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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0067 Box 81, Folder 57th Regiment 1861-1864 Recruiting

Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) N00003389 1824-01-30 1876-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and soldier. Kentucky native. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1844. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Assistant engineer of Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Assistant engineer of Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Superintendent of the Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1850 to 1872. Superintendent of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1855 to 1872. Commissioner of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24, 1861, to March 15, 1862.

Relationships Political: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John R. Pirtle (Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 4th Ward, p. 47. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), vii. The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, vol. II, (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904), 248, 409. Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, (Covington, Ky: Collins & Co., 1882), 90-91. "Appendix," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society vol. 9, no. 26 (1911): 33. George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), 193. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008972700 Louis H. Chrisman (sheriff of Jessamine County) N00006079 1813? 1866 Categories: People

Jessamine County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Hester Chrisman. Father of Lucy J. Chrisman, Addison L. Chrisman, Anna T. Chrisman, Margaret P. Chrisman, and George L. Chrisman. Founding member of the Jessamine Female Institute in 1854. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in 1860. Sheriff of Jessamine County from 1858 to 1860. Captain of the Jessamine County Home Guard in 1861. Served as a volunteer aid to General William R. Terrell of the United States Army.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 76. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 18. Bennett H. Young, _A History of Jessamine County, Kentucky: From its Earliest Settlement to 1898 (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1898), 176 and 243. KYR-0002-022-0067. Nicholasville, Kentucky P00000278 Categories: Places

Seat of Jessamine County, Kentucky.

37.8806, -84.573 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 214. “Nicholasville,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 682. "Nicholasville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed December 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Kentucky Home Guard O00000902 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

County level military organization primarily comprised of Union soldiers. Created in 1861 to counter the southern aligned Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Curran Pope (Louisville, KY, attorney, trustee, and colonel 5th KY Inf) Military: B. F. Wilson (Kentucky, resident) Military: Charles S. Marshall (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge)

Nicky Hughes, “Home Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 438. Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky 1861-06 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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Nicholasville Ky June 1861 Saml Gill Esq Frankfort Ky.

Dear-Sir -- We have seventy five enrolled in the Home Guard at this place about forty five have sworn in, the balance ^will be^ as soon as they can be gotten together -- You will please send us a full stand of arms --

L H Christman Capt