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 November 11, 2025 Filson Historical Society Kentucky Confederate Provisional Government Journal KYR-0004-033-0036 p. 101-102

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 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. 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. Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state) N00011014 1831? 1909-06-11 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, journalist and secretary of state. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of William McKee and Abigail McKee. Married to Emily F. Reed McKee in Mason County, Kentucky, on August 16, 1855. Father of Charles McKee and Belle McKee. Clerk in a country store in Fleming County from 1848 to 1852. Laborer in Fleming County in 1850. Bookkeeper in Fleming County from 1852. Writer in 1856. Editor and owner of the Maysville Express from 1857 to 1859. Editor of the Louisville Daily Courier from 1859 to October 1861. Secretary at the convention of the provisional government in Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861. Elected secretary of state of the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861. Writer and editor in Dallas County, Alabama, from October 1865.

Relationships 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: 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: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky 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: 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: Provisional Council Political: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: William B. Clark (Simpson County, Ky, prov govt com rep) Economic: William B. Clark (Simpson County, Ky, prov govt com rep) Political: Henry English Read (LaRue County, KY, congressman (CSA))

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Division 2, p. 391A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 454. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, p. 650A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281844, p. 400. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281846, p. 39. California, Death Index, 1905-1939, Surnames L-R, California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records-Vitalsearch (www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com). The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide, Inc., Pleasanton, California, p. 234 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com on January 9, 2020). Thomas M Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography Vol. IV (Chicago: S.J. Clarke & Co, 1921), p. 1120. KYR-0004-033-0002. Joseph M. Graves (Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY, schoolteacher and deputy sheriff) N00012023 1820? Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, school teacher and deputy sheriff. Kentucky native. Married Lucy Ann Scott in Christian County, Kentucky, on November 6, 1838. Father of James C. Graves and John J. Graves. School teacher in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Deputy sheriff in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1860. Nominated as sheriff for Christian County by the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky in December 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District 2, p. 359. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 669. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 001942963, p. 157. KYR-0004-033-0036. 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. Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) N00011225 1810 1882 Categories: People

Todd County, Kentucky, farmer, minister, and provisional government convention member. Kentucky native. Married to Mary A. McGowan Moore. Father of Martha G. Moore, Sarah M. Moore, Mary C. Moore, Melville A. Moore, Thomas Moore, Harriet L. Moore, Lou A. Moore, Jarvis B. Moore, Charles B. Moore, and Hannah Moore. Methodist minister in Todd County in 1850. Farmer in Todd County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Todd County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Provisional Council Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Committee on Internal Improvements

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 247A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 696. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 347A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, Fairview, p. 370A. Find A Grave, "Rev. Jordan T.C. Moore (1810-1882)," Memorial #53009138, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53009138 (accessed October 23, 2019). Find A Grave, "Mary McGowan Moore (1815-1888)," Memorial #53009117, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53009117 (accessed October 23, 2019). KYR-0004-033-0001. Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff) N00008283 1819? Categories: People

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Eveline Johnson. Father of Joel M. Johnson, John W. Johnson, James R. Johnson, Sarah F. Johnson, Mary K. Johnson, Noah N. Johnson, and Thomas E. Johnson. Commissioner and first sheriff of Webster County, Kentucky. Farmer in Webster County in 1860.

Relationships Political: William W. Gentry (Webster Co., KY, JP & Farmer) Political: William M. Cox (Webster Co. KY, constable) Political: Julius Augustus Jackson (Webster County, Kentucky, Farmer.) Political: Josiah N. Rice (Webster County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Pinkney C. Maxwell (Webster Co., KY, resident ) Political: Spencer Herrick (Webster Co., KY, farmer, private in Sypert's Reg KY Cav CSA ) Political: Yancy W. Brooks (Webster Co., KY, farmer) Political: Marion C. Doris (Webster Co., KY, Circuit Co. Clerk, merchant) Political: Charles W. Cook (Webster Co, ky, farmer, judge,(attorney later)) Political: Russell Knight Thornberry (Webster Co., KY, farmer) Political: William Sammons (Webster Co, KY, farmer & justice of the peace) Political: Hiram H. Smith (Webster Co., Ky, farmer and state rep) Political: Isaac Baker (Webster Co, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Philip D. Clayton (Webster County, KY, dep sheriff, county court clerk, census enumerator, and attorney) Political: John A. Brooks (Hopkins + Webster Co. clerk, notary public + attorney ) Social: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 91. Minerva Bone Bassett, Some Webster County, Kentucky Families: Baker, Bassett, Givens, Johnson, Payne, Price, Rice, and Others (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1983), 76. "An Act to Establish the County of Webster," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 76. 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. 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). Christian County, Kentucky P00001918 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Hopkinsville.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Christian County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 187-88. Webster County, Kentucky P00002312 Categories: Places

