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 November 11, 2025 Filson Historical Society Kentucky Confederate Provisional Government Journal KYR-0004-033-0008 p. 15-17

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) N00000832 1810-04-10 1893-09-29 Categories: People

Lyon County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of Henry Machen and Nancy Tarratt Machen. Married to Margaret Aurelia Lyon Machen on December 28, 1835. Father of Mary J. Machen, Henry L. Machen, Edward Chittenden Machen, and Willis B. Machen, Jr., and Willis B. Machen III. Married to Eliza W. Dobbyns Machen in 1852. Father of John S. Machen, Mary E. Machen, Elizabeth Machen. Married to Victoria Theresa Mims Machen in Lyon County on September 10, 1859. Father of Minerva Buckner Machen. Attended Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky. Admitted to the Kentucky bar. Member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention in 1849 from Lyon County, Kentucky. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1854. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1856 to 1860. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Banks, Committee on Military Affairs, and Committee on Foreign Business in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the First and Second Confederate Congresses representing the First Kentucky District from February 22, 1862, to April 1865. Presidential pardon granted on October 3, 1865.

Relationships Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Political: Frederick Henry Skinner (Lyon County, Kentucky, hotel keeper, attorney, and judge.) Political: Provisional Council Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: D. M. Christian (Todd Co, Ky, farmer and prov govt) 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)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 769. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 416B (p. 2 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, District 1, p. 4A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lyon County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 312 of microfilm. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 343B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027, Lyon County Births, 1853, p. 2 of microfilm. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lyon County, Marriages 1854 - 1878, Film #000321364, p. 160 of microfilm. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Machen, Willis Benson,” http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000012 (accessed January 11, 2017) Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 313. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975),159-160. Find A Grave, "Willis Benson Machen (April 10, 1810-September 29, 1893)," Memorial #7932701, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7932701 (accessed January 11, 2017). “Death a Welcome Relief: Ex-United States Senator Willis B. Machen Expires In the Hopkinsville Asylum,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 30, 1893. “Machen, Willis Benson,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 598. KYR-0004-033-0001. John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) N00003952 1812-01-15 1886-05-18 Categories: People

Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and soldier. Livingston County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Johnson and Jane Leeper Johnson. Married to Elizabeth P. Eaver Johnson in 1830. Father of James L. Johnson, Antonia Johnson, Laura H. Johnson, Eliza T. Johnson, John M. Johnson, Jr, and Betty H. Johnson. Graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine. Practiced medicine in various locations in western Kentucky from 1833 to 1856. Researched and published articles in medical journals on milk sickness from 1840 to 1845. Physician in Paducah in 1860. Served in the Confederate States Army as a surgeon and medical director from 1861 until the end of the war. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1862 until his death.

Relationships Social: John Almus Gardner (Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive.) Military: John Almus Gardner (Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive.) Political: John Almus Gardner (Weakley County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and railroad executive.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Political: Lloyd Tilghman (Paducah, Kentucky, civil engineer and soldier) Military: [Unknown] Cobb (Captain, USA) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Military: Benjamin Franklin Cheatham (Davidson County, Tennessee, farmer and Confederate general) Social: Lloyd Tilghman (Paducah, Kentucky, civil engineer and soldier) Military: Richard James Oglesby (Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician.) Military: Confederate States of America Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company Political: Benjamin Hardy Stoval (Blandville, Ballard County, Kentucky, post master) Political: Wilson S. Watson (Blandville, Kentucky, saddler) Political: Provisional Council Legal: Felix Mion (McCracken County, KY, coffee house keeper and liquor dealer) Political: Committee on Banks Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Familial: Albert Sidney Johnston (Commander Dept of Pacific, US Army and general & commander western dept CSA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Crittenden County, District 2, p. 264B-265A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District No. 2, p. 890. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book (NSDAR, vol. 118, 1915), 56. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., "John Milton Johnson," Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887), 445. William B. Atkinson, M. D., ed., The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States (Philadephia: Charles Robson, 1878), 589-90. Wallace P. Reed, ed., History of Atlanta, Georgia: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., 1889), 313. John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) N00000833 1818-05-17 1874-06-20 Categories: People

