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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Enrolled Militia Records 1864 - 1865 ; Adair, Allen, Boyle, Daviess, Garrard, Owen, Pendleton, and Shelby counties KYR-0002-079-0006 Flat Box 7, Folder 863-74 Marion County 1st Ky Militia, No of Enrolled Militia

Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky Henri F. Middleton (Shelby County, Kentucky, newspaper editor) N00013400 1813? 1878-09-11 Categories: People

Shelby County, Kentucky, newspaper editor. Virginia native. Married to Mary F. Middleton. Father of Mary A. R. Middleton and John N. H. Middleton. Newspaper editor in Shelby County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1850. Newspaper editor in Shelby County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860.

Relationships Economic: The Weekly Shelby News Social: Otho W. Harding (Shelby County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: The Commonwealth

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 296B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 248. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 1, p. 273B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, Shelbyville, p. 397B. "H. F. Middleton (1813-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 144499947, accessed April 6, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144499947. George Washington (Fairfax County, Virginia, president and commander in chief of the Continental Army) N00010531 1732-02-22 1799-07-12 Categories: People

Fairfax County, Virginia, soldier and statesman. Virginia native. Son of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. Married Martha Dandridge Custis Washington on the Pamunkey River, Colony of Virginia, on January 6, 1759. Surveyor in Culpeper County, Colony of Virginia, in 1749. Served as district adjutant of Virginia Militia in 1752. Commander of Virginia Regiment in 1755. Member of the House of Burgesses in 1758. Elected commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775. President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Elected president of the United States of America on April 30, 1789. By December of 1799, the Washington estate owned 317 enslaved persons.

Henry Wiencek, "George Washington (1732-1799)" in Encyclopedia of Virginia, Brendon Wolfe, ed., https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/GeorgeWashington1732-1799#startentry (accessed on April 5, 2019). John E. Ferling, _The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 31-60. Henry Clay (Fayette County, Kentucky, stateman) N00013401 1777-04-12 1852-06-29 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, statesman. Virginia native. Married to Lucretia Hart Clay in Lexington, Kentucky in April 1799. Father of Theodore W. Clay, James B. Clay, Susan Hart Clay, Anne Brown Clay, Thomas Hart Clay, Henry Clay, Jr., and John M. Clay. Elected to the Kentucky State Legislature in 1802. Defense attorney for Aaron Burr upon charges of conspiracy in Fayette County in 1806. Appointed to the United States Senate by the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on December 29, 1806. Elected to the United States House of Representatives and elected speaker of the house in 1811, 1813, 1815, and 1817. Nominated for president of the United States in 1824. Appointed secretary of state of the United States of America by John Adams in 1825. Elected to the United States Senate in 1830, and appointed president of the Senate of the United States in 1831. Nominated for president of the United States in 1844. Statesman in Fayette County in 1850.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 223A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 7-10. Find A Grave, "Henry Clay (1777-1852)," Memorial #203, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203/henry-clay (accessed September 5, 2020). Daniel Webster ("Black Dan" - Marshfield, MA, attorney and statesman) N00013496 1782-01-18 1852-10-24 Categories: People

Marshfield, Massachusetts, attorney and statesman. New Hampshire native. Son of Ebenezer Webster and Abigail Eastman Webster. Married to Grace Fletcher Webster in New Hampshire on May 29, 1808. Married to Caroline Roy Webster in New York, New York, on December 14, 1829. Graduate of Dartmouth College in 1801. Federalist member of the House of Representatives for the state of New Hampshire from 1813 to 1817. Member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Massachusetts from 1823 to 1827. Elected Senator for the state of Massachusetts from 1827 to 1841. Secretary of state for the United States of America from 1841 to 1843. Whig senator from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1850. Secretary of state for the United States of America from 1850 to 1852. Employed John Mason as a servant in Marshfield in 1850.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Marshfield, p. 152A. New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659-1900, "Vadney-Wadleigh," p. 343 (accessed on ancestry.com). New Hampshire, Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947 for Daniel Webster,, "Marriage, Pre-1901, Vinton-Weed," p. 2932 of 5106 of microfilm. New York, Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880 (Barber Collection), "New York Evening Post, 1829, December," p. 2 of 3 of microfilm (accessed on ancestry.com). "Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present, https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000238. 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. Otho W. Harding (Shelby County, KY, farmer and soldier) N00008584 1837? Categories: People