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

37.5178, -87.6903 James Duane Bolin, "Webster County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 939-40. "Dixon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/, accessed September 6, 2019. 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. Executive Department, Kentucky (C.S.A.) O00011543 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Office of the Provisional Confederate Governor of Kentucky, in which the Provisional Constitution of Kentucky vests the executive power of the state.

Paul Blanchard, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222. Confederate States Army O00000506 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).

Relationships Military: William Harris (possible confederate soldier) Military: United States Army Military: John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier) Military: Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Political: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Military: [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) Military: Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) Military: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) ) Military: Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)

Henry Putney Beers, The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259. House of Representatives of the Confederate States O00012059 1861-03-11 1865-03-18 Categories: Organizations

Chamber of Congress within the Confederate States.

“Constitution of the Confederate States: March 11, 1861,” The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy, Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19thcentury/csacsa.asp (accessed January 27, 2020). Congress of the Confederate States of America O00002994 1862-02-18 1865-03-18 Categories: Organizations

Bicameral legislative body of the Confederate State of America. Convened in Richmond, Virginia. The First Congress met from February 18, 1862 to February 18, 1864. The Second Congress met from May 2, 1864 to March 18, 1865.

Relationships Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Political: Committee on Confederate Relations Political: Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. (Franklin Co, KY, atty, judge, Provisional Congress Confederate States)

Ezra J. Warner, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975). Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1861-12-27 Journal English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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Friday December 27.th 1861

The council met. Mr Crockett President Protem in the chair.

A message from the Governor by Mr McKee Secretary of State was received --

Mr President: I am directed to lay before this council a message in writing from the Governor:

Executive Office Bowling Green Ky Dec. 26. 1861

Gentlemen of the Council of the State of Kentucky

I herewith nominate for the Office of Sheriff of the County of Christian, J. M. Graves of said County

George W. Johnson

The nomination of J. M. Graves for Sheriff of Christian County was Confirmed Whereupon Mr Graves appeared and tooke the Oath prescribed by law

The council took up the bill in regard to raising Volunteers. The select Committee to whom was referred said bill reported a substitute entitled "an Act to raise and arm Thirty regiments of Volunteer Infantry and Cavalry-

Mr H. W. Bruce offered the following amendment to the substitute Towit: "The Governor is also authorized to receive in the same manner, One or more Companies of Artillery to consist of not less than men nor more than men

Said company or companies shall be mustered into the service of the Confederate States on the same terms and conditions as aforesaid The Officers shall be elected by the members of of the Company.

The vote was taken on said amendment and it was lost

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The question was then on the adoption of the substitute reported by the select Committee and being put it was decided in the affirmative Mr Moore then moved that the further consideration of the bill be postponed until tomorrow at 10 O'Clock A. M. and that the same be made the special order of the day for that hour which motion prevailed --

Mr M. M Johnson Sheriff of Webster County appeared and took the oath prescribed by law.

Mr H. W. Bruce from a select Committee reported a bill entitled "An act to provide for the election of Members to the House of Representativesof the Congress of the Confederate States" which bill then had its first reading. On Motion the rule of the council Constitutional provision and second reading were dispensed with

On Motion of Mr Moore the further consideration of the bill was postponed until tomorrow --

And then the Council adjourned until 10 O'Clock A. M. Tomorrow

Attest A. Frank Brown Clerk