McCracken County, Kentucky, and Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician (C.S.A.). Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Married to America Smedley Crockett. Father of John W. Crockett, III, Lucy Crockett, and Americus Crockett. Married to Louisa M. Ingram Crockett in Henderson County on February 27, 1855. Father of Wyatt Ingram Crockett. Educated in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and Hancock County, Illinois. Admitted to the bar and practiced in Paducah, Kentucky, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1839. Represented the Second Congressional District of Kentucky at the Southern Rights Convention in 1861. Represented Kentucky at the Border Slave State Conference in 1861. Delegate to the provisional government convention in Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Second Congressional District from 1862 to 1864. Returned to Henderson, Kentucky, to practice law after the war.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Henry J. Lyons (Kentucky, bank officer, asst QM, prov govt commissioner) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: John J. Thomas (Christian County, KY, farmer, soldier, politician, Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division 1, p.137A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 17. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 152A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 345. Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Main Series, Ad-Hu, pp. 443-55 of microfilm. H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. ed. H. Levin (Chicago, 1897), 387-388. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 65-66. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. Find a Grave, “John Watkins Crockett (May 17, 1818-June 20, 1874),” Memorial #7092229, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092229 (accessed January 12, 2017). KYR-0004-033-0001. Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) N00000838 1829-11-14 1917-10-30 Categories: People

Spencer County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Shelby Gilbert Burnett. Father of Mary Burnett, John C. Burnett, Gilbert Burnett, Theodore L. Burnett, and Marie Burnett. Graduated from Transylvania University in 1844 and again from the law department in 1846. Admitted to the bar and practiced law in Taylorsville, Kentucky. Elected Spencer County attorney in 1847. Served in the Mexican War. Owned four enslaved persons in Spencer County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Served in the Army of the Tennessee under General Albert S. Johnston in 1861. Assistant secretary of the provisional government convention in Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Sixth Congressional District member in the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: John Burnam (Warren Co, KY, merchant, farmer, prov govt rep & treasurer of prov govt) Economic: George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, Taylorsville District No 2, p. 12. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Spencer County, District No 2, p. 4. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 39. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 471. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 189-190. Find A Grave, “Theodore Legrand Burnett (1829-1917),” Memorial 7096024, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7096024 (accessed January 17, 2017). “Noted Lawyer Victim of Fall: Judge Theodore L. Burnett Dead at Advanced Age,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 31, 1917. KYR-0004-033-0001. Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) N00000846 1828-02-22 1866-12-15 Categories: People

Kentucky merchant, businessman, philanthropist, soldier, and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of George Stubblefield Bruce and Sabina Metcalfe Bruce. Married to Elizabeth Sarah “Sallie” Withers Bruce. Father of Mattie Withers Bruce, George Stubblefield Bruce, and Charles Albert Withers Bruce. Received a common education. Worked as a clerk at a dry goods store in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1847. Manufacturer of pig iron with his uncle, Henry Bruce, Jr., in Terre Haute, Indiana, from 1854 to 1859. Worked in the pork-packing industry in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his uncle, John S. Morgan. Owned several pork and beef packing plants along the Wabash, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, based in St. Louis, Missouri, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Commercial merchant in St. Louis in 1860. Employed Celia Farrell and Jane Shepherd as servants in St. Louis in 1860. Source of supplies for the Confederacy in Chattanooga in 1861. Served as a staff officer for John C. Breckinridge in the Confederate State Army during the Civil War. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Served as chairman on the Committee on Banks and the Committee on Ways and Means for the provisional government of Kentucky. Elected to the First Confederate Congress in 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Second Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Ninth Congressional District from 1862 to 1865. Appointed by Confederate Secretary of War James E. Seddon as acting commissary general of the Confederate States of America from January 30, 1865, to the end of the war. Moved to New York City, New York in late 1865. Supported many Confederate veterans and their families through donations and establishment of a veterans hotel in New York City.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Economic: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Legal: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Legal: James Guthrie (Kentucky U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) Political: Committee on Banks Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, 5th Ward City of St. Louis, p. 202. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 36. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 259A. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 36 Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. “Bruce, Eli Metcalf,” The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, ed. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 125. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 for Eli Metcalf Bruce, March 17, 1953. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls, p. 168 of microfilm. Bruce Family Papers, Eva G. Farris Special Collections, W. Frank Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University, https://steelyarchives.nku.edu/specialcollections/alphabeticallist/bruce.html) (accessed January 19, 2017). Find A Grave, “Eli Metcalfe Bruce (1828-1866),” Memorial 10043, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10043 (accessed January 19, 2017). “Death of Eli M. Bruce,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 17, 1866. “The Late E. M. Bruce,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), December 25, 1866. “Confederate Financier,” Historic Marker #1638 in Kenton County, Kentucky, Historical Marker Database Search, Kentucky Historical Society, https://secure.kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=All, (accessed January 13, 2020). KYR-0004-033-0001. Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) N00000853 1821-01-08 1908-11-28 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. and Nancy Robards Thompson. Married to Martha A. Montgomery Thompson. Father of Davis M. Thompson, Philip “Little Phil” Burton Thompson, Jr., and John Burton Thompson. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Jefferson College in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced law in Mercer County, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Served in the Second Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers as a captain from 1846 to 1847 during the US-Mexico War. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Banks and Committee on Military Affairs for the provisional government of Kentucky. Received gubernatorial pardon on September 2, 1865.

