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November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Union Artillery, Navy and Marines Primary Source Documents ; Misc U.S.C.T. Primary Source Documents KYR-0002-038-0019 Box 14, Folder BTRY B, 2nd Battery, 1st REGT LIGHT ARTILLERY OFFICERS

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Mathew Henry Turner (Adair Co, Kentucky, farmer; pvt & lieut 1st Ky Lt Art & 13th Ky Cav USA) N00005763 1839? Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James Turner and Catharine Turner. Farmer in Columbia, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as private and lieutenant from October 8, 1861, to January 8, 1863. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from December 23, 1863, to January 10, 1865.

Relationships Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: James W. Weatherford (Colonel in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ) Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, District 1, p. 67. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 357. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0147. Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) N00006168 1820-03-06 1899-07-02 Categories: People

Washington, D. C., soldier and engineer. Clinton, Connecticut, native. Son of Edward Wright and Nancy Wright. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1841. Married to Louisa M. Bradford Wright on August 11, 1842. Father of Mary H. Wright, Edward B. Wright, and Rosa Wright. Assistant professor at U.S. Military Academy from 1842 to 1844. Member of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1841 to 1884. Served as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain from 141 to 1855. Served as assistant to the chief engineer from 1855 to 1861 in Washington, D. C. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 14, 1861. Commander of the Department of the Ohio from 1862 to 1863. Appointed major general on May 12, 1864. Commander of U. S. Army Sixth Corps from 1864 to April 1865.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: William Nelson (U.S. Army major general)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Washington, D. C., Ward 1, p. 357-58. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, New York, Ward 15 District 1, p. 378B. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, eds. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske (New York: Appleton, 1889), 623. Ezra J. Warner Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 575-76. "Horatio G. Wright (1820-1899)," Arlington National Cemetery, accessed June 5, 2019, https://ancexplorer.army.mil. “Memoir of Horatio Gouverneur Wright,” Transactions of American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 46 (December 1901), 551-54. Official Army Register for January 1880 (Washington, D.C: Adjutant General’s Office), 96. Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT) N00013873 1830-03-21 1904-05-10 Categories: People

Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers (U.S. Army). Massachusetts native. Son of Moses Foster and Mary E. Foster. Veteran of the U.S.-Mexican War. Shoemaker in Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1860. Served as captain and assistant adjutant general of U.S. Volunteers from September 1861, to May 1863. Served as chief of Bureau for Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) from May 22, 1863, to November 1867. Breveted major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of U.S. Volunteers.

Relationships Military: United States Bureau of Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Essex, Groveland, p. 28. Guy V. Henry, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, vol. 1 (New York: Van Nostrand, 1873), 21. Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987), 130. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, New York, Application #811220. Find A Grave, "Col Charles Warren Foster (1830-1904)," Memorial #127326695, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127326695 (accessed December 29, 2020). 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. Cincinnati, Ohio P00001208 Categories: Places

Seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River.

39.1031, -84.512 "Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17. Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. Department of the Ohio O001001 1861-05-09 1866-08-06 Categories: Organizations

This department existed in three separate periods. This department was created on May 3, 1861. It was geographically defined by the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. On May 9, 1861, the department was expanded to include portions of Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The department was reconfigured to include Indiana, Ohio, and a portion of Western Virginia, removing the state of Illinois and portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland. On September 19, 1861, the department was redefined as the states of Indiana and Ohio, and the area of Kentucky within fifteen miles of Cincinnati, Ohio. And on November 9, 1861, the department was redefined as the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, and the portions of Kentucky east of the Cumberland River. This department was disbanded on March 11, 1862 and combined with the Mountain Department and the Department of the Mississippi. Commander(s): George B. McClellan, William S. Rosecrans, Ormsby M. Mitchel, and Don Carlos Buell.

