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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0027 Box 80, Folder 863-65 GRAYSON COUNTY Recruiting & Raising Company 45th Rgt. Ky. Militia

Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) N00000879 1839-08-16 1913-12-13 Categories: People

Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General. Illinois native. Son of James Madison Boyle and Sarah Ann Decker Boyle. Married to Jane "Jennie" Porter Looney Boyle in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, on September 17, 1863. Attended school in Edgar County, Illinois, in 1850. Attended Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1858. Attorney in Edgar County in 1860. Served in the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as assistant adjutant general. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from August 22, 1862, to August 21, 1863. Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to August 1, 1864.

Relationships Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) Political: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) Political: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: Louis W. Little (2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier) Military: [unknown] Shanks (Major, U.S.A.) Military: Cornelius G. Bradshaw (Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.)) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: James W. Weatherford (Colonel in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: William W. Woodward (Montgomery County, Ohio, fruit tree producer; 2nd lieut & capt 2nd OH Cav USA; col 116th USCT Inf ) Military: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician ) Military: William Baker Swisher (Kansas Territory physician and soldier) Military: Benjamin F. Howard (Magoffin County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff; 1st lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: John M. Cook (Clay County, KY, farmer; pvt 6th KY Cav US, cpt 49th KY Inf USA, capt 6th KY Cav USA) Military: William T. Bryant (Laurel County, Kentucky farm laborer; 2nd lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Speed Smith Fry (Boyle County, KY, general, abuser of refugee families at Camp Nelson) Military: Walter M. Prentice (Cuyahoga County, Ohio, physician and soldier) Military: Stephen Golden (Knox County, Kentucky, captain 49th KY Inf USA ) Military: Jesse Mattingly (Clay County, KY, farmer;1st lieut 1st Harlan co Battalion and 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Isaac Jones Black (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer; agent, 1st lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Philos Stratton (Madison County, Kentucky artist; adjutant, major, & lt col USA ) Military: 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: William Jackson Atkins (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer. Pvt, sgt, & lieut 13th KY Vol Inf USA) Military: Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA) Military: Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier) Military: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Military: Andrew S. Bloom (Hamilton, Ohio, daguerreotype artist and soldier (52nd OH Inf and 7th KY Cav)) Military: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: United States Army Military: John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: William H. Norton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and 2nd lieutenant in 11th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.)) Military: William E. Riley (Washington County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, District 19, p. 146B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Buck Township, p. 675. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Paris, p. 170A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0095. John Boyle, Boyle Genealogy: John Boyle of Virginia and Kentucky (St. Louis, MO: Perrin & Smith Printing Co., 1909), 63-65. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. vii. The Thirty-Fourth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, 1858 (Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth Office, 1858), 9. "Youngest General," Kentucky Advocate (Danville, KY), December 17, 1913, p. 1. Alexander McDowell McCook (Union General) N00001835 1831-04-22 1903-06-12 Categories: People

Ohio soldier. Ohio native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852. Served in the 3rd Infantry in 1852. Instructor of tactics at West Point in the late 1850s. Colonel of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from April 1861 to September 1861. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 3, 1861. Promoted to major general of volunteers in July 1862. Command taken away after Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 and not reassigned to command troops until November 1864.

Relationships Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 294-295. Charles Wortham, Sr. (Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) N00001834 1802? Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Wortham. Justice of the peace in Grayson County in 1847. Farmer in Grayson County in 1860. Judge of the Grayson County Court in Grayson County from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 148. Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, ed., The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847 (Louisville: Morton & Griwswold, 1847), 88-89. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Isaac Ferry (17th Kentucky Infantry Regiment) N00001836 1832? Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Ferry and Ruth Ferry. Farmer in Grayson County in 1860. First sergeant in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from January 1862 to January 1863. Second lieutenant in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from January 1863 to October 1863. First lieutenant in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from November 1863 to May 1864. Captain in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from May 1864 to January 1865.

Relationships Military: 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 940-941, 944-945, 952-953, 964-965. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 76. Anderson Rowan Byers (Grayson County, Kentucky, physician and soldier) N00001839 1822? Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Lived in Grayson County, Kentucky in 1860. Married to to Elizabeth Park Byers. Father of Mary E Byers, Jesse Anderson Byers, Charles C. Byers, Erasmus B. Byers, and Otha E. Byers. Physician in Grayson County in 1860. First lieutenant in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from October 1863 to December 1864.

Relationships Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 363. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 111. Thomas R. McBeath (Quarter Master of 27th Kentucky Infantry) N00001838 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Quarter master of the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from March 1862 to March 1865.