Relationships Political: Joshua A. Penton (Louisville, Ky, merchant and prov govt) Political: L. H. Chilton (Christian Co, Ky, prov govt) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Council Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Political: 9th Congressional District of Kentucky Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Committee on the Judiciary Legal: Nelson Circuit Court Social: James Lawrence Marshall (Nelson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker.) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No 1, p. 247A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 686. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 583B. The Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1896): 166-68. Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0025, Kentucky, p. 641 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on January 8, 2020). Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians: Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and other Miscellany (Louisville: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1886), 156-157. “Full of Years Noted Man Dies: Col. Phil B. Thompson, Sr., Is No More,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 29, 1908. Find A Grave, "Colonel Phillip Burton Thompson, Sr (1821-1908)," Memorial 126486353, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126486353 (accessed January 25, 2017). James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) N00000852 1810-04-28 1877-11-30 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, attorney, postmaster, and politician. Grayson County, Virginia, native. Married to Harriet Barrick Bates in Barren County in January 1834. Father of Virginia Bates, William Bates, James Bates, John Bates, George Bates, Edward Bates, and Frank Bates. Attorney in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster at Glasgow, Kentucky, from April 3, 1858, to September 6, 1859. Resident in Barren County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government at Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861. Elected member of the Council of Ten for the provisional government. Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Military Affairs for the provisional government of Kentucky.

Relationships Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Council Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Committee on Common Schools Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: George Washington Ewing (Logan County, KY, attorney and politician. Representative (Confederate congress)) Political: John Milton Elliott (Representative (Confederate)) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District No 2, p. 331A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District No 2, p. 1054. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green Precinct, p. 31A. Find A Grave, "COL James Preston Bates, I (1810-1877)," Memorial #180532393, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1805323931 (accessed January 7, 2020). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Barren County Marriages, Film #000209752, p. 520 of microfilm. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Barren County, Kentucky, Volume 28, p. 113 of microfilm. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 468. “Douglas Sentiments,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), October 19, 1860. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, 331A. KYR-0004-033-0001. KYR-0004-033-0003. James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) N00000847 1818-02-12 1877-09-17 Categories: People

Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician. Montgomery County, Kentucky, native. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Circuit court judge of the 10th Kentucky Judicial District from 1851 to 1858. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Military Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Represented the Tenth Congressional District in the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Thomas S. Bryan (Louisville, Kentucky, banker and Prov govt secy) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Provisional Council Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Committee on Common Schools Political: Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. (Franklin Co, KY, atty, judge, Provisional Congress Confederate States) Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Political: Committee on Ways and Means

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 179. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. LeRoy P. Graf, et al., eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865,--January 1866, vol. 9 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967), 185. “Death of Judge James W. Moore,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 20, 1877. Find A Grave, "James William Moore (1818-1877)," Memorial #6868706, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6868706 (accessed January 19, 2017). KYR-0004-033-0001. Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) N00011020 1829? Categories: People

