<title type="main">Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky 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. Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA)) N00008573 1818-06-23 1871-01-20 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Mercer County native. Married to Mary Burns. Father of William W. Burns, James H. Burns, Robert B. Burns, Mary C. Burns, Sirena A. Burns, Phoeba C. Burns, Josephine B. Burns, Elizabeth Burns, and Anna E. Burns. Farmer in Mercer County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A) as a captain from August 22, 1862, to September 11, 1863.

Relationships Military: 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 301A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 891. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 552. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 243. “Harvey Jackson Burns (1818-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial # 38305053, accessed April 22, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38305053. 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. James Lawson (Mercer County, KY, captain, Hall's Gap Battalion) N00008874 1845? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Lawson and Mary A. Lawson. Resident of Mercer County in 1850. Student in Mercer County in 1860. Served in the Mercer County State Guard as captain from December 7, 1864, until April 2, 1865. Reported as deserted on April 2, 1865.

Relationships Military: Mercer County State Guard Military: Harvey Jackson Burns (Mercer County, KY, farmer and captain 9th KY Cav (USA))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 360B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 582. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 797. John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) N00003203 1809-02-01 1882-02-09 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant. Shelbyville, Kentucky, native. Married to Sophia Bledsoe Taylor Cardwell in March 1830. Father of John T. Cardwell, Telulia Cardwell, James M. Cardwell, Susan L. Cardwell, Thomas M. Cardwell, Samuel Creed Cardwell, Wesley K. Cardwell, Nannie Cardwell, and Llewellyn Davis Cardwell. Apprentice in a printing house. Trustee for the Harrodsburg Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1842. Notary Public in Mercer County in 1847. Co-founder of Monadelphian Society of Industrial Education in 1849. Dry goods clerk in 1850. Partner and, later, full owner of Capt. Bull’s Corner dry goods business. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Cashier of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1860 and 1863. Served in the Mercer County Home Guard as captain in June 1861. Provost marshal in Mercer County.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Military: [Unknown] Currey (Mercer County, KY, lieut likely in Mercer County Home Guard) Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Military: Mercer County Home Guard Economic: Harrodsburg Savings Institution Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 271B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 837. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, pp. 685-86. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 581A. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1842), 174. Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., _ The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847_ (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 133. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1848 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1849), 409-10. Thomas W. Westerfield, ed., Kentucky Genealogy and Biography: Sketches from Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties, vol. 5 (Owensboro, Ky.: Genealogical Reference Company, 1975), 74. Reprint of W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 4th ed. "John Wesley Cardwell (1809-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100176979, accessed April 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100176979. KYR-0002-022-0123. Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) N00002525 1835-01-01 1894-12-19 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Adair County native. Son of Nathaniel Gaither and Martha Morrison Gaither. Married to Susan Shelby Magoffin Gaither on September 25, 1861. Resident of Adair County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Adair County in 1850. Admitted to the bar in Adair County. School commissioner and county attorney. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from October 2, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private.

Relationships Legal: Robert H. Thompson (Bourbon County) Political: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Social: John Baylor Temple (Frankfort, Kentucky, banker and attorney; Preident of the Military Board of Kentucky) Social: Philip Swigert (Frankfort banker, Military Board member & secretary) Social: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Social: Milton A. Cartwright (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Caldwell County, Kentucky Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: Franklin County Court Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Legal: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Legal: Thomas Barclay Harrison (Logan County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Joshua Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph S. Burdett (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer, newspaper editor, and notary public) Political: Luther R. Martin (Indianapolis, Indiana, clerk and real estate agent.) Political: William Y. Wiley (Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, real estate agent, broker, life insurance salesman, commissioner of deeds, and soldier) Political: Henry Martin (Providence County, Rhode Island, justice of the peace, notary public, and commissioner of deeds) Political: James E. Stone, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, minister and court clerk.) Political: William R. Mason (Judge of the Hancock County, KY, Court) Political: Timothy Holmes (Hancock County, KY, physician & home guard soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 31A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, District 1, p. 171. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair, Columbia, p. 90. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 32. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 5th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1885), 862. Michael C. Watson, "An Adair County History," vol. 1 (2001), 71, 83, 221, 226. Harrodsburg, Kentucky P00000555 Categories: Places

Seat of Mercer County, Kentucky.

