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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Guerilla Letters KYR-0002-225-0026 Document Box 1, Folder G. L. 1863

Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory 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. Charles J. Walker (Richmond, Kentucky, soldier and attorney) N00008496 1835 1879-03-04 Categories: People

Richmond, Kentucky, soldier and attorney. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of William J. Walker and Sarah Walker. Cadet at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, from 1853 to 1857. Served in the U. S. Dragoons as second lieutenant and first lieutenant from July 1, 1857, to August 3, 1861. Served in the 2nd U. S. Cavalry as first lieutenant and captain from August 3, 1861, to December 1862. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 12, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Served in the 23rd Army Corps as chief of cavalry from April to September 1863. Served in Dismounted Camp in Washington, D. C. as commissary of musters from September 1863 to January 13, 1864. Assistant in the Cavalry Bureau in Washington, D. C. from January 13 to April 25, 1864. Served in the 23rd Army Corps as commissary of musters from April 25 to July 1, 1864. Served in the Department of the Gulf as special inspector of cavalry from July 1, 1864, to July 25, 1865. Attorney in Richmond in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Richmond, p. 251A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Richmond, p. 256A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 250. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 104 (Accessed via Fold3.com). United States Adjutant General’s Office, _ Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65, vol. 4, (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1231. _Find A Grave, "Charles J Walker (1835-1879)," Memorial #39257702, http://www.findagrave.com/39257702 (accessed April 5, 2018). George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, Third Edition, Vol. II (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), 685. Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth president of the United States.) N001760 1809-02-12 1865-04-15 Categories: People

Sixteenth president of the United States. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Married to Mary Ann Todd Lincoln on November 4, 1842. Father of Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln. Served in the Illinois Militia as a private and captain during the Black Hawk War in 1832. Postmaster and county surveyor of New Salem, Illinois. Practiced law with John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, and William Herndon in Illinois. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Illinois from Sangamon County, Illinois, from 1834 to 1842. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th District of the State of Illinois from 1847 to 1849. Unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois in 1858. Member of the Republican Party. Member of the National Union Party. President of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Assassinated on April 14, 1865.

Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Ronald C. White, Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, Inc., 2009). John Courts McFerran (Glasgow, KY, U.S. Army officer) N00008495 1831 1872-04-25 Categories: People

Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky, U.S. Army officer. Kentucky native. Son of William R. McFerran. Married to Rose H. McFerran. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1843. Brevetted to second lieutenant of the 3rd U.S. Infantry on July 1, 1843. Second lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Infantry from April 1846 to June 1846. Transferred to 3rd U.S. Infantry on June 27, 1846. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Regimental quartermaster of the 3rd U.S. Infantry from May 1852 to October 1855. First lieutenant of the 3rd U.S. Infantry from October 1847 to December 1856. Captain and assistant quartermaster in the U.S. Quartermaster Department from August 1855 to November 1863. Major in the U.S. Quartermaster Department from November 1863 to August 1864. Colonel in the U.S. Quartermaster Department from August 1864 to June 1865. Chief quartermaster of the Department of New Mexico from September 1862 to July 1865. Chief of staff to General James H. Carleton from 1864 to 1865. Brevetted to brigadier general in 1865.

Relationships Social: Charles J. Walker (Richmond, Kentucky, soldier and attorney)

“A Kentucky Soldier: Death of General,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 26, 1872, 4. “A Soldier's Funeral: Obsequies of Brig. Gen. McFerran,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 29, 1872, 4. Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933, NARA Microfilm Publication, M850, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007, Record group 15, Roll 1439 (Accessed via Ancestry.com). Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1903), 665. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1888), 115. United States War Dept., The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, vol. 48, pt. 2, (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1897), 203, 1089-90, 1245. Santa Fe, New Mexico P00005650 Categories: Places

Capital of New Mexico. Seat of Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

35.687, -105.9378 "Santa Fe" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Santa-Fe-New-Mexico) (accessed May 11, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Santa Fe, New Mexico," 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). 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. 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00000866 1862-09-09 1863-09-17 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Maysville, Kentucky. Mustered in on September 9, 1862, and mustered out on September 17, 1863. Part of the Army of the Ohio. Commander(s): Joshua Tevis and Charles J. Walker.

Relationships Military: Andrew J. Farrow (Lewis County, KY, farmer and 1st lieut 10th Cav USA) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 271. Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky O00000920 1793 Categories: Organizations

The office of the military officer in charge of “the better organization of the Militia, and the collection and preservation of the public arms and other property” and to “convene a court of inquiry to examine into the qualifications of persons holding any office in the Active Militia, or in the Active Reserves; and in the Enrolled Militia when in the service of the State.” Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era inspectors general: Simon Bolivar Buckner (1860-1861); unoccupied (1861-1863); Daniel W. Lindsey (1863-1865); William H. Hays (1865); and James T. Bramlette (1865-1866).

