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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Guerilla Letters KYR-0002-225-0003 Document Box 1, Folder G. L. 1861

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) N00003389 1824-01-30 1876-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and soldier. Kentucky native. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1844. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Assistant engineer of Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Assistant engineer of Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Superintendent of the Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1850 to 1872. Superintendent of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1855 to 1872. Commissioner of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24, 1861, to March 15, 1862.

Relationships Political: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John R. Pirtle (Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 4th Ward, p. 47. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), vii. The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, vol. II, (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904), 248, 409. Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, (Covington, Ky: Collins & Co., 1882), 90-91. "Appendix," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society vol. 9, no. 26 (1911): 33. George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), 193. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008972700 John R. Pirtle (Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier) N00008508 1833-02-15 1896-02-24 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elmira K. Schwing Pirtle on March 10, 1852. Father of Laura and Alice Pirtle. Physician in Louisville in 1860. Surgeon in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) until December 19th, 1862.

Relationships Military: Kentucky State Guard Political: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 131. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007129, Louisville Deaths, p. 127. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994040, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 3. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 942. Find A Grave, "John Rowan Pirtle (February 15, 1833-February 24, 1896)," Memorial #69115742, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69115742 (accessed April 30, 2018). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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). Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). 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. Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

The volunteer and active militia from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Existed from 1860 to 1865. Commander(s): Simon Bolivar Buckner, John W. Finnell, Daniel W. Lindsey.

Relationships Military: 38th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Greenfield M. Witten (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman) Military: Alexander G. Hamilton (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Robert S. Friend (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Edwin Trimble (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Alexander L. Martin (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Military: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Military: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Military: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Francis M. Vaughn (Kentucky soldier) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: James A. Stamper (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: [unknown] Drerren (Soldier, 71st Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Military: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Military: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Military: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Military: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“An Act for the Better Organization of the Kentucky Militia,” Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol 1 (Frankfort: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) O00008593 1861-07-17 1865-05-06 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Boone, Tennessee. Mustered in on July 17, 1861 and mustered out on May 6, 1865. Commander(s): Col. J. M. Hawes, Col. Roger W. Hanson, Col. Robert A. Johnson, Col. Philip Lightfoot Lee, Col. James W. Moss, Lt. Col. James W. Hewett, and Lt. Col. Hervey McDowell.

Relationships Military: John R. Pirtle (Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier) Military: Kentucky State Guard

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 36-85. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1861-07-30 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. 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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Private. Louisville July 30. 1861 Col S. Gill Dr Sir

Knowing that you are connected to the Military Board I have called to see you but find you absent.

I have command of a company in the State Guard of this city, Co G, 2nd Regt ("Buckner Grays").

My men have all except four or five refused to serve under me on acct of my Union principles and some have joined their companies. I have most of the arms in my own hands and would prefer to deliver them to the board of commissioners than to any of the subordinate officers of my company of whom indeed there is only one in Ky the other two being in Tennessee

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at Camp Boone, and the one here is an open secessionist and has been engaged in enlisting men for the army of the rebels.

I may not be able to recover all the arms but will send all I can get wherever directed by an order from the Board and will then cease to be a member of the state Guard.

You will comprehend why I write to you privately when you Know that some effort is making to get the arms out of my hands.

If the Board will call for my guns I will feel that I have save them from those who would use them illegally

Respectfully Jno, R, Pirtle Capt. Co G. 2nd Regt. Infty K. S. G,