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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-0002-079-0016 Flat Box 7, Folder 861-865 GARRAD COUNTY RECRUITING & RAISING CO. 7th Rgt Ky Militia

Bryantsville, Garrard County, Kentucky Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) N00002747 1798 1871-12-31 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and member of military board. Kentucky native. Married to Jane L. Swigert. Mayor of Frankfort in 1849. Owned twenty-two slaves in Frankfort in 1860. Partner with William McKee in the Lexington, Frankfort & Louisville Railroad in 1858. Clerk in Frankfort in 1850. Clerk in Frankfort in 1860. President of the Farmers Bank of Kentucky in Frankfort in 1860. Secretary of the Military Board of Kentucky in 1861.

Relationships Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Economic: Farmers' Bank of Kentucky Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Hiram J. Jones (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Hiram J. Jones (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Charles Hunter May (Boyle Co, KY, merchant & Mercer Co, KY, postmaster) Political: Military Board of Kentucky Military: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 107. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 119. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin, Frankfort District 1, p. 27. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort , p. 12. Carl E. Kramer, "Frankfort" in John E. Kleber, ed. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 353. Report of the Military Board of Kentucky, Made to the General Assembly, September 10, 1861 (Frankfort: Yeoman Office, 1861), 3. Find A Grave, “Philip Swigert (unknown-1871),” Memorial #68833254, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68833254 (accessed May 22, 2017). Nicholas Sandifer (Judge of Garrard County Court) N00004743 1818-03-18 1905-02-24 Categories: People

Lancaster, Kentucky, county judge. Kentucky native. Married to Mary J. Green Sandifer in Garrard County, Kentucky, on August 14, 1845. Presiding judge of Garrard County Court from c1860 to c1864.

Relationships Legal: Garrard County Court Legal: John Tanner (Garrard Co. ) Legal: William Jennings Landram (Garrard County, Kentucky, clerk and colonel 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Garrard County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Lancaster, p. 4. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000183256, Garrard County Marriages, p. 35. Nicholas Sandifer, “Autobiography: Of Judge Nicholas Sandifer,” The Register of Kentucky Historical Society 60, No. 3 (July, 1962), 167-82. Find A Grave, “Judge Nicholas Sandifer (March 18, 1818-February 24, 1905),” Memorial #82074083, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82074083 (accessed June 4, 2017). Charles J. Spillman (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) N00013652 1832? Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James and Permelia Spillman. Married to Mary Ann Robinson in Garrard County on November 21, 1851. Father of Sally Spillman, Medora Spillman, James Spillman, Charles Spillman, Permelia Spillman, and Mary Spillman. Farmer in Garrard County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1850. Farmer in Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned thirty one enslaved persons in Lancaster in 1860.

Relationships Military: Garrard County Home Guard Political: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Political: Nicholas Sandifer (Judge of Garrard County Court)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 1, p. 239B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 1, p. 8. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 747. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 33-34. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Bryantsville, District 4, p. 458B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 437. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 270. Bryantsville, Kentucky P00013651 Categories: Places

Village in Garrard County, Kentucky.

37.7145, -84.6491 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 39. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Bryantsville, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 28, 2020). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. 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). Garrard County, Kentucky P001011 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lancaster. Located on the Kentucky River.

37.6195, -84.578 "Garrard County" in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 488-89. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Garrard County, Kentucky" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 13, 2020). Garrard County Home Guard O00013650 1861-06 Categories: Organizations

State militia organization from Garrard County, Kentucky, consisting of two cavalry companies and one pistol company. Commander(s): Captain William Jennings Landram.

Report of the Military Board of Kentucky, made to the General Assembly, September 10, 1861 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 7. KYR-0002-079-0015. KYR-0002-079-0016. Bryantsville, Garrard County, Kentucky 1861-06-26 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Bryantsville26th June/61 P Swigert FrankfortKy Dr Sir

When I saw You in Frankfort Monday the 17th You took my address promising to send me such instructions bond &c as would be needed in making up a company of H. G.. You will please forward immediately as a company will be organized on Saturday at this place & we want to be on hand in time for .. The County Judge will be on hand to hold the Election &c

Truly Yours C. J. Spilman

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6 C. J. Spilman Home Guards Garrard Recd & ans 27" June 1861.