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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Guerilla Letters KYR-0002-225-0045 Document Box 1, Folder G. L. 1864

Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana 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. [Unknown] Wilson (Kentucky soldier (U.S.A.) (Possibly Cyrus J. Wilson)) N00008631 Categories: People

Reported as a captain (U.S.A.) in 1864. Appears in a letter from Mason Hendrick to Thomas E. Bramlette dated July 13, 1864. Appears in a letter from James V. McKasson to Thomas E. Bramlette written from Gentryville, Indiana, on July 18, 1864.

KYR-0002-225-0045. KYR-0002-225-0046. James V. McKasson (Spencer County, Indiana, farmer and pvt 1st IN Cav USA) N00008586 1831 1895 Categories: People

Spencer County, Indiana, farmer and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Frederick McKasson and Margaret McKasson. Married to Mary E. Bell McKasson in Spencer County, Indiana, on July 26, 1856. Married to Maggie R. Heuring McKasson in Spencer County on September 12, 1864. Attended Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1852 and 1853. Farmer in Spencer County in 1850. Resident of Spencer County in 1860. Served in the 1st Indiana Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from July 4, 1861, to 1864.

Relationships Military: Department (Army) of the Potomac

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Spencer County, Jackson Township, p. 13A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Spencer County, Jackson Township, p. 370. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Spencer County, Jackson Township, p. 532A. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 4, 1861-1865, (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 642. _Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Indiana Asbury University for the Year 1852-53 (Indianapolis: Indiana State Journal Steam Press, 1853), 15. Spencer County Marriage Records, Vol. 5., Oct. 1863-Sep. 1868, p. 89. Spencer County Marriage Records, Vol. 4., Dec. 1855-Oct. 1863, p. 49. Find A Grave, “James V. McKasson (1831-1895)," Memorial #15547094, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15547094 (accessed April 27, 2018). Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) N00000873 1835-10-04 1917-08-04 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Son of Thomas N. Lindsey. Married to Catherine McIlavain Fitch Lindsey. Father of Antoinette Dumesnill Lindsey, Thomas Noble Lindsey, Jr., Henry Fitch Lindsey, Daniel Weisiger Lindsey, Jr, and Catherine F. Lindsey. Educated by B. B. Sayre in Frankfort, Kentucky. Graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute in 1854. Attorney with Thomas N. Lindsey in Frankfort. Graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1857. Member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Masonic Lodge in Frankfort. Captain in the Kentucky State Guard in 1861. Appointed as chief of staff to General Thomas L. Crittenden in September 1861. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a Colonel from 1861 to 1863. Inspector general of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Adjutant general of Kentucky from August 1, 1864 to 1867.

Relationships Military: Charles Hayden (Frankfort, Kentucky, clerk and soldier) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Legal: William Wilcox (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Austin P. Smith (Hopkins County, Kentucky, soldier) Legal: Ervin Ray (Private in the 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry) Legal: Military District of Kentucky Military: James Lawson (Mercer County, KY, captain, Hall's Gap Battalion) Military: Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Emory B. Harlan (Ohio, lieut & assist adj general of Second Division, 49th Illinois Inf) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: James Reynolds (1st lieutenant, 10th Kentucky Infantry (Co. A)) Military: George B. Baum (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Military: Daniel W. Suddarth (Assistant surgeon, Capital Guard Regiment) Political: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: John L. Lamb (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Douglas Jones (Union County, laborer and soldier) Military: Charles W. Quiggins (Hardin County, KY, carpenter and soldier) Military: Houston L. Keesee (Union County, farmer and soldier) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Henry E. Reynolds (private in 2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: Capital Guard Regiment Military: Albert Bayless (Kentucky, soldier) Military: Kentucky State Militia Familial: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Jesse J. Craddock (Hart County, KY, farmer and lieutenant colonel) Military: William J. Aulsebrook (Louisville, Kentucky, painter and private Frankfort Battal Cap Guard (U.S.A.)) Military: George Trulove (Trimble County, Kentucky, resident and private (U.S.A.)) Military: Arthur J. Harrington (Jefferson County, KY, printer and soldier) Economic: Kentucky State Militia Economic: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: H. C. Burriss (Kentucky) Military: [Unknown] Thomas (Colonel incarcerated in Louisville Military Prison, ) Military: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 57th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Columbus B. Saunders (Nicholasville, Kentucky, resident and lieutenant colonel) Military: James C. Guess (Fredonia, Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier) Political: United States War Department Political: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician ) Military: United States War Department Military: 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Political: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Legal: William Hercules Hays (Colonel of 10th KY Infantry, Inspector Gen'l of KY) Political: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Military: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Political: Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA) Political: James W. Wilkins (Hopkins County, Kentucky, merchant) Political: John H. Frost (Hopkins County, KY, farmer and pvt of 25th, corp thru capt 17th KY Infantry USA) Military: Department of the Cumberland Political: Oliver Otis Howard (Major General (U.S. Army) and Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) Political: Clinton Bowen Fisk (St. Louis, Missouri, Brevet Major General (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) Political: John Brennan (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk; capt & maj 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA) Political: John J. Hawes (Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, attorney, judge advocate + capt. 1st Ky Lt.Art.) Political: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Political: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA) Military: Frederick Slater, Jr. (Dearborn County, Indiana, merchant and soldier - major, 11th Ky. Cav) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Department of the Gulf Military: 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Charles H. Edwards (Kentucky soldier - 11th Kentucky Cavalry) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Thomas W. Hewitt (Frankfort, Kentucky, medical student and surgeon (U.S.A.). ) Military: Solomon B. Bennett (Wayne County, Tennessee, farm laborer and soldier) Military: Howard Warren (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.) Military: Tennis W. Wade (Covington, Kentucky, painter apprentice and soldier. ) Military: Harrison Franklin Davis (Mercer County, Kentucky, farm hand and soldier (U.S.A.) ) Military: William H. Ritchey (Owen County, KY, trader and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: John J. Curtis (Mason County, Kentucky, soldier - 1st. Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Sabritt Scruggs (Washington County, Kentucky, soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: James F. Peyton (Lincoln County, Kentucky, physician and soldier - Surgeon 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Benjamin F. Lewis (Hancock County, Kentucky, soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Joseph M. Willemin (Covington, Kentucky, tailor and soldier) Military: Harry Gee (Louisville, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Abraham W. Stone (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Solomon Huffman (Dearborn County, IN, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky Cav) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: Joseph Lawson (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District, No 1, p. 237. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 162A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 468. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 126-28. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. “Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (1835-1917),” Find A Grave, Memorial 13775691, accessed February 7, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13775691. Gentryville, Indiana P00008589 Categories: Places

