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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Active Militia Records - Capital Guards, North Cumberland Btn., and Three Forks Btn. KYR-0002-060-0014 Box 76, Folder 864-865 1st REGT CAPITAL GUARDS CO F Frankfort Bn CORRESPONDENCE

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. [Unknown] Edwards (Kentucky, Capital Guard officer (U.S.A.)) N00009401 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Served in the Capital Guard Regiment of the Kentucky State Militia as a captain and a colonel (U.S.A.) Mentioned as a colonel in a petition in Marion, Kentucky, on February 16, 1864. Mentioned as a captain in correspondence in Georgetown, Kentucky, on April 11, 1864. Appears as a colonel of the First Kentucky Scouts in a petition on his behalf in Bath County, Kentucky.

Relationships Military: Capital Guard Regiment Military: Henry L. Leigh (Crittenden County, Kentucky, physician.) Military: S. U. Elder (Crittenden County, Kentucky, resident.) Military: John C. Henson (Marion, Kentucky, hotel keeper.) Military: James E. Black (Crittenden County, Kentucky, resident.) Military: James W. Wilson (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Alfred Armstrong (Marion, Kentucky, merchant, private (U.S.A.)) Military: John N. Woods (Marion, Kentucky, merchant.) Military: David Newton Stinson (Crittenden County, Kentucky, post master.) Military: James Hickman Walker (Crittenden County, Kentucky, merchant, private (C.S.A.)) Military: Robert Fulton Haynes (Marion, Kentucky, county attorney.) Military: Thomas L. Rogers Wilson (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer and Corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: William C. Carnahan (Crittenden County, Kentucky, saddler.) Military: James M. Steele (Crittenden County, Kentucky, carpenter.) Military: Berry S. Young (Crittenden County, Kentucky, County Clerk) Military: Wesley Taylor (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: John J. Lightfoot (Bath County, Kentucky, druggist) Military: Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) Military: William G. Satterfield (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John Miller (Bath County, Kentucky, copper & tin smith and jailor)

KYR-0002-060-0014. KYR-0002-060-0010. KYR-0001-002-0018. Van B. Young (Owingsville, Kentucky, circuit clerk, attorney, and politician) N00003130 1831? Categories: People

Owingsville, Kentucky, court clerk, attorney, U.S. marshal, police judge, and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas I. Young and Elizabeth Young. Married to Mary R. Bell Young in Bath County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1856. Resident of Bath County in 1850. Studied law with Judge Thomas B. Monroe, Sr., in Frankfort, Kentucky. U.S. Marshal in Bath County. Attorney in Owingsville in 1860. Police judge of Owingsville in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bath County from 1861 to 1863. Clerk of the Bath Circuit Court from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Bath County Court Legal: Richard Apperson, Jr. (11th District Circuit Judge) Legal: Wilkins Warren (Bath County, Kentucky, grocery keeper, 2nd lieut 24th KY Inf & 7th KY Cav USA, accused murderer & fugitive) Legal: Bath Circuit Court Legal: James M. Nesbitt (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney & comm'th atty) Legal: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Legal: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Legal: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, 1st Division, p. 109B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath, Owingsville, p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Fayette County Marriages, p. 7 of 29 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky (Louisville, KY: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 47. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 137. KYR-0001-017-0065. John J. Lightfoot (Bath County, Kentucky, druggist) N00009395 1828-03-07 1889-02-27 Categories: People

Bath County, Kentucky, druggist. Kentucky native. Son of Katherine Lightfoot. Married to Elizabeth Downing Lightfoot in Lancaster, Kentucky, on September 24, 1855. Father of William Lightfoot, John Lightfoot, Mathew Lightfoot, Fannie Lightfoot, and Eliza Lightfoot. Clerk in Bath County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Druggist in Owingsville, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Social: John Stewart (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and private, 10th KY Cav USA) Legal: Bath Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 1A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 296. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 7. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 5, p. 519A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 119. Find A Grave, "John James Lightfoot (1828-1889)," Memorial #172452764, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172452764 (accessed September 25, 2018). Wesley Taylor (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant) N00009396 1806 1885 Categories: People

Bath County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Taylor. Father of Ann Elizabeth Taylor, Lewis P. Taylor, William Z. Taylor, and Nannie Taylor. Merchant in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Merchant in Bath County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Robert Coulthard (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant) Social: John Stewart (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and private, 10th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 1B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 8. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74B. "Wesley Taylor (1806-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial 92835931, accessed September 25, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92835931. William G. Satterfield (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer) N00009392 1815? Categories: People

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Polly Wilson Bradshaw Satterfield in Bath County on February 3, 1835. Father of James H. Satterfield, Clemon F. Satterfield, Elmira Satterfield, Charles Satterfield, W. R. M. Satterfield, and William C. Satterfield. Farmer in Bath County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 105A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, 281. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 111. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film #000273004, p. 524. Bath County, Kentucky P00000478 Categories: Places

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Owingsville.

38.1058, -83.7199 "Bath County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 60. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bath County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 23, 2019). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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. Capital Guard Regiment O00009331 1863-07-11 1865? Categories: Organizations

Sanctioned by War Department as a regiment of Kentucky State Troops. Consisted of three battalions stationed near Frankfort, Paducah, and the Sandy Valley. Commander(s): Colonel Pierce B. Hawkins and Lieutenant Colonel Jesse J. Craddock.

Relationships Military: Manzer A. Payne (Graves County, Kentucky, hotelkeeper and major, 1st Capital Guards) Military: Col. 11th KY Inf) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: William J. Aulsebrook (Louisville, Kentucky, painter and private Frankfort Battal Cap Guard (U.S.A.)) Military: George Trulove (Trimble County, Kentucky, resident and private (U.S.A.))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 754-825. Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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To his Excellency Govenor Thomas E Bramlett Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of the County of Bath State of Ky, beg leave to represent unto your Excellency. the highly satisfactory manner, both as an officer and gentleman, in which Col Edwards of the 1st Ky Scouts, has conducted, affairs in this County, Since his arrival and sojourn among us- When he came, our Country was infested by Guerrillas and robbers -- Citizens were Herrassed and anoyed by the soldiery, but since his administration here and his disipline he has brought order out of Chaos- he has made us feel perfecly secure in our persons and property, a blessing that has been denied us since this cruel war began, And we have full Confidence, that he will ultimately succeed in stopping the many outrages. that the citizens have endured for so long a time (and to use a homely phrase,) We "think he is the right man in the right place,' And in view of these facts we take this method of informing you of our appreciation of his many qualities as an officer and a gentleman, and returning our thanks to you, for sending him among us, bulieving that ultimately he will restore our County to that peace the bessings of peace and quietude, which she has so long been a stranger to,, Again thanking you for your consideration of us We are Very Respectfully Your Obt Srvts &c

V. B. Young J J Lightfoot Jno Miller Wesley Taylor Wm G Satterfield

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