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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society Edmund A. Starling Collection KYR-0003-072-0002

Hopkinsville, Christian 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. Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) N00010911 1827? 1880-06-14 Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, soldier (U.S.A.). Kentucky native. Served in the 35th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as colonel from October 2, 1863 to December 29, 1864.

Relationships Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: United States Army

Find A Grave, "Edmund Alexander Starling (November 22, 1826- June 14, 1880)," Memorial #89740062, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89740062 (accessed July 23, 2019). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 352. KYR-0003-072-0001. Theodore Weir Wing (Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, lieutenant adjutant (U.S.A.)) N00010912 1845-11-08 1867-09-26 Categories: People

Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky, soldier (U.S.A.). Kentucky native. Son of Samuel M. Wing and Emily M. Wing. Resident in Owensboro in 1850. Resident in Daviess County in 1860. Served in the 35th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as lieutenant adjutant from October 2, 1863, to December 29, 1864.

Relationships Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: United States Army

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, p. 346B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 686. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 352. Find A Grave, "Theodore Weir Wing (November 8, 1845- September 26, 1867)," Memorial #64602917, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64602917 (accessed July 23, 2019). Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0416. KYR-0003-072-0002. United States of America P001802 Categories: Places

Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

38.8951, -77.0364 Karl Patterson Schmidt et al., "United States" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States) (accessed May 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, District of Columbia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 29, 2020). Hopkinsville, Kentucky P00002431 Categories: Places

Seat of Christian County, Kentucky.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Hopkinsville," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 440-41. 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). Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky 1864-01-11 Order English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Head Quarters U. S. Forces Hopkinsville Jany 11. 1864

His Excellency, the Governor of the State of Kentucky, by his Adjt Genl, having issued an order for the enrollment of the state Militia, under the amended act, known as the state Guard Law, approved August 31. 18612, no one who has read the order, or thought of the present condition of our state, can help seeing and knowing the absolute and urgent necessity, that. this order be acted upon, and enforced immediately No matter what may be our political bias, or our opinion of the present War, its objects or consequences, all, who, are now living under the. protecting AEgis of this Commonwealth, feel the necessity of protection against the roving Bands of Marauders, who, now infest the state, This call is for men to organize to protect their Homes and property It has been seen, that, without organization there is no protection, A dozen armed men, can go among a thousand, and steel and plunder without opposition those who will not take up arms, for this purpose, must be made to do so, for the good of the community

Therefore, from and after the day of 1864 an order to obtain a pass through the lines of this command, it will be required of all who are subject to do duty under this act, in the Enrolled Militia of the state, between the ages of Eighteen (18) and

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forty five (45) shall have a certificate from the Captain of his company that he is an enrolled member of said company; and has complied with all the requirements of this Law.

The Colonel commanding would request all to give notice at his Head. Quarters of any who, should be, and are not, enrolled

By order of Edmund A. Starling Col Comdg

Theodore W. Wing 1st Lieut & Adj.t