Garrard County, Kentucky, trader and provisional government council member. Kentucky native. Son of Williamson G. Burnside and Elizabeth Burnside. Trader in Garrard County in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten of the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861. Member of the Committee on Ways and Means for the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Gabrael J. Salter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress nominee (C.S.A)) Political: Committee on Enrollments Political: John G. P. Hooe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, china store owner, soldier, prov govt rep) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. (Franklin Co, KY, atty, judge, Provisional Congress Confederate States)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 249A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 706. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 26B (p. 23 of microfilm). KYR-0004-033-0004. KYR-0004-033-0008. Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) N00000843 1830-02-22 1903-01-22 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney, educator, and politician. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander Bruce and Amanda Bragg Bruce. Married to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Helm Bruce in Hardin County on June 12, 1856. Father of Lucinda Hardin Bruce, John Helm Bruce, and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Bruce. Educated in Manchester, Ohio. Taught two terms of school in Lewis County in 1849 and 1850. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1851. Practiced law in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party, American “Know-Nothing” Party, and Southern Rights Party. Elected as an American “Know-Nothing” Party member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Commonwealth’s attorney for the Tenth District from 1856 to 1859. Removed to Louisville, Kentucky in 1858. Formed the law partnership of Helm and Bruce with Ben Hardin Helm. Judge in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten, chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and member of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Provisional Council Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America 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 Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Samuel Howard Ford (McCracken County & Louisville, KY, Baptist minister, editor, politician, provisional Congress (Confederate)) Political: Committee on Confederate Relations Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Military: Provisional Council Political: Committee on Banks Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City of Louisville, p. 283B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City of Louisville, p. 283B (p. 51 of microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City Louisville, p. 60A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hardin County Marriages, Film #000390788, p. 261 of microfilm. Find A Grave, "Horatio Washington Bruce (1830-1903)," Memorial 7094855, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7094855 (accessed January 18, 2017). Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 37-8. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 56-57. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 191-193. “Yields Up: Life That Was Filled With Honor, Judge H. W. Bruce Is Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 23, 1903. “Memorial Spread on the Minutes: High Tribute Paid to the Late Judge Horatio W. Bruce,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 28, 1903. George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) N00000844 1828-04-08 1892-08-01 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier, attorney, and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Married to Keturah Moss Tibbatts Hodge. Father of S. Catherine Taylor Hodge, Anna Taylor Hodge, Jane “Nan” Hodge, Mary Hodge, William Baird Hodge, Georgena Baird Hodge, and John T. Hodge. Attended the Maysville Seminary, Mason County, Kentucky. Graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1845. Served in the U.S Navy as a midshipman during U.S.-Mexican War. Resigned from the U.S. Navy in 1850. Attorney in Mason County, Kentucky in 1850. Member of the Whig Party and Southern Democratic Party. Ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party in 1852. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1859. Elector for John C. Breckinridge in 1860. Attorney in Campbell County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Served in the Confederate States Army as a private, captain, major, colonel, and brigadier general. Served as an assistant adjutant general to John C. Breckinridge. Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Member of House of Representatives for the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1864.

Relationships Legal: Reuben Taylor Thornton (Newport, Kentucky, resident) Military: Government of the United States of America Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Provisional Council Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 133B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 415. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, City of Newport, p. 309A. “Gen. Geo. B. Hodge, a Former Kentuckian, Found Dead Near His Florida Home,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 15, 1892. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 238, 264, 346-7, 416, 418. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 121-122. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 92. “George Baird Hodge (1828-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 8926, accessed January 18, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8926. James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) N00000837 1818-09-14 1881-07-29 Categories: People

Wayne County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy Nelson Bell Chrisman. Father of Alice Chrisman, Amelia B. Chrisman, Micah T. Chrisman, Fannie Chrisman, Lucy D. Chrisman, Jimonie Chrisman, Cabell P. Chrisman, and Frances Esler Chrisman Brown. Engaged in agriculture, studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1849. Practiced law in Monticello, Kentucky. Member of the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Wayne County, Kentucky. Owned five enslaved persons in Wayne County in 1850. Democratic party member of the United States House of Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1853 to 1855. Owned six enslaved persons in Wayne County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations for the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Fifth Congressional District Member of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Relationships Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Provisional Council Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, District No 1, pp. 26B-27A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, District No 1, p. 579. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Monticello, p. 234. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Wayne County, Monticello, p. 474B, p. 4 of 19 of microfilm. Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 48. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Chrisman, James Stone,” (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000376) (accessed January 13, 2017). Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 93. Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353. Find A Grave, “James Stone Chrisman (1818-1881)," Memorial 23543299, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23543299 (accessed January 13, 2017). A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) N00001858 1826? Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney and clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Tinnie C. Brown. Father of Fannie Brown. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Appointed clerk of the council of the provisional government of Kentucky on November 18, 1861. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on July 7, 1865.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Henry J. Lyons (Kentucky, bank officer, asst QM, prov govt commissioner) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 631. A. Frank Brown to Andrew Johnson, July 4, 1865, Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0025. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 97. Richard Hawes (Provisional governor of Kentucky) N001001 1797-02-06 1877-05-25 Categories: People

