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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Adjutant General Letter Book - No. 10 ; 10 Feb - 16 March 1865 KYR-0002-161-0026 176

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) N00002582 1825-11-03 1888-06-21 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Anne Eliza Elliott Pennebaker in Nelson County, Kentucky, on November 8, 1851. Father of Charles Pennebaker, Lulie Pennebaker, and John Pennebaker. Attorney in Nelson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from March 21, 1862 to April 10, 1864. Kentucky state military agent in Washington, D.C., from 1864 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Economic: United States Department of the Treasury Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 278B Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 339. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 290A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 68. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 001929414. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 232. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 181. James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) N00003045 1827-02-22 1894-07-11 Categories: People

Illinois soldier. Carrollton, Illinois, native. Married to Caroline Fry. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847. Served garrison duty during the U.S.-Mexican War. Adjutant of the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1854 to 1859. Chief of staff for General Irvin McDowell and General Don Carlos Buell. Provost marshal general of the United States from November 1862 to August 1866. Brevet major general of the United States Army.

Relationships Military: United States War Department Military: George David Ruggles (Missouri US Army lieut, chief of staff and adjutant general ) Military: Provost Marshal General's Office Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) )

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 162-63. "James Barnet Fry" in Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 2, p. 557. 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). 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. Warren County, Kentucky P001020 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Bowling Green. Located on the Barren River.

36.9903, -86.4436 “Warren County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 932-33. "Bowling Green, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1865-02-23 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Papers of the Warren Co Committee in regard to a correction of their quota referred to Col C. D Pennebaker state agent at Washington DC Feby 23d 1865

State of Kentucky Executive Department Frankfort Ky Febry 23d 1865

Respectfully referred to Col C. D. Pennebaker State Agent, who will at once submit these -- papers to Brig General James B Fry. Pro Mars Genl U S. and request that an order be issued changing the quota assigned Warren CoKy, in accordance with the within statements.

Tho E Bramlette Governor of Ky