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Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) N00002747 1798 1871-12-31 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and member of military board. Kentucky native. Married to Jane L. Swigert. Mayor of Frankfort in 1849. Owned twenty-two slaves in Frankfort in 1860. Partner with William McKee in the Lexington, Frankfort & Louisville Railroad in 1858. Clerk in Frankfort in 1850. Clerk in Frankfort in 1860. President of the Farmers Bank of Kentucky in Frankfort in 1860. Secretary of the Military Board of Kentucky in 1861.

Relationships Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Economic: Farmers' Bank of Kentucky Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Hiram J. Jones (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Hiram J. Jones (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Charles Hunter May (Boyle Co, KY, merchant & Mercer Co, KY, postmaster) Political: Military Board of Kentucky Military: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 107. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 119. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin, Frankfort District 1, p. 27. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort , p. 12. Carl E. Kramer, "Frankfort" in John E. Kleber, ed. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 353. Report of the Military Board of Kentucky, Made to the General Assembly, September 10, 1861 (Frankfort: Yeoman Office, 1861), 3. Find A Grave, “Philip Swigert (unknown-1871),” Memorial #68833254, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68833254 (accessed May 22, 2017). James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician) N00000811 1823-09-27 1862-10-08 Categories: People

Christian County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha "Patty" Buford Jackson in Scott County, Kentucky, in 1847. Father of David Jackson, James Berryman Jackson, Etta Jackson, and Juliet Jackson. Educated at Centre College in Danville. Graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1844. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, with a law degree in 1845. Admitted to the bar in 1845. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as a private and third lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War. Attorney in Greenup County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Greenup County in 1850. Attorney in Christian County in 1860. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Unionist member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the second Congressional District of Kentucky from March 4, 1861, to December 13, 1861. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 13, 1861, to August 13, 1862. Served in McCook's Corps of the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as brigadier general from July 16, 1862, to October 8, 1862. Killed at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862.

Relationships Military: Ann Eliza Viley Johnson (Wife of George Washington Johnson) Political: Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (Muhlenberg County, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier) Political: George Helm Yeaman (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 158B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 238. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 683-84. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 271B. “Jackson, James Streshly (1823-1862),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed July 28, 2021, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/J000019. “James Streshly Jackson,” Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 388. "James Streshly Jackson (1823-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5894202, accessed July 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894202. Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 166: 1921, p. 99. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 63. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960. William B. Allen, A History of Kentucky, embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches... (Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert, Publishers, 1872). Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (Muhlenberg County, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier) N00009772 1816-11-29 1891-02-05 Categories: People

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, attorney, merchant, politician, and soldier. Greenville, Kentucky, native. Son of James Weir and Anna Cowman Rumsey Weir. Married to Harriet R. Miller Weir in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on September 2, 1838. Father of Edward Rumsey Weir, Jr., Anna C. Weir, Virginia Weir, Miller Weir, Max Weir, Jane Weir, Sallie Ann Weir, Susan M. Weir, and Emily Weir. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1841 to 1842. Attorney in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Attorney and merchant in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned forty enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in the Muhlenberg County Home Guard in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Muhlenberg County from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Military: Muhlenberg County Court Political: James Streshly Jackson (Christian County, Kentucky attorney, soldier, and politician) Political: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Political: George Helm Yeaman (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and statesman)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 272A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 144-145. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky State, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 41. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 98A-B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, South Carrollton, p. 436B. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. X (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 640. "Edward Rumsey Weir, Sr. (1816-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 71435457, accessed December 4, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71435457. "Edward Rumsey Weir," Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film 000557316, p. 4. Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Company, 1913), 56-62. Greenville, Kentucky P00000557 Categories: Places

Seat of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

37.2012, -87.1789 "Greenville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Greenville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 390-91. Muhlenberg County, Kentucky P00000445 Categories: Places

Seat at Greenville. Located on the Green River.

37.2012, -87.1789 "Greenville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Otto A. Rothert, A History of Muhlenberg County (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton and Company, 1913), xvii. Military Board of Kentucky O00006066 1861-05-24 1862-08-28 Categories: Organizations

Agency of the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky responsible for state military affairs from May 1861 to August 1862. The board existed in three different iterations and with different members. Member(s) from May 24, 1861, to September 25, 1861: Beriah Magoffin (President), Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, Peter Dudley, and John B. Peyton. Phillip Swigert was secretary in June 1861. Member(s) from September 25, 1861, to March 15, 1862: John B. Temple (President), Peter Dudley, Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, and E. H. Taylor. Member(s) from March 15, 1862, to August 28, 1862: John B. Temple and George T. Wood.

