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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 1st - 20th Regiments Kentucky Infantry Primary Source Documents KYR-0002-024-0007 Box 7, Folder 2nd Ky Infantry - Misc

Washington, District of Columbia William L. Reed (Columbus, Ohio, ass't surgeon 2nd Ky Inf USA) N00013003 Categories: People

Columbus, Ohio soldier. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as assistant surgeon to March 11, 1863.

Relationships Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 943. Edmund T. Long (Henry County, Kentucky, physician and ass't surgeon 6th Ky Inf USA) N00013046 1822-07-25 1898-07-21 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky physician and soldier. Kentucky native. Physician in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as assistant surgeon from March 23, 1862, to August 31, 1864.

Relationships Military: 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Social: William Wirt Rowlett (Henry County resident; corp & QM sgt 2nd Ky Cav U.S.A., 27th Ky Cav USA)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 305. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Pleasureville, p. 360A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 718. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 205. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #891119, Certificate #678180. Find A Grave, "Dr. E.T. Long (1822-1898)," Memorial #86684316, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86684316 (accessed July 8, 2020). William Alexander Hammond (Maryland soldier and Surgeon General of the U.S. Army) N00013001 1828-08-28 1900-01-05 Categories: People

Maryland soldier and surgeon general of the United States Army. Maryland native. Married to Helen Nisbit Hammonds in 1849. Father of Summerville Hammond, Clarra Nesbit Hammond, and Graham Mansol Hammond. Served in the U.S. Army as assistant surgeon from 1849 to 1860. Employed Debora Davis and Issabella Fisher as domestic servants in Mackinac County, Michigan, in 1860. Chair of the departments of anatomy and physiology at the University of Maryland in 1860. Served in the United State Army as surgeon general from April 1862 to August 1864. Tried by court-martial and dismissed from service in August 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Michigan, Mackinac County, Mackinac Island, p. 994. "Noted Marylander Dead, Former Surgeon-General Hammond Suddenly Expires,"The Baltimore Sun(Baltimore, Maryland), January 6, 1900, p. 2. Edward Swift Dunster (Massachusetts soldier and assistant surgeon general U.S. Army) N00013002 1834-09-02 1888-05-03 Categories: People

Massachusetts soldier and assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Army. Maine native. Son of Samuel Dunster and Susan Down Dunster. Married to Rebecca Morgan Sprole Dunster on November 4, 1863. Graduated from Harvard College in 1856 (BA) and 1859 (MA). Graduated from New York College of Medicine and Surgery in March 1859. Physician in New York, New York, in 1860. Served in the United States Army as assistant surgeon general from August 5, 1861, to February 1, 1866.

Relationships Military: William Henry French (Dawson, Texas, major & colonel, 2nd & 4th US Artillery) Military: Edmund T. Long (Henry County, Kentucky, physician and ass't surgeon 6th Ky Inf USA) Military: William L. Reed (Columbus, Ohio, ass't surgeon 2nd Ky Inf USA) Political: Office of the Surgeon General of the United States of America Military: Office of the Surgeon General of the United States of America

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Rhode Island, Providence County, Providence Ward 1, p. 5A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, New York Ward 18, District 3, p. 692. "Edward Swift Dunster,"History of the University of Michigan, 249-50, http://umhistory.dc.umich.edu/history/FacultyHistory/D/Dunster,EdwardSwift.html (accessed on July 3, 2020). Frederick A.P. Barnard, _American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men...: Michigan Volume (Cincinnati: Western Biographical Publishing Co., 1878), 30-31. Find A Grave, "Dr. Edward Swift Dunster (1834-1888)," Memorial #30522593, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30522593 (accessed July 3, 2020). 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. William Henry French (Dawson, Texas, major & colonel, 2nd & 4th US Artillery) N00013047 1815-01-13 1881-05-20 Categories: People

Dawson, Texas soldier. Maryland native. Married to Carolina French. Father of Frank French, William French, Anna French, Frederick French, and Ross French. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1837. Served in the U.S. Army as a major in Dawson, Texas, in 1860. Served in the 2nd United States Artillery (U.S.A.) as major from October 26, 1861, to February 8, 1864. Served in the 4th United States Artillery (U.S.A.) as colonel from February 8, 1864, to July 2, 1877.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Texas, Dawson County, p. 390. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (accessed via Fold3.com), p. 437. "Death of General French,"National Republican (Washington, District of Columbia), May 21, 1881, p. 1. Find A Grave, "William Henry French (1815-1881)," Memorial #5842136, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5842136 (accessed July 8, 2020). 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). 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). Office of the Surgeon General of the United States of America O00013208 1798? Categories: Organizations

Office of Medical Administration of the United States Army. Established in 1798 as the administrative office of the United States Marine Hospital Service by the United States Congress.

Relationships Military: Edward Swift Dunster (Massachusetts soldier and assistant surgeon general U.S. Army)

"History,"Office of the Surgeon Generalhttps://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/about/history/index.html, viewed on August 6, 2020. 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00009977 1861-05 1864-06-19 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Pendleton, Hamilton County, Ohio. Mustered into service in May and June, 1861. Mustered out of service on June 19, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel William E. Woodruff, Colonel Thomas D. Sedgewick, Lieutenant Colonel George W. Neff, Lieutenant Colonel Warner Spencer, and Lieutenant Colonel John R. Hurd.

Relationships Military: George McFadden (Louisville, Kentucky, bar keeper and soldier)

Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1198. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 556-93. 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00004925 1861-12-24 1864-11-02 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Sigel in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 24, 1861. Mustered out of service on November 2, 1864. Veterans were transferred to the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Commanding Officer(s): Colonel Walter C. Whitaker and Colonel George T. Shackelford.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 718-49. Joseph R. Reinhart, A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S.: The Boys Who Feared No Noise (Louisville: Beargrass Press, 2000). United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) 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: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Washington, District of Columbia 1863-05-15 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Surgeon General's Office Washington City, D.C. May 15th 1863

Sir, Official notification has been received at this office, of the following vacancies in regiments from your State. Asst. Surg.2nd Ky. viceW. L. Reed,resignedMarch 11th 1863" "6th " "E. T. Long"" 1863

It is desirable that such of these vacancies as still exist, be filled as soon as may be consistent with the interests of the service.

Very respectfully Your obedient servant.

By order of the Surgeon General.

E S Dunster Asst. Surgeon U.S. Army

His Excellency James F. Robinson.

Governor of Kentucky.

Frankfort. Kentucky.

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Genl French

Surg. Genl Washington (D C)

Filed May 26. 1863