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Washington, District of Columbia Charles McGuire (Private 1st kentucky light artillery, native of ireland) N00013925 1840? 1927-01-10 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Native of Derry, Ireland. Printer in 1863. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from August 27, 1863, to June 5, 1865.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0149. Historical Register of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, NARA RG15, Microfilm Series M1749, Sawtelle, p. 15612. (accessed via Ancestry.com). Andrew Johnson (Tennessee, vice-president and president of the USA) N001801 1808-12-29 1875-07-31 Categories: People

Sixteenth Vice President and seventeenth President of the United States. Raleigh, North Carolina, native. Married to Eliza McCardle Johnson in 1827. Father of Martha Johnson Patterson, Charles Johnson, Mary Johnson Stover, Robert Johnson, and Andrew Johnson, Jr. Tailor in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Green County, Tennessee. Member of the Democratic Party. Elected as alderman of Green County, Tennessee in 1829. Elected mayor of Greeneville in Green County in 1834. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee from Greene County from 1835 to 1837. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee from Washington County from 1839 to 1841. Democratic presidential elector from Tennessee in 1840. Member of the Senate of the State of Tennessee from 1841 to 1843. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 1st District of Tennessee from 1843 to 1853. Governor of the State of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857. Member of the Senate of the United States from Tennessee from 1857 to 1862. Military governor of Tennessee, with the rank of brigadier general, from 1862 to 1865. National Union Party Vice President of the United States from March 4, 1865 to April 14, 1865. President of the United States from April 15,1865 to March 4, 1869, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, National Park Service, “Andrew Johnson Timeline,” https://www.nps.gov/anjo/learn/historyculture/timeline.htm, accessed on October 24, 2016. Hans L. Trefousse, Andrew Johnson: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989). 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. 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). Fort Jefferson P00013388 Categories: Places

Union fort located in the Dry Tortugas Islands in the Florida Keys. Served as a Union confinement prison and labor camp from September 1861.

24.628, -82.873 Craig M. Bennett, Jr., "Rebuilding the Walls of Fort Jefferson," Structure Magazine (May 2013), 30-33. Thomas Reid, America's Fortress, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 10–14. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Fort Jefferson, Florida," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 3, 2020). Florida P00002512 Categories: Places

State in the extreme southeast of the United States. Capital at Tallahassee. Located on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.

30.4383, -84.2807 Robert H. Fuson and Robert J. Norrell, "Florida" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Florida) (accessed on June 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Tallahassee, Florida," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 17, 2021). 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). Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) O00010608 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Chief administrative office of the U.S. Army. Operated from 1847 to 1964. Responsible for organizing recruits into companies and regiments with the assistance of state adjutant generals. Adjutant general during the Civil War: Lorenzo Thomas (1861-1869).

Relationships Political: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (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: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)

Stephen E. Bower, A Short History of the U.S. Army Adjutant General's Corps, 1775-2013, (Fort Jackson, SC: U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute, 2013). Military District of Kentucky O00000273 1863-05-22 1865-01-17 Categories: Organizations

Military district in the Department of the Ohio. Commanders: Jeremiah T. Boyle (1863); Jacob Ammen (1863-1864); Stephen G. Burbridge (1864); Edward H. Hobson (1864); and Stephen G. Burbridge (1864-1865).

Relationships Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Economic: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Economic: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky) Military: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 132-34. 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. 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). 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. Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky O00000388 1793 Categories: Organizations

The office of the chief military officer and advisor to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 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: Hall's Gap Battalion Political: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: John L. Lamb (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Douglas Jones (Union County, laborer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Houston L. Keesee (Union County, farmer and soldier) Military: Alderson T. Keen (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Silas Adams (Union Lt. Col, kentucky attorney.) Military: Francis M. Helveti (1st ky cavalry and professor) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Albert G. Huffman (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George H. Norton (Private and hospital steward in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry ) Military: Granville Jasper Vaught (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: John Brent Fishback (Louisville/Garrard/Pulaski /1st KY Cav) Military: Josiah "Joe" D. Beatie (Pulaski Co, KY, corp, 2d Lieut, & Capt1st ky cav USA) Military: Thomas J. Graves (Russell County, KY, 1st sgt & 1st Lieut 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: James L. Pankey (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Tilford N. Bruner (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Phillip Roberts (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George Watkins Drye (Casey County, KY, Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Thomas Rowland (Cumberland Co, Ky; sgt, lieut, maj in 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: William D. Carpenter (1st Ky Cavalry regiment) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: S. J. Layman (Assistant surgeon for 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Robert Armstrong Athey (Kenton County, lawyer, asst. adjutant general for KY vols (U.S.A.)) Military: Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Robert L. Wilson (Crittenden County, KY, farmer) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Political: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) 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: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Washington, District of Columbia 1865-05-03 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 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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SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 203.} WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, May 3d, 1865.

The unexpired portion of the sentence of the General Court Martial, convened by Special Orders, No. 152, Headquarters, District of Kentucky, of June 27th, 1864, in the case of Private Charles McGuire, Battery "E," 1st Kentucky Artillery, now supposed to be in confinement at Fort Jefferson, Florida, is remitted, and he will be discharged the service of the United States, upon the receipt of this Order at the place where he may be serving.

By order of the President of the United States: W. A. NICHOLS, Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL: Saml Breck Assistant Adjutant General.

Governorof Kentucky

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Comp E. 1' Arty

War Department Adjt. Genl office Washington May. 3. 1865

Nichols W. A. A. A. G.

Order --

Remitting unexpired portion of sentence of Genl Court Martial in case of private Chas. McGuire Batt. E. 1" Ky Arty, and discharging him from the service --

Recd A. G. O. Ky 9 May 1865