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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0060 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. Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals) N00000881 1793-11-29 1881-08-22 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, politician, and public servant. Clark County, Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Combs and Sarah Richardson Combs. Married to Margaret Trotter Combs in 1819. Married to Mary Elizabeth Brownell Combs in 1849. Father of Lizzie B. Combs, Leslie Combs, and F. H. Combs. Educated by the Reverend John Lysle. Deputy clerk of the Courts of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Cadet in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General James Winchester and in various capacities under General William Henry Harrison, General Green Clay. Completed education in 1816 and read law with Samuel Q. Richardson in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1818. Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Raised a regiment in response to the Texas Revolution in 1836. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1827 to 1829, in 1833, from 1845 to 1847, and from 1857 to 1859. Delegate to the Whig Party Convention, supporting the nomination of Henry Clay, in 1840. Canvassed for William Henry Harrison in the Presidential Election of 1840. Unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives of the United States against John C. Breckinridge in 1851. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Legal: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.) Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Nathaniel N. Cowgill (Fulton County, KY, minister) Legal: Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) Legal: A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Marion Circuit Court Social: Thomas John Chesnutt (Franklin County soldier and clerk) Social: Richard "Dick" Rowan Bolling (Kentucky attorney and court clerk) Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Social: Ira Hart Stout (St. Louis, Missouri, resident and soldier.) Military: United States Army

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 102. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 79-80. Lewis Collins, Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 170. Find A Grave, "Gen Leslie Combs (November 29, 1793-August 22, 1881)," Memorial #8875416, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8875416 (accessed February 9, 2017). 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. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-08-09 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville Ky Augst 9th 1864 To Governor Thos Bramlett Frankfort Ky

Dear Sir at the solicitation of many friends I have concluded to raise a Battalion for the Purpose of fighting the roving Bands of Theives and cutthroats who are r many of our Citizens &c If this meets your approbation I wish you would send me permisin as soon as you can for there is many anxious to go into such service now nothing more only I am

yours Respefl A B Vallandingham

N, B, my Respects to Gen Combs