Relationships Military: 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 232-233. John R. Grissom (Daviess Co, KY, tailor; Provost Marshal, 2nd Military District of Kentucky) N00001837 1828? Categories: People

Daviess County, Kentucky, tailor and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Augustus Grissom. Father of John R. Grissom, Jr. Tailor in Daviess County in 1860. Captain and provost marshal for the 2nd District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District No. 1, p. 15. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900) Series 3, vol 4, 648-49. The Army & Navy Official Gazette vol. II, 1864-65, No. 36 (Washington, D.C.: Office of F. & J. Rives, 1865), March 7, 1865, 570-72. Stephen Gray Crawford (Grayson County Farmer) N00001840 1842-07-27 Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Hugh C. Crawford and Rebecca Crawford. Married to Sultana Crawford. Farm laborer in Grayson County in 1860. Captain and lieutenant colonel in the 45th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1863. Appointed as a U.S. Marshall of Leitchfield, Kentucky, with the rank of captain in July 1863. Stationed at Camp Calloway. Enrolling officer for Grayson County in 1863. Deputy provost marshal in the 2nd Military District of Kentucky in 1863. Reassigned to Louisville from 1864 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, p. 101. Howard Louis Conard, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference, vol. 2 (New York: Haldeman, Conard & Company, proprietors, 1901),186-187. KYR-0002-022-0027. 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. Parish G. Reese (Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer & Col 45th Reg KY Militia) N00000941 1825? Categories: People

Grayson County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Sallie A. Oldacre Reese. Father of Sarah F. Reese, Lillie A. A. Reese, and Lauriston L. Reese. Served in the 45th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) as colonel in Grayson County in 1863 and 1864.

Relationships Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: 45th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: David Johnston (Grayson County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Grayson County Home Guard

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Division 2, p. 252B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, Russell District p. 683. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grayson County, Leitchfield Precinct, p. 353A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1965), KDLA, Film #994027-994058: Jefferson, Russell County Births, 1855, p. 1 of 4 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com). W. Stephen McBride, “The Union Occupation of Munfordville, Kentucky, 1861-1865: A Narrative Summary,” (Lexington, Kentucky), 46-47. KYR-0002-022-0023. Litchfield, Kentucky P00001141 Categories: Places

Seat of Grayson County, Kentucky. Current spelling of Leitchfield not adopted until 1877.

37.4801, -86.2939 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 169. Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, “Grayson County Place Names,” Morehead State University, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennickmscollection/ (accessed October 29, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Leitchfield, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 27, 2020). Hardin County, Kentucky P00001583 Categories: Places

County in west central Kentucky. Seat at Elizabethtown. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7031, -85.8649 "Elizabethtown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed January 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. “Hardin County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 404-05. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), p. 130. Grayson County, Kentucky P00000940 Categories: Places

Seat at Leitchfield.

37.4555, -86.3782 Mark E. Nevils, "Grayson County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 385-6. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 124. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Grayson County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 27, 2020). Louisville Journal O001002 1830 1868 Categories: Organizations

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper. Owners(s): A. J. Buxton and George W. Weissinger. Editor(s): George D. Prentice.

Betty Carolyn Congleton, "Louisville Journal" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 582-83. Kentucky Volunteers O00000870 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

The official organization of Kentucky military forces under the command of the Adjutant General of Kentucky. Organized into infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments. 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: George Reid Barber (Captain Barber's Company) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Fleming County State Guard (Captain Barber's Company) Military: Charles Hayden (Frankfort, Kentucky, clerk and soldier) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: George B. Baum (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Arthur J. Harrington (Jefferson County, KY, printer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: Alexander James Umphrey (NYC, NY, private(U.S.A.)) Military: Charles R. Griffith (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and treasurer ) Economic: Louisville & Nashville Railroad Military: Robert G. Purdy (Marion County, KY, blacksmith and soldier (U.S.A.)) Military: Frank P. Cahill (Cincinnati, Ohio, hotelkeeper & capt, maj, & lt col 1st KY Inf USA) Military: William H. Taylor (Kenton County, Kentucky, clerk, 1st lieut & pvt 2nd Ky Inf, ) Military: Samuel L. Christie (Cincinnati, Ohio,1st lieut & capt 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas Foreman (Jeffersonville, Indiana, lieut & capt 5th Ky Inf USA) Military: Robert Stuart (Lincoln County, Tennessee, physician and asst surg 2nd Ky Cav USA) Military: George A. Little (Daviess, KY, capt 17th Ky Inf USA) Military: John D. Lenahan (Louisville, Kentucky painter and soldier) Military: John Francis Wisnewski (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio glycerin maker and soldier) Military: Henry Frederick Kalfus (Bullitt County, Kentucky, physician, major (U.S.A.)) Military: George A. Richardson (Louisville, Kentucky pilot and soldier) Military: Abram P. Brown (Kentucky soldier) Military: Oscar D. Kress (Clark County, Kentucky soldier) Military: George A. Hanniford (Kentucky 1st lieut 49th Ky Inf USA) Military: James M. Bailey (Logan County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon 26th Ky Inf USA, acting chief surgeon of US forces 1863) Military: Frederick Guy (Clark County, Indiana, clerk, farmer, 26th Ky Inf USA) Military: Milton A. Sivey (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky soldier) Military: Emory R. Harrington (Boyle County, Kentucky silversmith, 4th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Military: Allen S. Whetstone (Ohio soldier) Military: Henry P. Merrill (Michigan soldier) Military: Alvin O. Pattee (Kentucky butcher and soldier) Military: Edmund B. Randolph (Kentucky soldier) Military: William W. Sanders (Boyle County, Kentucky, 1st lieut & capt 4th KY Inf USA) Military: James A. Moores (Estill County, Kentucky laborer and soldier) Military: John W. Combs (Monroe County, Kentucky, constable and soldier) Military: James Peter Hiatt (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Peter Hinkle (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieut & capt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: Hugh White Adams (Knox County, KY, clerk and lt thru maj 7th KY Inf USA) Military: David C. Thurman (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer and sgt. ;ieut 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Shadrach L. Mitchell (Lewis County, Kentucky, artist and soldier) Military: Joseph H. Davis (Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer and lieut 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: William Sears (Whitley County, Kentucky, farmer, boat builder, and capt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: James H. Tinsley (Knox County, Kentucky, sgt, lieut & adj in 3rd Ky Inf, 7th Ky Inf, 49th Ky Inf USA) Military: John B. Stivers (Bourbon County, KY, carpenter and 2nd lieut 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas H. Wilson (Jackson County, Kentucky, merchant; sgt, lieut, & capt 7th KY Inf USA) Military: Elhannon W. Murphy (Clay County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: William Berry (McLean County, Kentucky, physician &surgeon 7th KY Inf USA) Military: Edward R. Palmer (Louisville, KY, physician, army surgeon, VT clerk) Military: William. T. Morrow (Bullitt County, Kentucky, farm laborer & 28th KY Inf corporal, 1st lieut & commissary sgt) Military: Williamson W. Bacon (Jefferson County, KY, 22nd Inf: 1st sgt, 2nd lieut, & capt; 7th Inf: capt) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 28th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (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: 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866). Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

