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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0049 Box 80, Folder 862-64 HENRY COUNTY History 51st Rgt. Ky. Militia

Eminence, Henry 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. Austin Dupuy (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004526 1808? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer. Married to Lucy J. Dupuy. Father of Mary E. Dupuy, Joseph Dupuy, Bartholemew Dupuy, Fanny J. Dupuy, Rowland T. Dupuy, Lucy J. Dupuy, Austin Dupuy, Jr., and Perry Dupuy. Involved with the Kentucky State Agricultural Society in 1856. Farmer in Henry County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Commissioner to open books for the Eminence and Bethlehem Turnpike Road Company in 1860.

Relationships Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney)

"Report of the Kentucky State Agircultural Society to the Legislature of Kentucky, for the Years 1856 and 1857," Legislative Document, No. 22 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1857), 29. "An Act to incorporate the Eminence and Bethlehem Turnpike Road Company," Acts of the Generaul Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: Yeoman Office, J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 275-277. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 83. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 13. Eminence, Kentucky P00000309 Categories: Places

Town in Henry County, Kentucky.

38.3701, -85.1805 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 93. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Eminence, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on July 28, 2020). New Castle, Kentucky P00000305 Categories: Places

Seat of Henry County, Kentucky.

38.4334, -85.1697 "New Castle, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987), 212. Henry County, Kentucky P00000758 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at New Castle. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.4334, -85.1697 "New Castle, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 138. Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky 1864-11-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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.
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P. 205 Eminence Ky Nv 29th 1864. Gov. Bramlette Dear Sir

We are over run with Guerrillas can you send some soldeirs Sixty would do, if they are mounted, they are scattered over the country, a young man just from New Castle reports thirty there at this time,

Respectfully A. Dupuy

P S

I think from what I am told there are two or three wonded wounded rebels in the county, one wounded by the state troops the one day last week.

A D

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Eminence Ky Nov 29th 1864

Dupuy A.
To The Gov-

Wants some soldiers sent here. sixty would be sufficient if mounted. Thinks there are two or three wounded rebels in the county.

L. B. No 8. 1864 P. 205.

Recd A. G. O. Nov 30th 1864.