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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-0002-038-0028 Box 14, Folder BTRY C - 1st REGT LIGHT ARTILLERY 3nd BTRY OFFICERS

Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Hugh S. Rawls (Lincoln Co, TN, resident; KY serg. 1st Ky Light Artillery) N00013919 1837? 1877-05-05 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Tennessee native. Son of Luke Rawls and Sarah Rawls. Married to Julia Rawls. Father of David Rawls. Student in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1850. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as sergeant and first lieutenant from September 10, 1863, to March 23, 1865.

Relationships Political: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Lincoln County, Subdivision 1, p. 213A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis, Ward 9, p. 447A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0148, 0479. Returns From U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M617, Kentucky, Louisville, 1862 Jul - 1871 Jun, p. 67 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Louisville, Kentucky, City Directory, 1866, [database on-line] Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011, p. 171 (accessed via Ancestry.com). Missouri Death Records, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri, St. Louis County Deaths, 1876-1878, Microfilm, p. 147 of 562 (accessed via Ancestry.com). 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. Ambrose E. Burnside (Union general, Rhode Island rifleworks owner) N00005702 1824-05-23 1881-09-13 Categories: People

United States major general. Union County, Indiana, native. Married to Mary Richmond Bishop Burnside. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1847. Served in the 2nd United States Artillery Regiment from 1847 to 1853. Founded the Bristol Rifle Works in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1853. Colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment from April 16, 1861, to August 6, 1861. Commissioned brigadier general of United States volunteers on August 6, 1861. Commissioned major general of United States volunteers on March 18, 1862. Assigned to command the Army of the Potomac on November 8, 1862. Assigned to command of the Department of the Ohio on March 16, 1863. Resigned from the United States Army on April 15, 1865.

Relationships Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Confederate States Army Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Robert Prudy (Sergeant in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Economic: Henry E. Shawhan (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: James A. Cook (Harrison County, Kentucky, distiller) Economic: G. W. Taylor (person ) Economic: Tarr White (person ) Economic: Thomas Jefferson Megibben (Cynthania, Kentucky, distiller.) Political: Robert Morrow (Knoxville, TN, asst adjt gen'l to Gen JG Foster) Political: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Hugh S. Rawls (Lincoln Co, TN, resident; KY serg. 1st Ky Light Artillery) Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Robert Morrow (Knoxville, TN, asst adjt gen'l to Gen JG Foster)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 57-8. William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) N00005941 1840-09-10 1897-11-20 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, civil engineer and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Larz Anderson and Catharine Longworth Anderson. Married to Julia Worthington Anderson on July 21, 1863. Father of Vachel W. Anderson. Resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1850. Civil engineer in Cincinnati in 1860. Served in the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U. S. A.) as a corporal from April 20, 1861 to August 27, 1861. Served in the in the Department of the Ohio as a captain and assistant adjutant general from 1862, to March 18, 1864.

Relationships Military: Robert Prudy (Sergeant in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment) Military: Ambrose E. Burnside (Union general, Rhode Island rifleworks owner) Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Ohio Military: Government of the United States of America Military: John McAllister Schofield (West Point, New York, instructor & major general) Military: Erastus M. Gates (Illinois, student & 2d lieut. 45 KY Mtd Inf USA) Military: Paymaster Department Military: Ordnance Department U.S. Army Military: 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Joseph Kirby (Nelson County, KY, stage driver. 11th) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Robert Morrow (Knoxville, TN, asst adjt gen'l to Gen JG Foster)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 37A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 1, p. 52. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Enumeration District 125, pp. 462B-463C. Official Army Register for 1867, United States Adjutant General's Office, (Washington, D.C.: August 1, 1867), p. 97. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, vol. I, 1861-1866 (Akron: The Werner Company, 1893), 108. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 68752, State “William Pope Anderson (1840-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 33352225, accessed September 28, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33352225. KYR-0002-033-0033. 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. 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 1863-11-11 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Head-Quarters Department of the Ohio,

Cincinnati, Ohio, November 11th 1863. SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 423,~

3 ,, ,, ,, 1st Sergeant Hugh S. Rawls. Battery "C"1st Artillery Kentucky Volunteers, is discharged the service, to date from the sixth day of November 1863, to enable him to accept a Commission then tendered him by the Governor of Kentuckyand since when he has been acting in the capacity of a Commissioned Officer.

By Order of Major General Burnside. W. P. Anderson Assistant Adjutant General.

Governor of Kentucky.

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1st Artillery Hugh S. Rawls Discharge