Second and last governor of the provisional Confederate government of the state of Kentucky. Virginia native. Son of Richard Hawes and Clara Walker Hawes. Married to Hetty Morrison Nicholas Hawes on November 13, 1818. Father of James Morrison Hawes, George N. Hawes, Samuel Hawes, Smith Nicholas Hawes, Cary Nicholas Hawes, Clara Hawes, Hettie Hawes, and Mariah J. Hawes. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Read law with Charles Humphreys and Robert Wickliffe. Served in the Black Hawk War. Practiced law and farmed in Fayette County, Clark County, and Bourbon County, Kentucky. Owned a ropewalk in Winchester, Kentucky, in partnership with Benjamin Hawes Buckner in 1825. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County in 1828, 1829, and 1836. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 7th District of Kentucky from 1837 to 1841. Member of the Democratic Party. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Major in the Confederate Commissary Department in October 1861. Appointed auditor of the provisional government in absentia but declined the appointment in Russellville on November 25, 1861. Assumed office as provisional governor of the Kentucky on May 31, 1862, after the death of George W. Johnson. Spent the rest of the war in exile. Second and final governor of the provisional government from October 4, 1862 until the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865. Returned to his law practice and business interests in Bourbon County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 229B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 437, p. 40 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 496. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris Ward 2, p. 448A. Find A Grave, "Richard Hawes (1797-1877)," Memorial #10040, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10040/richard-hawes (accessed October 18, 2016). Lowell H. Harrison, “Richard Hawes (1862-1865)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 85-88. "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Richard Hawes,” http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000363 (accessed on October 18, 2016). Patrick A. Lewis, For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 20. KYR-0004-033-0008. George Washington Johnson (Provisional Governor of Kentucky) N001002 1811-05-27 1862-04-08 Categories: People

First governor of the provisional Confederate government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Betsy Payne Johnson. Married to Ann Viley Johnson on August 20, 1833. Father of Eliza Woolfolk Johnson, Willa Viley Johnson, Madison Conyers Johnson, Martha Lydia Johnson, Junius Ward Johnson, Warren Viley Johnson, Henry Viley Johnson, and Euclid Lane Johnson. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Practiced law in Georgetown, Kentucky. Planter in Scott County, Kentucky, and Helena, Arkansas. Member of the Democratic Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Scott County from 1838 to 1840. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Scott County in 1850. Owned twenty-six enslaved persons in Scott County in 1860. Member of the Southern Rights Party. First provisional Confederate governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from November 20, 1861, to April 8, 1862. Served as an aide to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge. Served in the 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 6, 1862 to April 8, 1862. Died on April 8, 1862 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, p. 612. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No. 1, pp. 228A-B. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 168-69. Lowell H. Harrison, "Johnson, George, W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 473. Lowell H. Harrison, “George W. Johnson (1861-1862)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 82-84. Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971, 255. Bowling Green, Kentucky P00000560 Categories: Places

Seat of Warren County, Kentucky. Located on the Barren River. Seat of Kentucky's provisional government from November 18, 1861, to February 1862.

36.9685, -86.4808 Ron D. Bryant, “Bowling Green,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 106-107. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bowling Green, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 21, 2019). 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). Bourbon County, Kentucky P00000515 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Paris.

38.2171, -84.2279 H.E. Everman, "Bourbon County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, John E Kleber ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 104-05. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bourbon County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 20, 2020). Provisional Council O00011019 1861-11-18 1865 Categories: Organizations

Executive committee of the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. Consisted of ten men from ten different congressional districts: Willis B. Machen, John W. Crockett, Jr., James P. Bates, James S. Chrisman, Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Joseph B. Burnside, Horatio W. Bruce, Eli M. Bruce, James W. Moore, and George B. Hodge. President: Willis B. Machen. Clerk: A. Frank Brown.

