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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-0002-079-0017 Flat Box 7, Folder 861-865 GARRAD COUNTY RECRUITING & RAISING CO. 7th Rgt Ky Militia

Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky Robert Colier (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and capt & maj 7th KY Cav USA) N00004197 1820? Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Farmer in Garrard County in 1850. Farmer in Garrard County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from August 4, 1862, to May 29, 1863, and a major from May 29, 1863, to 1865.

Relationships Military: Garrard County Home Guard Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Division 1, p. 226A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, p. 89. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 198-99. Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) N00004745 1824-04-17 1862-12-11 Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nelson Burdett and America Letcher Samuel Burdett. Married to Edna W. Letcher Burdett in Garrard County on February 26, 1846. Father of William Burdett. Attorney in Garrard County in 1850. Attorney in Lancaster in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lancaster, Kentucky, in 1860. Killed by James H. Smith in Garrard County on December 11, 1862.

Relationships Military: Garrard County Home Guard Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Robert Colier (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and capt & maj 7th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 2, p. 288B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard, Lancaster, p. 643. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 15A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), , pp. 216-7.. "Joshua Burdett (1824-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 90653933, accessed September 14, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90653933. KYR-0001-005-0025. [Unknown] Robinson (Captain maybe connected with Garrard County, KY, maybe CSA?) N00013718 Categories: People

Unknown captain mentioned in a note on letter written to the Kentucky Military Board from Joshua Burdett in Garrard County, Kentucky, on July 4, 1861.

KYR-0002-079-0017. Lancaster, Kentucky P001842 Categories: Places

Seat of Garrard County, Kentucky.

37.6195, -84.578 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 165. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Lancaster, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 23, 2020). 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). Buckeye, Kentucky P00013763 Categories: Places

Village in Garrard County, Kentucky.

37.7156, -84.5055 Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection: Kentucky Place Names, “Garrard County Place Names,” Morehead State University, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennickmscollection/ (accessed November 23, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Buckeye, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 23, 2020). 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). 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). Military Board of Kentucky O00006066 1861-05-24 1862-08-28 Categories: Organizations

Agency of the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky responsible for state military affairs from May 1861 to August 1862. The board existed in three different iterations and with different members. Member(s) from May 24, 1861, to September 25, 1861: Beriah Magoffin (President), Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, Peter Dudley, and John B. Peyton. Phillip Swigert was secretary in June 1861. Member(s) from September 25, 1861, to March 15, 1862: John B. Temple (President), Peter Dudley, Samuel Gill, George T. Wood, and E. H. Taylor. Member(s) from March 15, 1862, to August 28, 1862: John B. Temple and George T. Wood.

Relationships Military: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard Military: Thomas Noble Lindsey (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and paymaster general) Military: William Benton Nevitt (Larue County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: Ebenezer C. Guest (Butler County, Kentucky, merchant and postmaster) Military: John Harrison Brown (Allen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: William E. Williams (Cumberland County, Kentucky, machinist and miller) Military: John T. Rogers (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John P. Monroe (Monroe County, Kentucky, miller and merchant) Military: John W. Walker (Simpson County, Kentucky, solider (U.S.A.)) Military: James W. Tandy (Carroll County, Kentucky, Farmer) Military: George W. Sanders (Gallatin County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: James H. Smith (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Joseph H. Glover (Barren County, Kentucky, millwright) Military: Benjamin F. Wash (Anderson County, Kentucky, teacher, pvt 54th KY Inf USA) Military: Daniel W. Lovell (Laurel County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: John T. Sanders (Wayne County, Kentucky, banker. ) Military: Cornelius F. Campbell (Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Thomas W. Price (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Military: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Military: John L. Davidson (Todd County, Kentucky, contractor) Military: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Military: John Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer) Military: John Jefferson Wylie (Caldwell County, Kentucky, saddler) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Robert Cochran (Spencer County, KY, farmer, surveyor, state Rep) Military: John Tecumseh Milam (Franklin Co, Ky, merchant and pvt 22nd KY Inf USA) Military: Squire Lucas (Grant County, KY, merchant, postmaster, andsheriff) Military: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. "An Act for the regulation of the militia and to provide for the arming of the State," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 4-6. "An Act to dispense with the Military Board," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort, Ky.: John B. Major, Public Printer, 1862), 260. KYR-0002-022-0104. 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. Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky 1861-07-04 Correspondence 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 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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LancasterKy July 4th 1861. Gentlemen,

Capt Robert Collier of the Buckeye Precinct in our County desires arms for a cavalry ^company^ There is no company in Capt Colliers district armed.

They have companies armed in the Bryantsville^& Lancaster^ districts & I learn that companies for each of said districts intend applying for arms.

I think according to the spirit of the law passed last winter Capt Colliers company should be preferred to either of the other companies.

Capt Collier will make affidavit to the foregoing facts if necessary.

Your Respectfully J Burdett

To Ky Military Board.

Capt. Robinson (Secession)

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Capt R. Collier Home Guard Garrard Filed 8th July 1861.