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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 1st - 2nd Regiments Kentucky Cavalry Muster Rolls KYR-0002-033-0011 Box 45, Bundle 1

Washington, District of Columbia Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) N00005754 1827 Categories: People

Estill County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Estill County native. Married to Martha J. Henderson Kelley in Estill County on December 8, 1856. Father of Mary E. Kelley and Martha J. Kelley. Farmer in Estill County in 1860. Sergeant, first lieutenant, and captain in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from August 6, 1861, to April 28, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, p. 99. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill County, Station Camp Precinct, p. 24. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994033, Estill County Marriages. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 14-15. KYR-0002-033-0011. William Augustus Nichols (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, assistant adjutant general, lt. col.) N00005755 1818-05-12 1869-04-18 Categories: People

United States soldier. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Henrietta Virginia Nichols. Father of Francis Boude Nichols. Married to Clara Louise Nichols. Father of Edward Derussey Nichols, William Augustus Nichols, Jr., and Frank B. Nichols. Served in the U. S. Army in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, in 1850. Served in the U. S. Army in Georgetown, District of Columbia, in 1860. Served as assistant adjutant general under Edwin M. Stanton with the rank of lieutenant colonel from September 30, 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Military: Samuel Breck (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S. Army)) Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Legal: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Legal: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Legal: United States War Department Political: Charles McGuire (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Elizabeth City County, Old Point Comfort, p. 52A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, District of Columbia, Georgetown 1st Ward, p. 45. Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Reel 492, Trinity Episcopal Church Baptism Records, p. 76, p. 89 of 994 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Official Register of the United States (United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1862), 114. Hutchinson’s Washington and Georgetown Directory (Washington, District of Columbia, Hutchinson & Brothers Publishers, 1863), p. 155. Find A Grave, “William Augustus Nichols Sr. (1818-1869)," Memorial # 28398671, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28398671/william-augustus-nichols (accessed April 26, 2021). KYR-0002-033-0011. Samuel Breck (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S. Army)) N00005756 1834-02-25 1918-02-23 Categories: People

Massachusetts soldier. Middlesborough, Massachusetts, native. Married to Caroline Juliet Breck. Father of Samuel J. Breck. Graduate of United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1855. Served in the Third Seminole War. Professor of geography, history and ethics at West Point Academy in New York. Served in the 1st United States Artillery as first lieutenant and captain from 1861 to 1862. Served in the U. S. Army under General Irvin McDowell as assistant adjutant general on November 29, 1861. Brevetted brigadier general on March 13, 1865.

Relationships Military: Daniel A. Kelley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Political: Charles McGuire (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, Ward 8, p. 189. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 1 (New York: Appleton, 1889), 364. James Lorenzo Bowen, "Brevet Brigadier General Samuel Breck," Massachusetts in the War, 1861-1865 (Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan and Company, 1889), p. 888–90. 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. 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). 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005136 1861-10-28 1865-09-20 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Liberty, Kentucky; Burkesville, Kentucky; and Monticello, Kentucky. Mustered into service on October 28, 1861. And mustered out of service on September 20, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Frank Wolford, Colonel Silas Adams, Lieutenant Colonel John W. Letcher, and Lieutenant Colonel Francis N. Helveti.

Relationships 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: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: William D. Carpenter (1st Ky Cavalry regiment) Military: William C. Root (First Kentucky Cavalry Regiment.) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: John R. Foster (Washington County soldier, murdered by guerillas) Military: Samuel Green (Washington County soldier) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 2. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 1 (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1189-90. Washington, District of Columbia 1865-01-06 Order 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 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, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 6th, 1865.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 8.

(Extract.)

23. Under the provisions of General Orders, No. 108, April 28th, 1863, from this Office, Captain Daniel A. Kelley, 1st Kentucky Cavalry, an escaped Prisoner of War, is hereby mustered out and honorably discharged the service of the United States, with condition that he shall receive no final payments, until he has satisfied the Pay Department that he is not indebted to the Government.

By order of the Secretary of War:

W. A. NICHOLS, Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

Saml Breck Assistant Adjutant General.

Governor of Kentucky

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Kelly D. A Capt
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mustering him out and honorably discharging him from service-

Recd A. G. O. Jany. 13. 1865