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Louisville, Jefferson 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. Edwin Vincent (1st lieutenant, 5th Kentucky Cavalry (Co. D)) N00005303 1830-04-14 1910-02-11 Categories: People

Kentucky farmer, and soldier. Married to Julia Ann B. Carver Vincent. Father of Margaret E. Vincent and Landers M. Vincent. Farmer in Cumberland County in 1860. First lieutenant in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from March 31, 1862 to May 15, 1864.

Relationships Military: 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District 1, p. 31. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Carver Precinct, p. 14. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0058. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 118-119. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 859-860. Find A Grave, "Edwin Vincent (April 14, 1830-February 11, 1910)," Memorial #124814396, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124814396 (accessed May 8, 2017). David Rice Haggard (Colonel 5th Ky Cavalry; Cumberland Co, KY, physician and farmer) N00005324 1817? 1887-04-29 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, businessman, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Jane M. Haggard. Father of Ben Rice Haggard, Thomas P. Haggard, Henry B. Haggard, Mary B. Haggard, Clarence R. Haggard, and Irene S. Haggard. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Cumberland County, Kentucky, from 1844 to 1847. Physician in Cumberland County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Assistant marshal of the slave census of the Cumberland Division in 1850. Farmer and physician in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to February 1863. President of the Indian Creek and Jack's Knob, Iron, Coal, Salt, Lead, Lumber, Oil, and Manufacturing Company in 1865.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Edwin Vincent (1st lieutenant, 5th Kentucky Cavalry (Co. D)) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: James W. Weatherford (Colonel in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ) Economic: [Unknown] Gilbert (Louisville, Kentucky) Military: United States Army Military: Department of the Cumberland

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division, p. 345A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 581. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District No. 2, p. 370A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, pp. 4A-B. "An Act to incorporate the Indian Creek and Jack's Knob Iron, Coal, Salt, Lead, Lumber, and Oil Manufacturing Company," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 78-80. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 108-9. "Col David Rice Haggard (1817-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 95439725, accessed December 4, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95439725. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue–Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014), 161-162. James W. Weatherford (Colonel in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ) N00005327 1837-01-18 1889-08-17 Categories: People

Bradfordsville, Kentucky, conductor and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Weatherford. Father of John Weatherford and George Weatherford. Conductor in Brandfordsville in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 23, 1863, to January 10, 1865.

Relationships Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John Feland (Christian Co, Ky, attorney and quarter master (U.S.A.)) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Bradfordsville, p. 696. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866) 352-53. Find A Grave, "James Wallace Weatherford, Sr (January 18, 1837-August 17, 1889)," Memorial #44371058, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44371058 (accessed October 25, 2018). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Cumberland County, Kentucky P001829 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Burkesville. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.7903, -85.3705 “Burkesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 25, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. “Cumberland County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 245. Burkesville, Kentucky P00000547 Categories: Places

Seat of Cumberland County. Located on the Cumberland River.

36.7903, -85.3705 “Burkesville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 143. “Burkesville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 25, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005302 1862-03-31 1865-05-03 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Sandidge in Gallatin County, Tennessee. Mustered into service on March 31, 1862. Mustered out of service on May 3, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel David R. Haggard, Colonel William P. Sanders, and Colonel Oliver L. Baldwin.

Relationships Military: George H. Travis (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Oliver Leonard Baldwin (Louisville, Kentucky, colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Fleming W. Faris (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: David Rice Haggard (Colonel 5th Ky Cavalry; Cumberland Co, KY, physician and farmer) Military: John L. Carter (Russell County, Kentucky, resident and captain of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: Elijah Blankenship (Macon County, Tennessee, farmer and soldier.) Military: Milton E. Robinson (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 108-37. 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-06-23 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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Louisville June 23 1864 Gov. T E Bramlette Dr. Sir

Edwin Vincent who is the bearer of this letter was one my Lieutenants in the old 5th Ky -- And conducted himself with credit in the camp on march and in all the trying incidents of my campaign- showing entire willingness to lead his men when duty called him, regardless of danger & fatigue- He will give you the particulars of the condition of our country at this juncture. He wants to raise one hundred men which when done can clean out that country -- and keep it so- If it is your purpose to raise any force at all -- at this time He can raise the men and will lead them to the point- and capture those scoundrals -- our town was striped in less than one week after Witherford left

Respectfully

D R Haggard

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Ky State Guard. Louisville Ky. June 23rd 1864

Cumberlan co. Vincent Lt Haggard. D, R.

To the Gov. and by him referred. introduces Edward Vincent, formerly a Lieut in his Reg. the Lieut can give information touching the condition of things in Cumberland County. He desires to raise 100 men, which when done can "clean out" that Country and keep it so. The Lieut can raise the men and with them can Capture those scoundrels upon the border.

Our town (Burksville) was stripped in less than a week after Wetherford left

Lieut Vincent called in person & obtained authority to raise a State Guard Co

Rec. I. G. O. June 24 -- 1864