Shelby County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Henson Harding and Margaret Harding. Married to S. Belle Harding. Father of Joseph H. Harding. Farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Served in the Shelby County State Guard as first lieutenant from September 1, 1862, to November 1, 1862.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Militia

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 158. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 5, p. 486A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 856. 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). United States of America P001802 Categories: Places

Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

38.8951, -77.0364 Karl Patterson Schmidt et al., "United States" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States) (accessed May 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, District of Columbia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 29, 2020). Shelbyville, Kentucky P00002066 Categories: Places

Seat of Shelby County, Kentucky.

38.212, -85.2236 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 269. "Shelbyville County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Shelby County, Kentucky P001013 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Shelbyville.

38.212, -85.2236 Ron D. Bryant, "Shelby County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 816. "Shelbyville County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 30, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Weekly Shelby News O00013452 1840? 1866? Categories: Organizations

Shelby County, Kentucky, newspaper. Organized as a weekly newspaper in 1840 as The Shelby News. Renamed The Weekly Shelby News in 1855. Edited by Henri F. Middleton from 1840 until it was renamed c1866.

"The Shelby News (Shelbyville, Ky.) 1840-1855," https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82014529/. "The Weekly Shelby News (Shelbyville, Ky.) 1855-186?," https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86069086. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) 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: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). Kentucky State Militia O00000916 1792 Categories: Organizations

The Kentucky State Militia consisted of two principal branches, active and enrolled. From its founding, the Commonwealth of Kentucky operated a county-based, universally enrolled militia consisting of all white males of military age. The active militia, consisting of volunteer companies, was organized in 1860 as the Kentucky State Guard.

Relationships Military: Alexander W. Nickell (Morgan County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer and soldier) Military: 65th Regiment of Kentucky Militia (U.S.A.) Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Sebastian C. Vick (Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Military: [Unknown] Mitchell (Mason County, Captain of State Guard Unit) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Military: James F. Tureman (Kenton County, KY, bookkeeper and Quartermaster 22nd Infty USA) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Thomas Hall (Washington County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Military: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Goldman H. Goodman (Anderson County, KY, physician) Military: James A. Hawkins (Anderson County, KY, paymaster ) Military: William Morrison (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: William C. Wood (Clinton County, KY, farmer) Military: George W. Mathews (Anderson County, Kentucky, police judge) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Richard G. Stone, “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky 1863-10-14 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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The Shelby News

Is the best village paper in Kentucky, and is published at the following terms: -- 1 copy, per year$2 0020 copies,30 00

&#9758;Cash in advance in all cases

&#9758;ADVERTISEMENTS inserted upon reasonable terms, viz: -- One square, (1 inch or less,) one insertion,$100Second insertion50Each additional insertion,25One Square, 12 months,1200One column, one year.8000

A reasonable deduction wil be made to yearly advertisers. WEEKLY SHELBY NEWS: ESTABLISHED IN 1840. -- CIRCULATION ABOUT 3,000. HENRI F. MIDDLETON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citzens.) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of a republican government. -- WASHINGTON,

The Shelby News

Has always been a firm supporter of the principles first laid down by WASHINGTON, and since advocated by CLAY, WEBSTER, and others, viz: That Americans shall rule America; and protection by the Government, to American manufactures, labor and other interests.

Address, HENRI F. MIDDLETON, Editor Shelby News, Shelbyville, Ky.

Office of The Shelby News, Shelbyville, Ky. October 14, 1863 His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette, Governor, &c

In Order, No. 3, you desire citizens to recommend suitable persons, who will act, as Colonel and Lieut. Colonel under the state Guard Law.

I had, on reading the Order, determined to recommend the Mr. Otho Harding, of this county, as a person, in every way qualified, as I believe for the position of Lieut Colonel; but desired to see if he would serve. Having learned from him that he would, I now suggest him for that position. He is active, brave, educated, and while in service, had the

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under the State Authorities, last Fall and Winter, had the confidence and esteem, and respect of all soldiers and officers he associated with

Yours &c most respectfully Henri F. Middleton

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Shelby Co Oct 14/63

Recm"g,, for this county Otho Harding Lt Col H. F. Middleton