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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0097 Box 81, Folder 68th Regiment 1864-1877 Militia Claims and Expenses

Washington, District of Columbia 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 McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) N00002647 1814-12-19 1869-12-24 Categories: People

Ohio attorney, politician, and Secretary of War. Son of David Stanton and Lucy Latham Norman Stanton. Married to Mary A. Lamson Stanton in Franklin County, Ohio, on December 31, 1836. Father of Lucy Lamson Stanton and Edwin Lamson Stanton. Married to Ellen Maria Hutchison Stanton on June 25, 1850. Father of Eleanor A. Stanton, Lewis Hutchinson Stanton, and Bessie B. Stanton. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1856. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States of America from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States of America from January 1862 to May 1868.

Relationships Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John A. Brady (Washington County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon. 1st Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: United States War Department Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: United States Army Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Political: United States War Department Military: Catharinus P. Buckingham (Ohio, manufacturer and Union general) Military: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Joseph K. Pitts (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer; sergeant 16th Ky Inf (U.S.A.)) Military: 8th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Arthur Erenburgh (Allegheny County, PA, engineer, lieut. 1st Ky Ind. Battery & 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Political: United States Army Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Political: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Government of the United States of America Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Jacob Cozatt (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and miller. ) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Presley F. Hansbrough (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Capt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Paymaster Department Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jefferson County, Steubenville City, p. 57B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 4, p. 375. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, District of Columbia, Washington, Ward 2, p. 270A. Ohio Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Franklin County, Film 000285142, p. 163. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 74014, State 904. Walter Stahr, Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017). William L. Barney, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 301-2. George W. Gallup (Louisa, KY, attorney, reg QM 14th KY Inf (USA), lt col & col) N00008673 1828-10-12 1880-12-31 Categories: People

Louisa, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. New York native. Studied law with L.T. Moore in Louisa. Married to Rebecca A. Moore Gallup. Father of Henry M. Gallup and Frederick G. Gallup. Farmer in Venice, New York, in 1850. Entered law partnership with L.T. Moore in Louisa. Attorney in Louisa in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisa in 1860. Served in 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry as regimental quarter-master from December 10, 1861, until May 11, 1862, when he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, then promoted to colonel on January 13, 1863. Mustered out on January 31, 1865. Brevetted brigadier general on March 13, 1865.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Cayuga County, Venice. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 185. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 2. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0273. William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Central Methodist, 1887), 41. _Find A Grave, “Col George W. Gallup (1828-1880)," Memorial #16874810, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16874810/gal# (accessed May 20, 2018). Timothy Patrick Andrews (Union Army, paymaster general) N00010027 1794 1868-03-11 Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, soldier. Native of Ireland. Married to Emily R. Andrews. Father of Richard Snowden Andrews, Ann Louisa Andrews, Emily R. Andrews, Caroline E. Andrews, and Albert L. Andrews. Served in the United States Army from 1812 to 1864. Brevetted brigadier general in 1847. Served in the U.S. Army as deputy paymaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel from December 17, 1851, to September 6, 1862, and as paymaster general, with the rank of colonel, until November 20, 1864.

Relationships Military: Ambrose E. Burnside (Union general, Rhode Island rifleworks owner) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Paymaster Department

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore city, Ward 13, p. 348B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore city, Ward 11, p. 665. Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. I (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889), p. 76. Register of the Army of the United States, for September, 1861. U.S. Army Military Records, 1798-1969_ (accessed through Fold3.com on August 13, 2019), p. 11 Register of the Army of the United States, for 1863. U.S. Army Military Records, 1798-1969_ (accessed through Fold3.com on August 13, 2019), p. 12. Find A Grave, "Timothy Patrick Andrews (1798-1868)," Memorial #17655491, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17655491 (accessed August 13, 2019). Louis Henry Pelouze (U.S. Army, soldier) N00009745 1831-05-30 1878-06-01 Categories: People

U.S. Army soldier. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Ellen L. Doolittle Pelouze. Father of Mina Pelouze, Catherine Pelouze, and Louis Henri Pelouze. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1853. Served in the U.S. Army as second lieutenant, captain, major, and as assistant adjutant-general of volunteers with a rank of lieutenant colonel from 1853 to 1868. Brevetted lieutenant colonel on September 24, 1864, colonel and brigadier general on March 13, 1865. In charge of records of colored troops in the war department until June 14, 1868.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit Ward 7, p. 15B. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol IV (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 705. Find A Grave, "Louis Henry Pelouze (1831-1878)," Memorial #5988426, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5988426 (accessed November 29, 2018). Washington, District of Columbia P00001134 Categories: Places

Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.

38.9072, -77.0369 Jeane Mason Fogle, "Washington, D.C." in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Washington-DC) (accessed May 22, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, D.C.," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 8, 2019). United States War Department O00005118 1789 Categories: Organizations

Created in 1789 upon the inauguration of President George Washington. Responsible for oversight of all military departments. Led by the Secretary of War. Civil War-era secretaries of war: John B. Floyd (1857-1860), Joseph Holt (January-March 1861), Simon Cameron (March 1861-January 1862), and Edwin M. Stanton (January 1862-May 1868).

Relationships Military: William Henry Seward (New York governor, attorney and politician) Military: Boston Dillion (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Francis B. Alexander (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William A. Coffey (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: William N. Owens (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Eli Houston Murray (Breckenridge County, KY, soldier) Political: William Harrison Randall, Sr. (Laurel County, Kentucky, attorney, clerk, and politician.) Political: Brutus Junius Clay (Representative) Political: Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) Political: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Kenneth W. Munden and Henry Putney Beers, The Union: A Guide to the Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962, reprinted 1986), 242-44. L. D. Ingersoll, A History of the War Department of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Francis B. Mohun, 1880). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 1, The Eastern Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia O00009683 1864-05-21 1864-06-22 Categories: Organizations

Comprised of militia from Lawrence County, Kentucky. Commanders: Col. Thomas McKinster, Lt. Col. Martin H. Johns, and Major William M. Jones.

Relationships Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: George W. Gallup (Louisa, KY, attorney, reg QM 14th KY Inf (USA), lt col & col) Military: Louis Henry Pelouze (U.S. Army, soldier) Military: Government of the United States of America Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: United States War Department Military: Ira B. Hutchison (Lawrence Co., KY, captain 68th Enrolled Militia ) Military: Harrison Griffith (Lawrence County, Kentucky, student)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 889. 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. Washington, District of Columbia 1864-05-19 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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 "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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War Department, Washington City, May 19th, 1864 His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette. Governor of Kentucky. Louisville. Kentucky. Sir:

I am instructed by the Secretary of War to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's communication of the 28th ultimo, asking if any arrangements can be made for the payment, by the United States, of the 68th Regiment Enrolled Militia of Kentucky, called out in April last by Colonel Gallup, Commanding the District of East Kentucky, for the purpose of protecting his depots and lines of communication, when threatened by the rebels; and, in reply, to state, that the Paymaster General has been ordered to pay these troops for the time they were actually in service.

Very Respectfully, (over)

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Your Obedient Servant. Louis H Pelouze Ass't. Adj't. Gen'l.

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War Department Washington City May 19th 1864

Louis H. Pelouze A. A. G. is instructed by Secty War to acknowledge receipt of the Gov's communciation of the 28th ultimo and to state that the PayMaster Genl has been instructed to pay the 68th Regt Ky E. M. for the time they were actually in service.

Recd I. G. O. May 24th 1864 Letter from War Dept relative to pay of 68' Enrolled Militia.