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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0039 Box 80, Folder 861 HARDIN COUNTY Recruiting & Raising Company 49th Rgt. Ky. Militia

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. M. Gore (Hardin County ) N00003000 Categories: People

Attempted to recruit an independent company in 1864.

KYR-0002-022-0039. [unknown] Burke (provost marshal at Elizabethtown, Kentucky) N00003009 Categories: People

Provost marshal in Elizabethtown, Kentucky in 1864.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard

KYR-0002-022-0039. Isaac Radley (Hardin County Sheriff) N00002939 1806 1871 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Permelia Jane Welsh Radley. Father of Louisiana Radley Starling, Sallie Radley, John Radley, and Mary H. Radley. Constable in Hardin County in 1847. Sheriff of Hardin County from 1858 to 1863.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 2, p. 18. Taliaferro P. Shafner, ed., The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847 (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 94. Find A Grave, "Isaac Radley (1806-1871)," Memorial #86905116, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86905116 (accessed March 28, 2017). "Hardin County Sheriffs," (http://www.hcky.org/hcso/History/Past_Sheriffs.htm) (accessed on March 28, 2017). John Stuart (Hardin County, KY, farmer) N00002940 1826-12-26 1894-04-10 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, farmer and public servant. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Catherine Stuart. Father of John Alexander Stuart, Barbara Elizabeth Stuart Connelly, and Elmira C. Stuart. Farmer in Hardin County in 1860. Assessor of revenue for Hardin County in 1864.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 145. KYR-0002-022-0039. Find A Grave, "John Stuart (1826-1894)," Memorial #89350251, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89350251 (accessed December 30, 2019). Samuel Haycraft (Hardin County KY Circuit Clerk, State Senator, attorney, and farmer) N00002907 1795-08-14 1878-12-22 Categories: People

Kentucky farmer, attorney, politician, and court clerk. Married to Sarah Brown Helm Haycraft. Father of Edward Helm Haycraft, Sarah Maria Haycraft, John Samuel Haycraft, Louisa Ann Haycraft, Margaret John Haycraft, and Eliza A. Haycraft. Worked in the county and circuit clerk's office under Major Ben Helm from 1809 to 1816. Clerk of the Hardin County Court and Hardin Circuit Court from 1816 to 1851. Member of the Baptist Church and became a deacon in 1835. Trustee of Georgetown College. Attorney in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, from 1851 to 1855. Clerk of the Hardin County Court and Hardin Circuit Court from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in 1857. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1858 to 1862. Owned seven enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1860. Clerk of the Hardin County Court and Hardin Circuit Court from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Economic: Hardin Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown, Division 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown, District 1, p. 9. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 322-23. Find A Grave, "Samuel Haycraft (1795-1878)," Memorial #11879848, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11879848 (accessed March 27, 2017). Denton Geoghegan (Hardin County physician and farmer) N00002941 1824-04-23 1869-11-16 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Member of the Episcopal Church. Brick-mason in Mississippi from 1842 to 1844. Studied medicine in Elizabethtown under one of his brothers, Thomas D. Geoghegan. Graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1846. Physician in West Point, Kentucky from 1846 to 1854. Physician in Elizabethtown from 1854 to 1869. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Household owned an additional seven enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard

Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and its Surroundings (Elizabethtown, Ky.: The Woman's Club of Elizabethtown, Ky., 1921 ), 129. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 90. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown District 1, p. 9. James L. Hills (Hardin County Sheriff) N00002946 1827-01-06 1883-03-07 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, cabinetmaker and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Julia A. Hills. Father of Thomas R. Hills. Cabinetmaker in Hardin County in 1860. Sheriff of Hardin County from 1864 to 1867.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard

"Hardin County Sheriff's," (http://www.hcky.org/hcso/History/PastSheriffs.htm) (accessed March 28, 2017). _Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 93. Find A Grave, "James L. Hills (January 6, 1827-March 7, 1883)," Memorial #90448617, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90448617 (accessed March 28, 2017). John Larue Helm (Kentucky governor) N00000991 1802-07-04 1867-09-08 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney and politician. Elizabethtown native. Married to Lucinda Hardin Helm. Father of Benjamin Hardin Helm, George H. Helm, Elizabeth B. Helm, Rebecca J. Helm, Lucinda B. Helm, Sarah Helm, Emily Helm, Mary Helm, John L. Helm, James P. Helm, and Thomas Helm. Studied under Benjamin Tobin and admitted to the bar in 1823. Meade County Attorney from 1824 to 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1825, 1827, 1830, 1833 to 1837, 1839, 1842, 1843, and in which he also served as speaker in the 1835, 1836, 1839, 1842, and 1843 sessions. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1844 to 1848. Lieutenant governor of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Governor of Kentucky from 1850 to 1851. President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1854 to 1860. Owned fifty-two enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1860.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 194. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1, p. 56. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, 3rd District, p. 90. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, 3rd District, p. 12. Find A Grave, "John Larue Helm (1802-1867)," Memorial #6865234, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6865234 (accessed August, 3, 2017). 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. 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). 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. 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. 1864-08-30 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 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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August 30th 1864 Govr Bramlett

I write you at the request of a number of our most respectable Citizens without distinction of party Mr M Gore proposes to raise an independent Company for the avowed object of clearing our Country of Guerrillas

There are those in this Community who know the men gathering around him who believe they have a practical motive widely diferent from the avowed object, and some of their acts are confirmatory of that Spuspicion. If their conduct was represented to you as it has been to me, you would not hesitate to refuse organization to such a body of men, I am not a Sufforer and therefore make no personal Complaint, but many do complain & bitterly Complain of their course of Conduct

I refer you to Captn Burke provo marshall of this place Isaac Radley the Collector of Revinue, John Stuart assessor of revenue, Saml Haycraft Clerk of the circuit Court Dr Denton Geoghegan local Surgeon of Federal army at E Town. James Hill present Sheriff, all good Union men and many others that might be named. I refer you to these men. that you may derive such information as will satisfy you as to the propriety of the organization of the Company. It is desired that any action be suspended till you are advised I would have no hesitation in giving you my opinion but prefer your receiving it from the Source I mention.

We are aware of the danger that all men who are men of property subject themselves to by th thwarting such men in their views, I ask therefor that this communication be a secert between you and I. And if you shall write to the men I name that the Secrecy.. Consistent with the publick safety be observed.

I see Hardin County is placed on the list to fill her quota of the Comeing draft at Something over one thousand and credited by some 400 leaving near Six hundred to be drafted I think there is a great error in that number and when credited it is stated there I am Satisfied near 300 negroes have been enlisted from Hardin County. I am told a credit of some 41 is all that has been allowed. How shall this matter be remidied My judgment is; a draft in Ky at this time would furnish the South more white men than it will furnish the north. And

Yours truly

John L Helm

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Head. Qrs. Ky. State Guard. Hardin Co. Aug 30th 1864

Helm. John. L.

Requests that the authority given M. Gore to raise a Company, be revoked. From the character of the man, and of the men he is gathering around him, he believes his objects are widely different from those expressed.

Refers to divers Federal and State officers in E. Town as to the character of this man. Desires that this letter, and also any that may be written to or recd from the parties refered to be regarded as private & Confidintial --

Answered Septr 1. 1864 on letter book B. P. 58

R. I. G. O. Septr 1st 1864