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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0059 Box 80, Folder 55th-56th Regiment 1862-1865 Recruiting

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. A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) N00005644 Categories: People

Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard units in August 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals)

KYR-0002-022-0059. KYR-0002-022-0060. KYR-0002-164-0008. Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) N00000239 1830-05-16 1901-02-22 Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Owen County, Kentucky, native. Son of Harrison Mundy and Elvira Foster Mundy. Married to Margaret Offutt Mundy. Father of St. Mare Mundy. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Studied law under Professor Hoffman and T. T. Wharton. Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Colonel of the Garibaldi Legion of Philadelphia. Resigned his commission. Served in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to October 1, 1862. Detached as commander of the post of Louisville in the District of Western Kentucky of the Department of the Ohio from October 1862 to December 1863. Resigned on December 31, 1863. Attorney in Louisville.

Relationships Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Political: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Isaac Everett Sr. (Louisville, Kentucky, merchant and farmer) Political: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: J. T. Farris (Louisville, Kentucky, detective and 5th KY Cav lt & QM, 9th KY Cav maj, barracks commander USA) Political: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Political: John Chambers Brent (Bourbon County, Kentucky, bank teller, soldier, and sheriff) Political: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Political: McFerran & Menefee Political: James Calvin McFerran (Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, livery stable owner, commission merchant, and cotton factor.) Political: Samuel Stone Bush (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor) Political: Gibson Mallory (Jefferson County, Kentucky, planter) Political: James S. Wallace (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and theatre manager) Political: Sherley & Woolfolk Political: Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: John Dunlop Osborne (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and owner) Political: William R. Kinney (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician) Political: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) Military: 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Department of the Cumberland

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0361. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 180. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, ed., Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement to the Year 1896 vol.1 (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 463. John W. Shelby (Louisville, Kentucky signature) N00005653 Categories: People

Co-signatory on a letter to Thomas E. Bramlette from Louisville, Kentucky, on August 6, 1864.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864)

KYR-0002-022-0058. John B. English (Owen County, Kentucky, physician and politician) N00004759 1807-03-20 1891-05-14 Categories: People

Owen County, Kentucky, physician and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth C. H. English. Father of Duval English and Jane English. Speculator in Owen County in 1850. Physician in Owen County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, from Owen County, from 1863 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Lewis E. Krutz (Kentucky saw mill operator and tavern keeper) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 275; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 63; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District 2, p. 9; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, New Liberty, p. 8; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 670; Find A Grave, "Dr. John Breckenridge English (1807-1891)," Memorial #25498148, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25498148 (accessed April 21, 2017). James H. McDaniel (representative from Gallatin County, Kentucky) N00005647 1823? Categories: People

Gallatin County, Kentucky, politician and trader. Kentucky native. Married to Arena McDaniel. Father of John McDaniel, Flora McDaniel, and James McDaniel. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Gallatin County from 1857 to 1859. Trader in Gallatin County in 1860.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 17. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, p. 4. Journal of the House of Representatives, (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1857). Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), 287. George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) N00002278 1827-11-17 1898-01-01 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edward C. Drane and Judith Dupuy Drane. Married to Mary Shipman Drane in 1861. Father of Paul S. Drane. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1849. Partner with William S. Pryor in the law firm Pryor & Drane in Henry County in 1849. Resident of Henry County in 1850. Attorney in Henry County in 1860. Circuit judge of the Eighth Kentucky Judicial District from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Economic: Henry Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) Social: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Political: Patrick McDermot (Arrested for the attempted murder of Patrick Ford in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1861.) Social: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Legal: John Anderson (Charged with grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Albert Bridgeford (Frankfort, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Gallatin Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 395B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 247. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 148B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306 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), 301-306. 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. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henry County, KY, August, 1863, p. 221. "Judge Drane Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 2, 1898, p. 5. "Henry County law and government," Henry County Local (New Castle, KY), December 9, 1998, p. 6. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 30-1. 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. 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 1864-08-06 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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 Aug. 6. 1864 Gov. T. E. Bramlette Dr Sir

A. B. Vallandingham who has done some service to the government desires the privilege of raising a battallion of the troops to be raised to fight Guerilla's. He is well acquainted with the geography of our state and could render good service in the premises. We respectfully recommend him to you.

Respectfully

M Mundy

Jno. W. Shelby

J, B, English

Jas,, H,, McDaniel

Geo. C. Drane

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Hd. Qrs. Ky. St. Grd. Lousiville. Aug 6. 1864

Monday Mark & others.

To the Gov and by him referred. Introducing A. B. Vallandingham, who desires to raise a Bat. of the troops to be raised to fight guerillas. States that, Mr A. is well acquainted with the Geography of the State-. has seen and will do good service. Encloses a letter from Mr A. asking authority to raise troops for the purposes above mentioned.

Ans. Aug.th 12th 1864 on letter book B. Page 25

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Recd I. G. O. Aug 11.th 1864