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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 37th - 76th Regiments Enrolled Militia Primary Source Documents (1861-1866) KYR-0002-022-0118 Box 81, Folder 862-64 MONTGOMERY COUNTY Recruiting & Raising Company 73d Rgt. Ky. Militia

Mount Sterling, Montgomery 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. Leonard A. Spalding (Marion Co., KY, politician and retired merchant) N00009945 1806 1888 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Lancaster Spalding in Washington County in November 1830. Father of John L. Spalding. Married to Elizabeth M. Shadburne Spalding. Father of Martin J. Spalding, Mary P. Spalding, William R. Spalding, and Elizabeth Spalding. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Marion County in 1837. Engaged in commerce in Marion County in 1840. Farmer and merchant in Marion County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Employed Frederick Merimee as a merchant in 1850. Merchant in Marion County in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 342A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 342A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 619 (p. 9 of microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, District 1, p. 546. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 487B (p. 1 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p.74. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 12 of microfilm. Find A Grave, "Leonard Augustine Spalding (1806-1888)," Memorial #103686081, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103686081 (accessed December 22, 2018). Find A Grave, "Prudence Merimee Shadburne (1797-1872)," Memorial #54050574 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54050574 (accessed October 17, 2019). Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 539. Benedict Spalding (Marion County, Kentucky, legislator and farmer) N00009946 1783-06-10 1870-02-25 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, farmer and legislator. St. Mary’s County, Maryland, native. Married to Eliza Elder Spalding in Washington County, Kentucky, on January 16, 1815. Married to Elizabeth McElroy Spalding in Floyd County, Indiana, on March 5, 1833. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Washington County in 1804, 1806, 1811 to 1812, 1812 to 1813, and 1835 to 1836. Farmer in Marion County in 1850. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Employed Benedict Abell as a farmhand in Marion County in 1860. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 2, 1861, to June 5, 1865.

Relationships Social: Felix C. Jenkins (Marion Co. postmaster and hotel keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 326A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, New Market, p. 573. “Benedict Joseph Spalding III,” Find A Grave, Memorial #65445799, accessed September 9, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65445799 G. Glenn Clift, Biographical Directory of the Kentucky General Assembly, n.p., 1970. Indiana Marriages (1811-2019), Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, IN, Roll #000549329, Floyd County Marriages, p. 102. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 18, 102, 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 97. Leonard Edelen (Marion County, Kentucky, hatter and merchant) N00009947 1800-06 1865-04-16 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, hatter and merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Bruce Edelen. Father of Mary C. Edelen, James H. Edelen, Lucinda Edelen, Leonard Edelen, Robert Hagin Edelen, and George T. Edelen. Engaged in manufacturing in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1840. Hatter in Marion County, Kentucky, in 1850. Employed Thomas H. Brown as a hatter in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Merchant in Marion County in 1860. Employed his sons, Leonard Edelen and Robert Hagin Edelen, as clerks in 1860.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 306. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 340A Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 611. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 736 Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 499A. Find A Grave, "Leonard Edelen (1800-1865)," Memorial #77465012, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77465012 (accessed October 18, 2019). Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7017551, Marion County Deaths, File #15053. William Bricken (Marion County, KY, merchant) N00009949 1829-08-09 1899-11-28 Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Ellen Cunningham Bricken. Father of George A. Bricken and Samuel Bricken. Married to Elizabeth Gerey Bricken in Washington County on August 31, 1847. Married to Mary E. Montgomery Bricken in Washington County on November 18, 1862. Father of Florence A. Bricken and Thomas W. Bricken.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 734 Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky,Marion County, Lebanon, p. 44B Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, South Lebanon, p. 42A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000241382, p. 551. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film #000551244, p. 20. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7017543, Jefferson County Deaths, Certificate #24097. Find A Grave, "William Bricken (1829-1899)," Memorial #113662702, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113662702/william-bricken (accessed October 17, 2019). Paul J. Rattigan (Marion Co., KY, carpenter) N00009948 1830? Categories: People

Marion County, Kentucky, master carpenter. Kentucky native. Master carpenter in Marion County in 1860.

Relationships Social: William Bricken (Marion County, KY, merchant) Social: Leonard Edelen (Marion County, Kentucky, hatter and merchant) Social: Benedict Spalding (Marion County, Kentucky, legislator and farmer) Social: Leonard A. Spalding (Marion Co., KY, politician and retired merchant) Military: Kentucky State Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District no. 1, p. 544. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, Miller's Creek, p. 567B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, , X County, KY, DATE, p. 120, (Accessed via ancestry.com on October 17, 2019). Mount Sterling, Kentucky P00001936 Categories: Places

Seat of Montgomery County, Kentucky.

38.0565, -83.9433 "Mount Sterling, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 205. 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). 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. Lebanon, Kentucky P00002553 Categories: Places

Seat of Marion County, Kentucky.

37.5698, -85.2527 "Lebanon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 168. Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

The volunteer and active militia from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Existed from 1860 to 1865. Commander(s): Simon Bolivar Buckner, John W. Finnell, Daniel W. Lindsey.

Relationships Military: 38th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Greenfield M. Witten (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman) Military: Alexander G. Hamilton (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Robert S. Friend (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Edwin Trimble (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Alexander L. Martin (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Military: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Military: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Military: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Francis M. Vaughn (Kentucky soldier) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: James A. Stamper (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: [unknown] Drerren (Soldier, 71st Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Military: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Military: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Military: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Military: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“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), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. 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. Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky 1864-09-14 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 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Mt Sterling Ky. 14" Sep' 1864 To His Excellency

Thos, E. Bramlette, Frankfort. Ky Sir

I beg to inform your Excellency that I believe I can raize a Company of Men for Train and Railroad protection: or, any other duty subject to your Excellency's order-- but-- unattached to any Regment-- if you will Commission me to do so,

I beg most respectfully to refer your Excellency to the following citizens of Lebanon Ky.

Messrs. L, A. Spaulding, Wick Ben -- Spaulding, Len Edlin, and William Brickin,

Most respectfully Your Excellency's Humble Servant Paul. J. Rattigan

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Ky State Guard Mt. Sterling Ky Septr 14th 1864

Rattigan Paul. J.
To the Gov. and referred

Asking authority to raise a Company for train or R. R. duty or any other. subject to the Govrnors order; but does not want to be attached to a Regt. Refers to divers gentlemen of Lebanon Ky.

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R. I G O. Septr 16-- 1864