity in the arrival and departure of the mails from this place, arising from the impressment of the steamboats generally, in addition to the confusion of the times, will explain the seeming remissness on my part in not responding to your letter under date of the 12th inst. The fact is, it was only received per last night's mail.

Meanwhile, I have communicated my action in reference to the confused return of the Election for Major in the 2d Bat. As you will see by reference to my report, I ordered another Election. None however was held, as no voters appeared, consequently, I recommended the appointment of W Frs Buckner Esq, by the Governor. To that, there has been no response.

By the same mail which brought me your official communication, I received a letter from Ward Boyd Esq, advising me, that he declined the appointment, and that he had so advised the Govenor. I enclose his declination herewith.

As the Militia law is very imperfect, and as there are no Battalion officers, to whom the duty of subdividing them into companies could be assigned, those such as yet no such elections have as yet been ordered. Indeed, the act of so doing will be superogatory or rather, indeed, useless. The people will give no heed to

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them. Besides, there are no men whose appointment, I either could or would recommend. Under these circumstances, what is to be done? My only answer is, amend the Law, so as to compel a draft, an ordering out of the militia by His Excellency, the Governor, and an immediate organization when they meet at their respective places of rendezvous.

Armed with the powers of the Commonwealth and sustained by the Rules and Articles of War, I will organize my force, though they were devils hot from hell, instead of beggarly sympathizers of a rebellion, which they even have been wanting in courage, actively to support by personal service.

I shall be under obligations, if you will hold me advised of the action of the Legislature, as speedily as practicable.

With great respect Your Obt Servt

G. C. Hallet Col Comdg. 40th Regt Ky. M

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Head Quarters 40th E. M. Hickman Jany 27th 1864

Col Hallet excuses delay in organizing his County and encloses declination of Maj Ward Boyd
40 Fulton

Insp Genls Office Jany 27thFeby 2nd 1864

Ward Boyd's Commission as Maj Ordered canceled on letter to the Gov and Col Hallet notified this dayJany 30th 1864.
Recd I. G. O. Feby 2nd 1864