Relationships Military: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard Military: Thomas Noble Lindsey (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and paymaster general) Military: William Benton Nevitt (Larue County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: Ebenezer C. Guest (Butler County, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) Military: John Harrison Brown (Allen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: William E. Williams (Cumberland County, Kentucky, machinist and miller) Military: John T. Rogers (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John P. Monroe (Monroe County, Kentucky, miller and merchant) Military: John W. Walker (Simpson County, Kentucky, solider (U.S.A.)) Military: James W. Tandy (Carroll County, Kentucky, Farmer) Military: George W. Sanders (Gallatin County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Joseph H. Glover (Barren County, Kentucky, millwright) Military: Benjamin F. Wash (Anderson County, Kentucky, teacher, pvt 54th KY Inf USA) Military: Daniel W. Lovell (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John T. Sanders (Wayne County, Kentucky, banker. ) Military: Cornelius F. Campbell (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Thomas W. Price (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Military: John L. Davidson (Todd County, Kentucky, contractor) Military: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Military: John Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer) Military: John Jefferson Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Robert Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer, surveyor, state Rep) Military: John Tecumseh Milam (Franklin Co, Ky, merchant and pvt 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Squire Lucas (Grant County, KY, merchant, postmaster, andsheriff) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. "An Act for the regulation of the militia and to provide for the arming of the State," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 4-6. "An Act to dispense with the Military Board," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: John B. Major, Public Printer, 1862), 260. KYR-0002-022-0104. Kentucky State Militia O00000916 1792 Categories: Organizations

The Kentucky State Militia consisted of two principal branches, active and enrolled. From its founding, the Commonwealth of Kentucky operated a county-based, universally enrolled militia consisting of all white males of military age. The active militia, consisting of volunteer companies, was organized in 1860 as the Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Alexander W. Nickell (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer and soldier) Military: 65th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Military: [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Military: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Thomas Hall (Washington County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Goldman H. Goodman (Anderson County, KY, physician) Military: James A. Hawkins (Anderson County, KY, paymaster ) Military: William Morrison (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: William C. Wood (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: George W. Mathews (Anderson County, Kentucky, police judge) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Richard G. Stone, “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Muhlenberg County Court O00000656 Categories: Organizations

Located in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): B. J. Shaver. Clerk(s): Jesse H. Reno, Thomas J. Jones, and Thomas Bruce.

Relationships Economic: Joseph J. Wells, Jr. (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Economic: James J. Wood (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, justice of the peace) Economic: John Downing (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, justice of the peace) Economic: J. L. Sperting (Justice of the peace in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) Economic: Hampton P. Welborn (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky farmer, minister, and justice of the peace) Economic: Matthew B. Clark (Muhlenberg co, Ky farmer and justice of the peace) Economic: Absalom Low (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Economic: Jesse Millard (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Economic: C. D. Morehead (Justice of the peace in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) Economic: William G. Jones (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, teacher, farmer, and justice of the peace) Legal: Muhlenberg Circuit Court Legal: John B. Campbell (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Commonwealth’s Attorney Pro tem Muhlenberg Circuit Court) Legal: David Washington Jernigan (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Ira Calloway Skipworth (Muhlenberg County) Legal: William H. James (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John Jenkins (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Joseph Paptow (Resident of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) Economic: B. J. Shaver (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, judge) Legal: Raughley Sullivan (Muhlenberg County) Legal: James W. Sullivan (Muhlenberg County)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky 1861-06-19 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 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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Greenville Ky June 19th 1861. P Swigert Sec'y M B Dear Sir

I notice that blank forms are being printed for use of State & Home Guards. We have formed several companies of Home Guards in this county & want arms. Will you be kind enough to foward me the blanks. I have been elected Captain of Muhlenberg Home Guards No 1 and have about 90 men in my company. We have taken the oath required by law, & will have certificate of Presiding Judge of county. All of which will be forwarded in a few days. Would be pleased to receive some instruction from you, as to mode of application &c

Yours Respectfully

Edwd R Weir Sr.

P S We will give a good Majority for Union candidate for Congress (Capt Jackson) though desperate efforts are being made to take our Union men off. I regard Jackson's election certain by a majority of two or three thousand.

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E. R. Weir Home Guard Muhlenberg Co Recd yours 28 -- June 1861.

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