The second was created on August 19, 1862. It was geographically defined as the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, the portion of Kentucky east of the Tennessee River, and inclusive of Cumberland Gap and all Federal forces operating in its vicinity. Wisconsin transferred to the Department of the Northwest on September 6, 1862. On September 19, 1862, Alton, Illinois transferred to the Department of Missouri and all of Western Virginia joined the Department of the Ohio. Cairo, Illinois transferred to the Department of the Tennessee on October 16, 1862. On March 16, 1863, all of Western Virginia moved to the Middle Department. Gallipolis, Ohio and the Ohio shoreline opposite the mouth of Kanawha River joined the Middle Department on June 9, 1863. On June 9, 1863, Columbiana, Jefferson, and Belmont Counties in Ohio joined the Department of the Monongahela. On June 23, 1863, Monroe, Athens, Washington, Meigs, Gallia, and Lawrence Counties in Ohio joined the Middle Department. The department joined the Military Division of the Mississippi on October 16, 1863, joining the Departments of the Cumberland and the Tennessee. On November 16, 1863, the department was reconfigured to include the portions of Kentucky east of the Tennessee River and parts of East Tennessee under the control of the Army of the Ohio. Jeffersonville, Indiana joined the department on February 8, 1864. Covington, Kentucky and the surrounding fifteen mile radius joined the Northern Department. This department was disbanded on January 17, 1865 and joined the Department of the Cumberland. Commander(s): Horatio G. Wright, Ambrose E. Burnside, John G. Foster, John M. Schofield, and George Stoneman.

The third was created on June 27, 1865. It was geographically defined as the states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, with the exception of Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana. The state of Wisconsin was added to the department on October 30, 1865. On June 5, 1866, the Department of Kentucky—along with Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana—were added to the department. This department was disbanded on August 6, 1866 and consolidated into the Department of the Lakes. Commander(s): Edward O. C. Ord and Orlando B. Wilcox.

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861—1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2, The Western Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 126-37. 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) O00011727 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Organized between July 1861 and September 1863. Mustered out between November 1864 and November 1865. Consisted of Batteries "A," "B," "C," "D" (did not complete organization), and "E," and the First Kentucky Independent Battery.

Relationships Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: William K. Irwin (U.S. Army sergeant and lieutenant) Military: John H. Mellen (Jefferson County, Indiana, merchant and serg. 1st Ky Light Artillery) Military: John W. Walls (Adair co. pvt and sergeant 1st Ky Light Art.) Military: Ludwig "Lewis" M. Lawrence (Putnam Co. IN, shoemaker, Ky soldier (pvt. 1st Ky L.A)) Military: John J. Hawes (Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, attorney, judge advocate + capt. 1st Ky Lt.Art.) Military: James Munroe (Hawkins Co. Tn, pvt 1st Ky. Lt. Artillery) Military: James H. Anderson (Montgomery County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 1st Ky Lt.Artillery ) Military: Zachariah Vaughan (Overton, Tennessee, farmer; pvt TN Cav CSA; pvt 1st Ky Lt Artillery) Military: Robert Hamner (Tuscaloosa, AL, farmer + pvt 1st Ky. L. A.) Military: Jeremiah Herbert (Kenton County, Kentucky, currier and pvt. 4th Ky Mtd Inf + 1st Ky LtArtillery) Military: James O'Brien (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland) Military: Charles A. Carpenter (Jay County, Indiana, farmer and pvt 1st Ky. Lt Artillery) Military: Robert C. Burritt (Railroad worker and pvt. 3rd FL (CSA) and 1st Ky Lt Artillery (usa)) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Germain Dettweiler (Louisville, Kentucky, porter and soldier) Military: John W. Neville (marion co KY, barkeeper and capt. 1st Ky Light Artillery) Military: Richard W. McReynolds (U.S. Army lieutenant, captain, 1st Ky Lt Artil.; Illinois native) Military: Hugh S. Rawls (Lincoln Co, TN, resident; KY serg. 1st Ky Light Artillery) Military: Edwin W. Gould (Will Co. Illinois, farmer, sergeant 1st Ky Light Artillery) Military: Charles L. Bradley (Kalamazoo, Michigan, farmer and soldier) Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Ambrose E. Burnside (Union general, Rhode Island rifleworks owner) Military: David C. Stone (U.S. Army captain; 1st Ky L.A and 5th USCT ) Military: Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (Campbell County, Kentucky, student, teacher, capt 5th Ky Artillery USA) Military: Charles McGuire (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland) Military: John Middleton Hewett (Jefferson County, Kentucky, photographer and U.S. Army captain) Military: Mathew Henry Turner (Adair Co, Kentucky, farmer; pvt & lieut 1st Ky Lt Art & 13th Ky Cav USA) Military: Alban Allen Ellsworth (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: George W. Nell (Adair County, Kentucky, merchant and 1st Lieut. 1st Ky L. A.) Military: George H. Travis (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 520-21. Kentucky Volunteers O00000870 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

The official organization of Kentucky military forces under the command of the Adjutant General of Kentucky. Organized into infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments. Civil War-era Adjutant Generals: Scott Brown (1859-1861); John W. Finnell (1861-1863); John Boyle (1863-1864); Daniel W. Lindsey (1864-1867).