Relationships Political: Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj & lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA) Political: Confederate States of America Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: 9th Congressional District of Kentucky Political: The People's Bank of Kentucky Political: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Political: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: John Dabney Morris (Christian County, Ky, farmer, colonel (CSA)) Political: Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. (Franklin Co, KY, atty, judge, Provisional Congress Confederate States) Political: John Dishman (Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney.) Political: Matthew Martin Lyon (Lyon/ Caldwell cos., Kentucky, miller) Political: John J. Thomas (Christian County, KY, farmer, soldier, politician, Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: George Washington Ewing (Logan County, KY, attorney and politician. Representative (Confederate congress)) Political: Daniel Price White (Provisional Congress of the Confederate States) Political: Gabrael J. Salter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress nominee (C.S.A)) Political: John Milton Elliott (Representative (Confederate)) Political: Samuel Howard Ford (McCracken County & Louisville, KY, Baptist minister, editor, politician, provisional Congress (Confederate)) Political: Committee on Confederate Relations Political: Committee on Common Schools Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) Political: Committee on Enrollments Political: Committee on Military Affairs Political: Committee on Ways and Means Political: John Burnam (Warren Co, KY, merchant, farmer, prov govt rep & treasurer of prov govt) Political: Committee on the Judiciary Political: Josiah Pillsbury (Warren County, KY, attorney and Confederate state auditor) Political: Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman) Political: Lewis W. Potter (Warren county, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Political: Robert F. Allison (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A)) Political: William Grigsby Bullitt (McCracken County, KY, prov govt conv member, attorney) Political: Committee on Banks Economic: Committee on Banks Political: Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.)) Political: James Guthrie (Kentucky U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) Political: Louisville & Nashville Railroad Political: William P. Sublett (Warren County, Kentucky, farmer and constable ) Political: Albert T. Potter (Warren County, Kentucky, constable ) Political: Commodore P. Snell (Warren County, Kentucky, constable and private 2nd KY Cav (C.S.A.)) Political: William Henry Payne (Bowling Green, KY, attorney and judge) Political: Birch Musselman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and Prov Govt financial agent) Political: A. W. Woodruff (prov gov) Political: William B. Martin (Warren County, Kentucky, clerk and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A)) Political: John Ewing Halsell (County Attorney of Warren County) Political: John G. P. Hooe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, china store owner, soldier, prov govt rep) Political: George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier) Political: Committee on Internal Improvements Political: William B. Clark (Simpson County, Ky, prov govt com rep) Political: Joseph M. Graves (Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY, schoolteacher and deputy sheriff) Political: Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Political: Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee) Political: James M. Mobley (Harris County, Georgia, attorney and secretary of the Georgia senate) Political: John Billups (Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, planter and president of Georgia Senate ) Political: Lafayette Carrington (Georgia, Clerk and teacher) Political: Warren Akin (Cass County, Georgia, attorney and politician (CSA)) Political: House of Representatives of the State of Georgia Political: Senate of the State of Georgia Political: Joseph Emerson Brown (Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, attorney and governor of Georgia) Political: General Assembly of Georgia Political: Confederate States Army Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: House of Representatives of the Confederate States Political: William M. Johnson (Simpson County, Kentucky, jailor ) Political: James M. Lane (Simpson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker and farmer) Political: General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Political: William J. Williams (Simpson County, Ky, farmer, judge, and prov govt com rep) Political: James W. Bradshaw (Simpson County, Kentucky, merchant and tax assessor ) Political: Samuel R. Hope (Simpson County, Kentucky, tinsmith and justice of the peace ) Political: Clement Fisher (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace ) Political: Pascal B. Dunn (Simpson County, Kentucky, Circuit County Clerk) Political: Samuel Davies Blackburn (Warren County, Kentucky, Attorney ) Political: Thomas S. Bocock (Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives) Political: Henry English Read (LaRue County, KY, congressman (CSA)) Political: Simpson County Court Political: Simpson Circuit Court Political: Warren County Court Political: Warren Circuit Court Political: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Political: Walter H. Peters (New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and bank commissioner (CSA only?)) Political: Senate of the Confederate States Political: D. M. Christian (Todd Co, Ky, farmer and prov govt) Political: Waddy W. Thompson (Hart County, KY, farmer and prov govt conv rep) Political: Charles Slaughter Morehead (Governor of Kentucky)

The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0003. Committee on Banks O00011356 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for overseeing banking and banks. The provisional government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Chairman: Eli Metcalfe Bruce. Members: Philip Burton Thompson and Willis Benson Machen.

Relationships Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: The People's Bank of Kentucky Political: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Political: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Legal: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate))

Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0008. Committee on Military Affairs O00011355 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for military affairs. The provisional government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Chairman: Philip Burton Thompson. Members: James P. Bates, Willis Benson Machen, and James William Moore.

