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Second lieutenant in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from July 6, 1861, to May 31, 1862.
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U.S. Army soldier. Westernville, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth Halleck. Father of Harry Halleck. Attended the Hudson Academy. Attended Union College. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1839. Officer in the Corps of Engineers. Secretary of state of California under a temporary military government. A framer of the constitution of California. Resigned from the U.S. Army. Attorney in California from 1854 to 1861. Rejoined the U.S. Army as a major general on August 19, 1861. Commander of the Department of the Missouri in November 1861. Commander of the Department of the Mississippi. General-in-chief of the U.S. Army from July 1862 to March 1864. Chief of staff of the U.S. Army from March 1864 to 1865. Commander of the Military Division of the James until August 1865. Served in San Francisco, California, from August 1865 until 1869.
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United States assistant adjutant general. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1851. Assistant instructor of infantry tactics at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1857 and 1859. Chief Purchasing Commissary at St. Louis. Captain and assistant adjutant general of the Department of the West from June 13, 1861, to September 19, 1861. Colonel of the 9th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from September 19, 1861 to March 1, 1862. Assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Missouri from November 24, 1861, to March 11, 1862. Assistant adjutant general of the Department of the Mississippi from March 11, 1862, to July 11, 1862. Major, brevetted lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigadier general, and assistant adjutant general under Major General Halleck.
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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.
State in the southern United States. Capital at Jackson, Mississippi. Located on the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico.
This department existed in three separate periods. This department was created on March 11, 1862. Consisted of the Departments of Kansas, the Missouri, and the Ohio. The Department of Kansas was removed to form its own department on May 2, 1862, along with the Indian Territory west of Arkansas and the Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota territories. Kentucky west of the north-south line passing through Knoxville, Tennessee, was attached to this department on June 8, 1862. At this point the department consisted of all or part of twelve states—Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Michigan, and Ohio. On July 16, 1862, District of Ohio was transferred from the department. On August 19, 1862, several parts of the department were transferred to the Department of the Ohio—including Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, parts of Ohio and Michigan west of the north-south Knoxville line, the part of Kentucky east of the Tennessee River. On September 6, 1862, Iowa and Minnesota became part of the Department of the Northwest. This department was disbanded on September 19, 1862, transferring several entities to the Departments of the Missouri and the District of Ohio. Commander(s): Henry W. Halleck and Ulysses S. Grant.
The second was created on November 28, 1864. It was geographically defined by the state of Mississippi and the parts of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River. On January 17, 1865, this department consisted of the state of Mississippi—minus parts controlled by the troops of George H. Thomas. On February 10, 1865, the part of Mississippi controlled by Federal forces on the Mississippi River was added to this department. This department was disbanded on May 17, 1865. Commander(s): Napoleon J. T. Dana and Gouverneur K. Warren.
The third was created on June 27, 1865. It was geographically defined by the state of Mississippi and assigned to the Military Division of the Gulf. This department was disbanded on August 6, 1866. Commander(s): Henry W. Slocum.
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Organized at Camp Joe Holt and Muldraugh’s Hill, Kentucky. Mustered into service from September 9, 1861, to February 13, 1862. Mustered out of service from July 9, 1863, to July 27, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Buckner Board, Colonel Thomas P, Nicholas, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas B. Cochran, Lieutenant Colonel Elijah S. Watts, Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Eifort, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Starr.
HEAD QUARTERS,
Camp on Corinth Road, 186
st 1862,
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
No. 81,
4,, ,, The resignation of 2 d Lieut.
BY ORDER OF MAJOR GENERAL
Assistant Adjutant General.
2 Cav
Board
Lieut: Carr resig;