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Mercer County State Guard O00008872 1864-12-07 1865-05-12 Categories: Organizations

State militia organization from Mercer County, Kentucky. Organized at Harrodsburg and assigned to serve with Hall’s Gap Battalion from December 7, 1864, to May 12, 1865. Commander(s): James Lawson.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 797-826. Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky O00000388 1793 Categories: Organizations

The office of the chief military officer and advisor to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Resides in the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era Adjutant Generals: Scott Brown (1859-1861); John W. Finnell (1861-1863); John Boyle (1863-1864); Daniel W. Lindsey (1864-1867).

Relationships Military: Hall's Gap Battalion Political: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) 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: Alderson T. Keen (Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Silas Adams (Union Lt. Col, kentucky attorney.) Military: Francis M. Helveti (1st ky cavalry and professor) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Albert G. Huffman (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George H. Norton (Private and hospital steward in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry ) Military: Granville Jasper Vaught (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: John Brent Fishback (Louisville/Garrard/Pulaski /1st KY Cav) Military: Josiah "Joe" D. Beatie (Pulaski Co, KY, corp, 2d Lieut, & Capt1st ky cav USA) Military: Thomas J. Graves (Russell County, KY, 1st sgt & 1st Lieut 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: James L. Pankey (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Tilford N. Bruner (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Phillip Roberts (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: George Watkins Drye (Casey County, KY, Major in 1st Ky Cavalry) Military: Thomas Rowland (Cumberland Co, Ky; sgt, lieut, maj in 1st Ky Cav USA) Military: William D. Carpenter (1st Ky Cavalry regiment) Military: Alexander C. Smith (Pvt-1st lieut - 1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: S. J. Layman (Assistant surgeon for 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Robert Armstrong Athey (Kenton County, lawyer, asst. adjutant general for KY vols (U.S.A.)) Military: Joel H. Roach (Corporal, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Robert L. Wilson (Crittenden County, KY, farmer) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Kentucky State Militia Military: William Pope Anderson (Cincy OH, assistant Adj General to General Ambrose Burnside) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Political: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Julius Fosses (Louisville, Kentucky, aide-de-camp, asst inspector general of cavalry, and Bvt Maj. of Vols. (U.S.A.)) Military: Alexander Wake Holeman (Owen County, Kentucky, machinist, hotelkeeper, and Maj OH River Batt KSG; capt, maj, lt col in 12th KY Cav, Col. 11th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Milton J. Graham (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. 4th Inf and 11th Cav (U.S.A.)) Military: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

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Harrodsburg Ky Feby 223 -- 65 -- My dear Gov-

Our hands at suppressing guerillas are becoming to be great nuisances and almost every one is in dread of them -- They drink shoot & kill whenever they please -- The Chief refuses to recognize the authority of the Provost Marshall and says they have as much right to drink & carouse as citizens,

Burns' course is approved by all, and unless he has power over Lawsons men, we had as well be without troops

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What we want is this Go to Lindsey and make him issue an order to Lawson to obey all commands given by the Provost Marshall and in reference to the police regulations of the Town -- and above all things make him keep his men from whiskey shops & from indiscriminate firing around Town --

See to this immediately as we shall certainly look for ordersbyreturnmail -- Of course you can see the propriety of Keeping this private

I write this at Capt Burns request and am satisfied something must be done or we are worse than

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than if we were at the mercy of guerillas

All well at home & at your house --

I read your letter to Cardwell last night --

I write hastily to get this in the mail

Truly Yours Nat Gaither

N, B, Dont fail to have this attended to at once

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Harrodsburg Ky Feby. 22d 1865

Gaither Nat.

To The Gov.

See Genl Lindsey & have an order issued to stop Lawsons men from drinking whiskey, & shooting guns in town. Also to obey all commands given him by Pro. Mar. in reference to police regulations of the town.

see Special Orders No 15 -- 1865

Recd A. G. O. Ky 24 Feby 1865