Relationships Political: John Mason Brown (Frankfort, Ky, attorney & major 10th KY Cav USA, asst inspector genl, colonel of 45th Mtd Inf USA) Military: Burgess M. Preston (Johnson County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas J. Walker (Lewis County, KY, saddler and farmer) Military: Amos J. Means (Maysville, KY, blacksmith) Military: William H. Faris (Christian County, KY, pvt, corp, QM sgt 3rd Ky Cav USA) Military: William T. King (Muhlenberg County, Ky, tinner and sgt, lieut 17th Ky Inf USA) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Military: Thomas E. Henderson (Trigg County, KY, farmer) Military: Joseph H. Garrett (Caldwell County) Military: Rodolphus B. Ratliff (Caldwell County, KY, gunsmith, farmer, and sheriff) Military: A. Reynolds (Caldwell County, KY, hotel keeper) Military: Collins D. Bradley (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit judge, and commonwealth's attorney.) Military: John Newt Turner (Caldwell County, KY, merchant and county judge) Military: Edward P. Campbell (Caldwell County, Ky, 1865 Hopkinsville, Ky, attorney Comwlth Atty in late 1860) Military: William P. Ballard (Madison County resident and Union soldier) Military: H. H. Johnson (Lexington Captain) Military: Stephen Nethercutt (Carter County farmhand and soldier) Military: James Johnson (Breathitt County farmhand and soldier) Military: Bennett Spear, Jr. (Monroe County farmer, soldier (U.S.A.)) Military: William H. McDonald (Ballard County master tailor and soldier) Military: Samuel G. Rogers (Nicholas County constable, farmer, soldier) Military: Daniel Campbell (Perry County laborer ) Military: Greenberry Reid (Bourbon County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: Ward Boyd (McCracken County, Kentucky, attorney) Military: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY)

“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), 28-33. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky O00000923 1792 Categories: Organizations

Legislative branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Comprised of the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate.

Relationships Political: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Political: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Political: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Political: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Political: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Political: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Political: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Political: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Political: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Political: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Political: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Political: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Political: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Political: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Political: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Political: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Political: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Political: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Political: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Political: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Political: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Political: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Political: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Political: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Political: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Political: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Political: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Political: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Political: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Kentucky Home Guard Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Kentucky State Militia Political: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Leonidas Polk (Louisiana, bishop and general (C.S.A.)) Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Political: T. & J. F. Jefferson Political: Martin A. Walker (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Charles Gaupin (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: William H. Landrum (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John Cullen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Francis Linnemann (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Joseph Francis Terstegge (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John Rausch Gheens (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Peter Klippel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer and flour dealer) Political: Samuel Harris (Jefferson County, KY, peddler and flour dealer) Political: Frank Struck (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Elias T. Oberdorfer (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: John T. Doyle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: James Collings (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: Alexander F. Clark (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale & retail grocer & flour dealer) Political: Christopher Abel (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer & grocer) Political: Philip Winkler (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Joseph Martin (Jefferson County, KY, wholesale grocer & flour dealer) Political: William Gathright (Jefferson County, KY, merchant and flour dealer) Political: John R. Knott (Jefferson County, KY, clerk and flour dealer) Political: John J. Ellis (Jefferson County, KY, grocer & flour dealer) Political: Michael Enright (Jefferson County, KY, retail grocer & flour dealer) Political: Martin Breen (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: George Hill (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: John Snyder & Co. Political: John Gaffenberger (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Thomas McGrain, Jr. (Jefferson Co, KY, & Harrison Co, IN, clerk, flour dealer & merchant) Political: Paul Wilhelm Carle (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & grocer) Political: James Kennedy (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer) Political: Stege & Reiling Political: Montgomery & Bro. Political: E. T. Sale & Co. Political: Marshall Halbert & Co. Political: Castleman, Murrell & Co. Political: Lane & Bartlett Wholesale Grocers Political: Albert Engelhard (Jefferson County, KY, flour dealer & wholesale grocer) Political: Nock, Wicks & Co. Political: Jack & Brother Wholesale Grocers Political: G. McCullum & Co. Political: Tait, Anderson & Co. Political: Baldwin Sanderson & Co. Political: Sage Bower & Co. Political: Billing & Dreisbach Political: Smith & Smyser Political: John B. McIlvain & Son Political: John Cochran & Son Political: J. Vernon & Son Political: N. S. Glore & Co. Political: Schuler & Hutti Political: J. S. Byers & Co. Political: John C. Ameling & Co. Political: Guy & Clark Manufacturer Political: C. Bremaker & Co. Political: H. Wedekind & Co. Political: Brown & Co. Political: Brown, Bro. & Co. Political: Kennedy Mills Political: Glazebrook Brothers & Co. Political: Weller & Parker Political: John Terry & Co. Political: William Garrard Timberlake (Jefferson Co, KY, flour inspector) Political: Joab Clark (Christian Co, KY, Clerk of Circuit Court) Political: William Brown (Christian County, Kentucky, schoolteacher, farmer, and justice of the peace)

Robert M. Ireland, The Kentucky State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999). “Kentucky General Assembly.” Constitution of Kentucky, Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, 2019, apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/constitution (Accessed July 23, 2019). Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico Territory 1863-02-22 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Santa Fe N M February 22d 1863. To His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky. Sir.

From a letter just arrived from my friend Col C J. Walker 10th Ky Cavalry, I make the following extract. viz. ,,"When I was in Frankfort, several weeks ago, the Governor told me that he would make you Inspector Genl of the state if you would accept it",, With many thanks to your Excellency, for your kindess I will accept the position, with- pleasure if offered to me. It is, however, due to you to say, that since the issue of the Presidents Emancipation Proclimation, I cannot retain my present position, and thus, give countenance to what I in conscience condemn. I endorse every word of your Excellencies message to the Legislatrue on that subject

Please address me at this place...

Very Respectfully your obt svt John C. McFerran Captain & A Q M

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Santa Fe. Feby 22nd/63.

McFerran Jno. C. Capt and A. Q. M.

To Gov. Will accept position of Inspector Gen. Ky. if offered him.