<title type="main">James W. Wilkins, Otway Waddell, and J. M. Compton to Thomas E. Bramlette

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November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0035 Box 80, Folder 863 HOPKINS COUNTY Recomendations for Nominations (Commissions) 47th Rgt. Ky. Militia

Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky 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. Thomas Walter Campbell (Hopkins County clerk and soldier with the 25th & 17th Kentucky Infantry, 17th Kentucky Cavalry) N00002619 1831? Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa Campbell. Father of Fannie Campbell and Emma Campbell. Clerk in Hopkins County in 1860. Captain in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.), which was consolidated into the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from January 1862 to March 1862. Colonel for Hopkins County in 1863. Lieutenant colonel in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from April 1865 to September 1865.

Relationships Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Social: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Social: James M. Compton (Hopkins County justice of the peace and circuit court clerk) Social: Otway Waddill (Hopkins County attorney)

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0373. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 404-405, 423, and 958-959. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 52. Richard L. Peyton (Hopkins County farm laborer and soldier) N00002622 1834? Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John L. Peyton and Pauline Peyton. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Second lieutenant in the 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.), which consolidated into the 17th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.), from January 1862 to April 1862. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel for Hopkins County in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 18. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0305. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 958-959. James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) N00002620 1801-11-15 1885-02-28 Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant. South Carolina native. Married to Eliza W. Wilkins. Father of Samuel M. Wilkins, Edward Wilkins, and Eliza W. Wilkins. Merchant in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Hopkins County commissioner of the common schools in 1853, 1859, and 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 246. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 26. "Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1859," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 182. "Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year 1854," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1855), 55. "Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the Year Ending December 31, 1861," (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 131. Find A Grave, "James W. Wilkins (November 15, 1801-February 28, 1885)," Memorial #59860797, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59860797 (accessed on March 20, 2017). Otway Waddill (Hopkins County attorney) N00002624 1822 1901-12-19 Categories: People

Madisonville, Kentucky, attorney. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sarah E. Pary Waddill in May 1851. Married to Maria E. Pratt Waddill in April 1865. Father of Otway W. Waddill and Joseph C. Waddill. Attended Cumberland College. Admitted to the bar in 1846. Member of the Whig Party and Republican Party. Elder of the Hopkins County Christian Church in Hopkins County, Kentucky, from 1851. Attorney in Hopkins County from 1851 to 1855. Attorney in Hopkins County from 1863 to 1867. Partner in the law firm of Earle & Waddill, with John B. Earle, in Madisonville in 1852. Attorney in Madisonville in 1853. Attorney in Madisonville in 1856. Partner in the law firm of Arnold & Waddill, with John E. Arnold, in Madisonville in 1859. Attorney in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Madisonville in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 839. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 173A. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 426. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 700-701. John Livingston, Law Register: Comprising the Lawyers in the United States: the State Record (New York: Office of the U.S. Law Magazine, 1852), 84. John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register for 1853 (New York: Office of the U.S. Law Magazine, 1853), 105. John Livingston, The Law Register: Comprising the Lawyers in the United States (New York: Davies and Roberts, 1856), 134. John Livingston, Livingston's United States Law Register, and Official Directory (New York: John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper, 1859), 300. "Otway Waddill (1822-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial #111103469, accessed March 20, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111103469. James M. Compton (Hopkins County justice of the peace and circuit court clerk) N00002621 1811-01-12 1877-01-14 Categories: People

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Mary C. Compton. Father of Willis M. Compton and Martha C. Compton. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Justice of the peace in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Clerk of the Hopkins Circuit Court in Hopkins County from 1863 to 1867.

Relationships Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Legal: Hopkins Circuit Court Social: John W. Poe (Hopkins Co., KY, farmer) Social: Dixon Browning (Hopkins Co., KY, farmer) Social: George W. Ligon (Hopkins Co., KY, farmer) Political: Hopkins County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 134A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 728. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 836. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. "James M. Compton (1811-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial #59861063, accessed March 20, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59861063. 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. Madisonville, Kentucky P00002614 Categories: Places

Seat of Hopkins County, Kentucky.

37.3281, -87.4989 "Madisonville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 5, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 185. Hopkins County, Kentucky P00002615 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Madisonville.

37.3281, -87.4989 Ann Brown, "Hopkins County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 439-40. "Madisonville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 5, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 144. Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky 1863-10-15 Correspondence 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 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

Madisonville Hopkins County Ky 15th Octr 1863 His Excellency Thos E. Bramlett Governer of Ky Dear Sir

In your proclamation of the 9th Int you request some friend of his country to recommend some suitable persons for colonel and Lieutenant Col for there county

We the undersigned would respectfully recommend Thomas W. Campbell for Colonel of this Hopkins County Ky and Richard L. Peyton for Lieutenant Colonel we are respectfully

yours

James W. Wilkins

Otway Waddell

J M Compton

Hopkins Co Oct 15/63

Recm"dg for this county Thos W Campbell as Colonel Richard L Peyton Lt Col Citizens

Issue, Boyle Issued 47, 284