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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0086 Box 81, Folder 68th Regiment 1862-1865 Officers' Correspondences

Wayne County, West Virginia James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. James Douglas McBride (Richland County, Ohio, farmer and soldier) N00009700 1842 1932-05-22 Categories: People

Richland County, Ohio, farmer and soldier. Ohio native. Son of William McBride and Susan McBride. Resident in Madison, Ohio, in 1850. Farmer in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1860. Served in the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as sergeant in 1861. Served in the 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from April 10, 1862 to January 8, 1863. Served in the 8th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment as major and lieutenant colonel from August 20, 1864 to May 1865.

Relationships Social: Gaylord McFall (Richland County, Ohio, merchant and soldier) Social: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Social: Samuel Orr (Delaware County, IN, farmer and soldier) Military: William Starke Rosecrans (Cincinnati, Ohio, engineer, businessman, and soldier ) Military: John Charles Frémont (Explorer, politician, and U.S. major general) Military: John L. Zeigler (Wayne County, West Virginia, farmer and soldier) Military: 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Three-Month Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Robert Cumming Schenck (U.S. Army general, attorney, politician, and diplomat) Military: Robert Huston Milroy (Indiana attorney and U.S. Army general) Military: 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) Military: Franz Sigel (U.S. Army general and teacher)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Richland County, Madison, p. 96A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Richland County, Mansfield, Ward 3, p. 66. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Ohio, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M552, Roll 69. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of West Virginia, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M508, Roll 128. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops: Artillery Organizations, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1818, Roll 146. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 136 of Appendix. Find A Grave, "James Douglas McBride (1842-1923)," Memorial #41695865, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41695865 (accessed November 19, 2018). 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 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). 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) O00008509 1861-10-18 1864-10-20 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Ceredo, Virginia. Mustered into service on October 18, 1861. Mustered out of service on October 20, 1864. Commander(s): John L. Zeigler and Abia A. Tomlinson.

Relationships Military: Thomas J. Ewing (captain in 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and colonel in Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: James Douglas McBride (Richland County, Ohio, farmer and soldier)

Adjutant General, State of West Virginia, Annual Report for the Year Ended December 31, 1864 (Wheeling, WV: John F. M'Dermot, Public Printer, 1865), 16, 134-5. United States Adjutant General’s Office, _ Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65_, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1127. Wayne County, West Virginia 1862-12-22 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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Head Quarters Cmd Va Camp Pierpoint Dec 22th 1862 H,, E,, Govenor Robinson Frankfort Kentucky Sir

I would have waighted on you in person but it would require some dayes to procure a leave of absence, owing to the condition of the companies there commanders are anctiously waighting to here as to my sucksess

The bareer of this will present the mater- in its true light if it meets with your approval in twenty dayes I can have six hundrid effective men in the field

I am your Most Obt Svt James D McBride

Lieut Co I 5th Regt Va Vol Infty