Relationships Military: George Reid Barber (Captain Barber's Company) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Fleming County State Guard (Captain Barber's Company) Military: Charles Hayden (Frankfort, Kentucky, clerk and soldier) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: George B. Baum (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Arthur J. Harrington (Jefferson County, KY, printer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: Alexander James Umphrey (NYC, NY, private(U.S.A.)) Military: Charles R. Griffith (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and treasurer ) Economic: Louisville & Nashville Railroad Military: Robert G. Purdy (Marion County, KY, blacksmith and soldier (U.S.A.)) Military: Frank P. Cahill (Cincinnati, Ohio, hotelkeeper & capt, maj, & lt col 1st KY Inf USA) Military: William H. Taylor (Kenton County, Kentucky, clerk, 1st lieut & pvt 2nd Ky Inf, ) Military: Samuel L. Christie (Cincinnati, Ohio,1st lieut & capt 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas Foreman (Jeffersonville, Indiana, lieut & capt 5th Ky Inf USA) Military: Robert Stuart (Lincoln County, Tennessee, physician and asst surg 2nd Ky Cav USA) Military: George A. Little (Daviess, KY, capt 17th Ky Inf USA) Military: John D. Lenahan (Louisville, Kentucky painter and soldier) Military: John Francis Wisnewski (Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio glycerin maker and soldier) Military: Henry Frederick Kalfus (Bullitt County, Kentucky, physician, major (U.S.A.)) Military: George A. Richardson (Louisville, Kentucky pilot and soldier) Military: Abram P. Brown (Kentucky soldier) Military: Oscar D. Kress (Clark County, Kentucky soldier) Military: George A. Hanniford (Kentucky 1st lieut 49th Ky Inf USA) Military: James M. Bailey (Logan County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon 26th Ky Inf USA, acting chief surgeon of US forces 1863) Military: Frederick Guy (Clark County, Indiana, clerk, farmer, 26th Ky Inf USA) Military: Milton A. Sivey (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky soldier) Military: Emory R. Harrington (Boyle County, Kentucky silversmith, 4th Ky Mtd Inf USA) Military: Allen S. Whetstone (Ohio soldier) Military: Henry P. Merrill (Michigan soldier) Military: Alvin O. Pattee (Kentucky butcher and soldier) Military: Edmund B. Randolph (Kentucky soldier) Military: William W. Sanders (Boyle County, Kentucky, 1st lieut & capt 4th KY Inf USA) Military: James A. Moores (Estill County, Kentucky laborer and soldier) Military: John W. Combs (Monroe County, Kentucky, constable and soldier) Military: James Peter Hiatt (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Peter Hinkle (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st lieut & capt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: Hugh White Adams (Knox County, KY, clerk and lt thru maj 7th KY Inf USA) Military: David C. Thurman (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer and sgt. ;ieut 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Shadrach L. Mitchell (Lewis County, Kentucky, artist and soldier) Military: Joseph H. Davis (Livingston County, Kentucky, farmer and lieut 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: William Sears (Whitley County, Kentucky, farmer, boat builder, and capt 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: James H. Tinsley (Knox County, Kentucky, sgt, lieut & adj in 3rd Ky Inf, 7th Ky Inf, 49th Ky Inf USA) Military: John B. Stivers (Bourbon County, KY, carpenter and 2nd lieut 7th Ky Inf USA) Military: Thomas H. Wilson (Jackson County, Kentucky, merchant; sgt, lieut, & capt 7th KY Inf USA) Military: Elhannon W. Murphy (Clay County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: William Berry (McLean County, Kentucky, physician &surgeon 7th KY Inf USA) Military: Edward R. Palmer (Louisville, KY, physician, army surgeon, VT clerk) Military: William. T. Morrow (Bullitt County, Kentucky, farm laborer & 28th KY Inf corporal, 1st lieut & commissary sgt) Military: Williamson W. Bacon (Jefferson County, KY, 22nd Inf: 1st sgt, 2nd lieut, & capt; 7th Inf: capt) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 55th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 28th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866). 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. Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 1863-01-22 Order English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 42} HEAD QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO.

Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22nd 1863

The resignation of 2nd Lieutenant Matthew H. Turner "Hewitts Battery Kentucky" Volunteers, is hereby accepted, to take effect on the (22nd) twenty-second day of January 1863.

BY ORDER OF MAJOR GENERAL WRIGHT. C. W. Foster Assistant Adjutant General.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Governorof Kentucky

Hewitts' Batt: Lt. Turner resig:

filed Jany. 24, 1863.

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