Town in Spencer County, Indiana.

38.1042, -87.0331 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 59. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Gentryville, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 24, 2019). Daviess County, Kentucky P001811 Categories: Places

County in northwestern Kentucky. Seat at Owensboro. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7742, -87.1133 Lee A. Dew, "Daviess County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 254-55. “Owensboro, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 23, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ohio County, Kentucky P00002417 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hartford. Located on the Green River.

Relationships Legal: John Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Alonzo L. Morton (Ohio Circuit Ct. Clerk) Legal: Virgil Porter Addington (Ohio County, Kentucky, merchant and tailor.) Legal: Peter Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Thomas Moseley (Ohio County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: John Ford (Mentioned in an Ohio County, Kentucky, court document related to Moses Baer.)

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 24, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 218. Spencer County, Indiana P00008585 Categories: Places

County in Indiana. Seat at Rockport.

37.9833, -87.0224 Spencer County, Indiana, Government, http://spencercounty.in.gov (accessed April 27, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Spencer County, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 24, 2019). Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Department (Army) of the Potomac O00000741 1861-08-17 1865-07-28 Categories: Organizations

The principal Union Army in the Eastern Theatre. Organized on August 17, 1861. Disbanded on June 28, 1865. Commander(s): George B. McClellan, Ambrose E. Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and John G. Parke.

Relationships Military: William S. King (Roxbury, Norfolk County, auctioneer and Captain (U.S.A))

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 1, The Eastern Theatre (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 79-82. 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. Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana 1864-07-18 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Gentryville Ind July 18/64 Gov Bramlet

Dear Sir discover since I came home from the Army of the Potomac that there is a large number of Guerillas on the border here and it is reported that they are doing considerable amount of damage and I have heard that you want to have the state cleared of them and also I am informed that one Capt Willson is in Davis or Ohio County and is troubling them that is the Geurillas Now the object of my writing to you is to know how you want men to operate on what terms time pay and so forth Some

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Now Sir as I have Served three years in the Cavalry I think I know something about the management of mounted men and scouting and so on.

I have thought sine I came back that if I could get a command or a commission to command a company I would go in for awhil and I think I can raise fifty or one hundred men in a few days there is several men here that has been compelled to leave your State that say that they would like to help put the Geurillas out of the way and would like to go in you will please answer this you will send to me in Gentryville Spencer County

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State of Indiana

I am verry respectfully yours James V McKasson

P, S, Referances of character and Qualifications can be given if required

J V McK

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State of Indiana Spencer co Gentryville July 18th 1864

McKasson, Jas. V.

writes to the Govr to Know on what terms, time, pay & c he wants men to serve agst Guerillas. wants a com,s,n. Can get 50 men, some of them refugees from Ky wants an answer immediately com'n'c'n refrd by Govr to Inspr Genl

Answered July 22- 1864 On Letter. Book Page 522.

Recd I. G. O. July 21st 1864