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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0056 Box 80, Folder 862-865 HARRISON COUNTY Recruiting & Raising Company 54th Rgt. Ky. Militia

Berry Station, Harrison 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. James Henry Hargis (Coal miner; Private and company clerk (Co. C) in the 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry) N00005094 1835 1912-01-30 Categories: People

Breathitt County, Kentucky, coal miner and solider. Pike County, Kentucky, native. Married to Amanda Hargis. Father of Kenaz F. Hargis and Hebalice Hargis. Private and company clerk in the 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from March 1865 to September 1865.

Relationships Military: 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 118. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0465. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 556. Find A Grave, "James Henry Hargis (1835-January 30, 1912)," Memorial #74649315, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74649315 (accessed May 5, 2017). Berry, Kentucky P00005090 Categories: Places

City in Harrison County, Kentucky. Formerly called Berry's Station.

38.5206, -84.3844 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 22. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Berry, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on July 28, 2020). 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). Harrison County, Kentucky P00002873 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Cynthiana.

38.3904, -84.2941 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 132. “Cynthiana, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 11, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005095 1864-11 1865-09-19 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Covington, Kentucky. Mustered in November 1864 and mustered out on September 19, 1865. Officer(s): Colonel Weden O'Neal.

Relationships Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: United States War Department

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 552-69. 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. Berry Station, Harrison County, Kentucky 1865-07-06 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.
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Berry Station Ky. July 6th 1865 To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

Sir as there are a company of County Guards. to be raised for the County of harrison for the term of one or three Years. and there are no person attempting to recruit and organize the same. by the Solicitation of many Soldiers and citizens of Said County I thereby ask permission to raise and organize Said Company, I can give refrences the best men we have. If there are any person acting in regard to this matter I do not know it I believe Sir that I can make the Company Soon. and immediately goin to Camp.

Sir I have the honor To be Your Obdt. Servt.

James. H, Hargis

Clerk Co. C. 55th Ky. Infy vols.

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Berry's Station, Harrison July 6th, '65

Hargis, James H. To Govenor.

Proposes to recruit a Co. for national Legion in Harrison County.

An. July 12th, 65. Let. Book B. 255

Rec. In. Gen- Off. July 8th, 65