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

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

“An Act for the Better Organization of the Kentucky Militia,” Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 1 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Kentucky Home Guard O00000902 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

County level military organization primarily comprised of Union soldiers. Created in 1861 to counter the southern aligned Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Curran Pope (Louisville, KY, attorney, trustee, and colonel 5th KY Inf) Military: B. F. Wilson (Kentucky, resident) Military: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Nicky Hughes, “Home Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 438. 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00002664 1862-01-04 1865-01-23 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on January 4, 1862. Mustered out of service on January 23, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel James M. Shackelford, Colonel John H. McHenry, Jr., and Colonel Alexander M. Stout.

Relationships Military: Curtis A. Brasher (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and 2nd lieutenant in 17th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.)) Military: Linus Fuller (Grayson County, Kentucky, farm laborer and pvt, corp, 1st sgt, 1st lieut17th Ky InfUSA) Military: Samuel T. Fruit (Christian County, Ky, farmer; 2nd lieut 25th Ky Inf; 2nd lieut & captain 17th Ky Inf USA) Military: David Duncan (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, resident and corp thru captain 17th Ky Inf USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 985. Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1204-05. 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00001586 1863-10-02 1864-12-29 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Owensboro, Kentucky. Mustered in on October 2, 1863 and mustered out on December 29, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Edmund A. Starling.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 368. 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00001585 1862-03-21 1865-03-29 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Grayson Springs, Kentucky. Mustered in on March 21, 1862, and mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on March 29, 1865, with recruits transferred to the 6th Kentucky Veteran Cavalry. Commander(s): Colonel C. D. Pennebaker and Colonel John H. Ward.

Relationships Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 232-3, 259-60. 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. Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky 1863-10-20 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Litchfield Ky oct 20th 1863 Mr John Boyle Esq

Sir I noticed an order in the Louisville Journal you directting Some friend to his County to assist Some in this order which you had issued for each county to raise one company of men as State vol and you wishing Some person to Send on for a Lieu Col or Col Ship in some county I wish the Commision of a Lieu Col as to my military Capacities I was first a Capt in the State or home Guards and I received my Comission from Gen McCook at camp Nevin in Hardon Co Ky. in Oct 1861 and I dun all in my power ever since that time to put down this rebellion and on the 7th of last July I was appointed as Enrooling Officer of Grayson Co and I completed my work and since that time I have been dept prov mar in the 2nd dist of Ky

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as to refrences you may apply to Judge D Wortham the Judege of Grayson Co to Lieut Ferry of the 17th Ky Vol Lieut A R Byers in the 35 Ky vol Q. M T. R, Mcbath of 27 Ky vol & Capt John, R, Grissom prov mar of 2nd Dist Ky you will please give me an answer to my letter whether on or not I am granted the Commission

Respectfuly yours

Stephen. G. Crawford

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Gov. Thomas E. Bramlette Thomas E. Bramlette

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Grayson CoyOct 20/63

Recm"dg,, for this County Stephen G Crawford Lt Col citizens

P. G. Reese Col issue

Recd I. G. O.Oct. 25. 1863