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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 1st - 20th Regiments Kentucky Infantry Primary Source Documents KYR-0002-024-0011 Box 7, Folder 3rd Ky Inf - Rosters & Deserters

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Dewitt C. Miller (Adair County, Kentucky, blacksmith and pvt 3rd Ky Inf USA) N00013015 1809? 1886? Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, blacksmith and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Parthena Beard Miller in Adair County, Kentucky, on March 11, 1834. Father of M. F. Miller, J. M. Miller, O. A. Miller, M. L. Miller, and D. W. Miller. Blacksmith in Adair County in 1850. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from October 1, 1861, to February 1, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 32B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film #000469187, p. 51 of 603 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 174. Find A Grave, "D.C. Miller (1809-1886)," Memorial #77857520, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77857520 (accessed July 6, 2020). John W. Murray (Kentucky corporal 3rd Ky Inf) N00013016 1817? Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as corporal from August 17, 1861, to July 1, 1862.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 174. Isham Bolin (Russell County, Kentucky, farmer & capt 3rd Ky Inf USA) N00013012 1805? Categories: People

Russell County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Julia Ann Bolin. Farmer in Russell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Russell County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from August 16, 1861, to March 22, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, District 2, p. 217. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, Russell, p. 680. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 170. John Calhoon (Casey County, Kentucky, farm laborer) N00013018 1834? Categories: People

Casey County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Son of William C. Calhoon and Sophia Calhoon. Resident of Casey County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Pulaski County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District 1, p. 333B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, District 2, p. 63. Joseph Morehead (Kentucky soldier) N00013011 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Mustered into service as a private in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) on October 8, 1861, and discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 610, 618-19. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 174. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #510809, Certificate #356284. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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). Liberty, Kentucky P00004355 Categories: Places

Seat of Casey County, Kentucky.

37.3184, -84.9394 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 181. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Liberty, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 3, 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). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). Medical Commissioner's Office O00012970 Categories: Organizations

Kentucky military board for approving the fitness of physicians to serve on the surgical staff of U.S. Army regiments. Headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.

Relationships Military: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician )

KYR-0002-009-0038. 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005679 1861-10-08 1864-10-18 Categories: Organizations

Originally organized as the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment, but subsequently renamed as the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Organized at Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on October 8, 1861. Mustered out of service on October 18, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Thomas E. Bramlette, Colonel William T. Scott, Colonel Samuel McKee, Colonel William H. Spencer, and Colonel Henry C. Dunlap.

Relationships Military: John Calhoon (Casey County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Military: John W. Murray (Kentucky corporal 3rd Ky Inf) Military: Dewitt C. Miller (Adair County, Kentucky, blacksmith and pvt 3rd Ky Inf USA) Military: Isham Bolin (Russell County, Kentucky, farmer & capt 3rd Ky Inf USA) Military: Joseph Morehead (Kentucky soldier)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 592-629. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-07-02 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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Louisville, Ky., July 2n 1865.

Governor Bramblet Dear Sir

I address you with a few lines and state to you that I have applied for a pension -- I took the depositions of D C Miller and John Murry proveing that I was in the United States Service and that I was on duty and at my post at the time of receiving my ingurys which was haveing my side brake in and was ruptured -- also I got the Certificate of diability from the board of Government Sergeans -- And proved my Identity by Captain Isam Borland and John Calhoon of Liberty -- and sent them up to Washington -- they acknowledged the Receipt of them -- they also require a Certifficate of some Commissand officer of the Regement^in this County case, also -- ^. I now ask you as a special favor to fill this Certifficate

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as ^I^ am perfectly un able to do heavy labour -- I wrote to you some time ^ago^ with regard to getting a new Discharge as I have last my old Discharge & hope you will attend to that --

I now subscribe myself yours Fraternally --

Joseph Morehead