Relationships Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Military: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA)

Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0008. Committee on Ways and Means O00011359 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for producing the ways and means to increase revenue. The provisional government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Chairman: James P. Bates. Members: Eli M. Bruce, Joseph B. Burnside, S. S. Scott.

Relationships Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate))

Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0008. Committee on the Judiciary O00011358 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for the administration of justice. The provisional government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Chairman: John Watkins Crockett. Members: Horatio W. Bruce and James William Moore.

Relationships Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Legal: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Legal: Provisional Council

Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0008. Committee on Finance O00011360 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for financial affairs. The provisional government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861.

Relationships Political: Provisional Council

KYR-0004-033-0008. Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. Committee on Foreign Relations O00011357 1861-11-25 1865 Categories: Organizations

Committee of the provisional government of Kentucky responsible for foreign relations. The Provisional Government and its committees were recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Chairman: Horatio W. Bruce. Members: George B. Hodge, James Stone Chrisman, and Willis Bruce Machen.

Relationships Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Provisional Council Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Military: Confederate States Army

Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0008. Provisional Government of Kentucky O00003448 1861-11-18 1865 Categories: Organizations

Confederate provisional government of Kentucky. Formed at Russellville, Kentucky, on November 18, 1861. Recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Operated from Bowling Green, Kentucky, until February 1862. Administered by a governor and council of ten. Governor(s): George W. Johnson (1861-1862) and Richard Hawes (1862-1865). Secretary of State: Robert McKee. Treasurer: John Burnam. Auditor: Josiah Pillsbury.

Relationships Political: Confederate States of America Political: Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain) Political: Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) Political: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Political: Joshua A. Penton (Louisville, Ky, merchant and prov govt) Political: L. H. Chilton (Christian Co, Ky, prov govt) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep & senator) Political: Provisional Council Political: Luke P. Blackburn (Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana, physician and special envoy) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: G. Malcolm (Jefferson County, prov govt) Political: A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt ) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Economic: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Economic: Simon Bolivar Buckner (Kentucky inspector general and general CSA) 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 Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate)) Political: The People's Bank of Kentucky Political: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Political: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Political: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Economic: James M. Lester (Lyon County, Kentucky, merchant.) Political: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson, eds., Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863). Lowell H. Harrison, "George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes: The Governors of Confederate Kentucky" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 79, no. 1 (Winter 1981): 3-39. Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. KYR-0004-033-0003. Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1861-11-25 Journal English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. 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 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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Council Chamber Bowling GreenKy Monday Novr. 25.th 1861

The council met pursuant to adjournment Honl. W. B. Machen President in the Chair

A communication was received from J. M. Johnson

Mr Crockett moved the following resolution Towit:

"Be it resolved that the following standing committees be appointed by the President to consist of three members each- a Committee on Banks, a Committee on Military, a Committee on Ways and means, a Committee on the Judiciary, a Committee on Finance and aCommittee on Foreign Relations." Which was unanimously adopted.

And then the Council adjourned. till 2 O'Clock P. M.

Attest T. L. Burnett

Sec.y Pro.tem.

Council Chamber Bowling Green Ky. Monday Novr. 25th 1861 2 O'Clock PM

The Council met pursuant to adjournment- Honl. W. B. Machen President in the chair.

The President constituted the following standing committees in pursuance of the resolution adopted by the Council viz. Committee on Banks-E. M. BruceChairman"P. B. Thompson"W. B. Machen -- (on motion)

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Mr Crockett moved the following resolution Towit: Resolved That a Committee of three be appointed to draft a law fixing the salaries of Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary of State and Clerk of the Council" Which was adopted.

The President under said resolution appointed the following Committee Towit. J. W. Crockett Chairman, P. B. Thompson and H. W Bruce.

On motion the Council proceeded to the election of a clerk which resulted in the election of A. Frank Brownof Bourbon Co.

On motion of J. W. Crockett the Council went into Executive Session.

A message from the Governer by was received and read as follows. Towit:

Bowling Green Ky Novr 25.th 1861 W. B. Machen Esq

President of the Council of the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky Sir

I have the honor to nominate for the office of Auditor the Honl. Richard Hawes and hope the Council may concur in the appointment

Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt George W Johnson

On motion of Mr Crockett the nomination of Honl. R. Hawes for Auditor was unanimously Confirmed

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The council then resumed its general session

On motion the Council adjourned to ten O'Clock A.M. tomorrow

Attest T. L. Burnett Secretary Pro.tem.