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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Guerilla Letters KYR-0002-225-0023 Document Box 1, Folder G. L. 1862

Waynesburg, Lincoln County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. W. F. Camden (Waynesburg, Kentucky, miller) N00008534 1810? Categories: People

Waynesburg, Lincoln County, Kentucky, miller. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret Camden. Father of N. P. Camden, Ann Camden, William Camden, D. R. Camden, Philadelphia Camden, John J. Camden, and James Polk Camden. Miller in Lincoln County in 1850. Resident of Lincoln County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 1, p. 265A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 157. Waynesburg, Kentucky P00008533 Categories: Places

Town in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

37.3329, -84.6716 Allen R. Leach, "Lincoln County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 557. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Waynesburg, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 24, 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). Lincoln County, Kentucky P00005395 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Stanford, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Lincoln County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 557-58. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Waynesburg, Lincoln County, Kentucky 1862-11-13 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 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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Waynesburg nov 13th 1862 To the Military Govner of the state of Ky Dear Sir

I want the permushion from you to make up a company of 60 men in the county of Lincoln and state of Kintucky my object is, to put down theeving tha are braeking in to stores, in this, place and Kneghbours, Houses, and stailing negroes, and in fact all Kind of depedatians, now i prpose to have these men Augurinesed and we dont want to takx the Goverment with Horses wit We will ride our on when Nessesary but we would properly want Some guns and ammunition and i would Like for your Honor to in struct me what to do and how to manage the cause if you permit me to Rais said company if i rais said company if it will be of old men. and buoys and i can get them in 24 Hours please to me a mediately Respectfully your obidiant survant

W. F Camden

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Waynesburg Ky, Nov. 13/62

Camden. W. F.

Authority to rais troop to protect his region.

Military W F Camden

Leave asked to raise men in Lincoln

W. F. Camden