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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society Emilie Todd Helm Papers KYR-0003-119-0001 Box 1, Folder 2

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Benjamin Hardin Helm (Louisville, Ky, attorney, brigadier general (C.S.A)) N00010544 1831-06-02 1863-09-20 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier (C.S.A). Kentucky native. Son of John Larue Helm and Lucinda Barbour Hardin Helm. Married to Emily Todd Helm on March 26, 1856, in Franklin County. Father of Katherine Helm, Elodie Todd Helm, and Benjamin Hardin Helm. Attended Elizabethtown Seminary. Attended the Kentucky Military Institute near Frankfort. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1851. Served in the 2nd Regular United States Cavalry as brevet second lieutenant from 1851 to October 9, 1852. Graduate of the University of Louisville School of Law in 1853. Attended Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1853. Attorney in partnership with Martin H. Cofer and John Larue Helm in Elizabethtown from 1853 to 1856. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Commonwealth’s attorney for the third district from 1856 to 1858. Attorney in partnership with Martin D. Cofer from 1856 to 1858. Attorney in partnership with Horatio W. Bruce in Louisville from 1858 to 1861. Employed Briggett [Unknown] as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Appointed assistant inspector-general of the Kentucky State Guard in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from October 19, 1861, to August 5, 1862. Served in the 1st Kentucky Brigade of the Army of Tennessee as commander from January 31, 1863. Died at the Battle of Chickamauga in Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 20, 1863.

Relationships Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: Kentucky State Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Jefferson County, Kentucky p. 345. Find A Grave, "Benjamin Hardin Helm (June 2, 1831 to May 29, 1863," Memorial #8925, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8925 (accessed April 9, 2019). Kentucky Marriage Records, Franklin County Courthouse, Frankfort, Kentucky, Franklin County Marriages, Film #994027. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), U.S. Military and Naval Academies, Cadet Records and Applications, 1800-1908, Washington, D.C.; Series Number: M2037. Kentucky General Assembly, Kentucky Public Documents, vol. 2, “Auditor of Public Accounts, Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1857” (Frankfort, Kentucky: A.G. Hodges, Public Printer, 1857), 285 and 309. Edwin Porter Thompson, History of the First Kentucky Brigade (Cincinnati, Ohio: Caxton Publishing House, 1868), 338-345. _John L. Kleber ed., The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 421. _Spencer E. Tucker ed., American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2013), 898. Stephen Berry, _House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided By War(New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009). Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) N00002592 1823-04-01 1914-01-08 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Hart County, Kentucky, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1844. Assistant professor of geography, history and ethics at the United State Military Academy at West Point from 1845 to 1846. Lieutenant in General Worth’s Division during the Mexican-American War. Instructor of military tactics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Inspector General of Kentucky under Governor Beriah Magoffin. Commissioned a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Prisoner of war at Fort Warren in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 1862 to August 1862. Exchanged at Richmond, Virginia. Promoted to major general and commanded Hardee's Corps of Bragg's Army. Promoted to lieutenant general and served as chief of staff for General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Western Theater from September 1864 to April 1865.

Relationships Military: George Brinton McClellan (New York army general (U.S.A.)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Kentucky State Guard Military: Alexander C Casseday (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and soldier (CSA).) Military: Charles Flournoy Johnson (Louisville, Kentucky, commission merchant and aide de camp (CSA)) Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Familial: Mary Jane Kingsbury Buckner (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Military: Kentucky State Guard Political: Scott Brown (Franklin County, KY, Adjutant genl of KY, farmer) Social: Joseph H. Millett (Owensboro, Kentucky) Social: Thomas H. Winstead (Owensboro, Kentucky) Economic: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Economic: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Economic: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Military: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA) Military: Provisional Council Economic: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Provisional Council Military: Kentucky State Militia

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 654. Arndt M. Stickles, Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940) 4, 15, 17, 46, 256. Find A Grave, "Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. (1823-1914)," Memorial #5144, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5144/simon-bolivar-buckner (accessed January 8, 2018). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Kentucky State Guard O00000303 1860-03-05 1865-03-04 Categories: Organizations

The volunteer and active militia from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Existed from 1860 to 1865. Commander(s): Simon Bolivar Buckner, John W. Finnell, Daniel W. Lindsey.

Relationships Military: 38th Regiment Kentucky Militia Military: Greenfield M. Witten (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier, merchant, and businessman) Military: Alexander G. Hamilton (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Robert S. Friend (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Edwin Trimble (Floyd County, Kentucky, soldier) Military: Alexander L. Martin (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: George C. Hallet (Fulton Co, KY, colonel, county atty, and city judge) Military: W. Francis Buckner (Hickman, Kentucky, civil engineer) Military: George M. Wilburn (Hickman, Kentucky, carpenter) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Andrew Jackson Lee (Owingsville, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William Penrose Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier) Military: George W. Conner (Bath County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: John A. Turner, Jr. (Bath County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Military: Benjamin Daniel Lacy (Owingsville, Kentucky, attorney & county atty) Military: Kentucky Home Guard Military: Francis M. Vaughn (Kentucky soldier) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) Military: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: James A. Stamper (Owsley County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Military: [unknown] Drerren (Soldier, 71st Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia) Military: Frederick B. Merimee (Lebanon, Kentucky, merchant) Military: William J. Lisle (Marion County, Kentucky, attorney & captain 10th KY Inf USA) Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Military: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Military: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Military: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Military: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Military: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Military: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“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), 142-171. “Kentucky State Guard,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 513. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1861-07-22 Order 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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Headquarters Ky. State Guard, Louisville, 22 July, 1861. Special orders No 224 } Extract

By authority of the Commander in Chief, the resignations of the following officers are hereby accepted, to take effect from this date, to wit;

of Col. B. H. Helm, Asst. Inspector General

S, B Buckner Insp. Gen.

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