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June 2-State tobacco fair at Lonis- ville ; sales of tobacco at Spratt's ware- house, to-day, $82,474 ; one premium hogs- head sells for $4,630, being at $4:90 per pound, and several others at prices from $1:50 to $2:00 per pound.
June 6- Inspector-general Daniel W. Lindsey issues an order by direction of Gov. Bramlette, postponing the draft or- dered for June 11-" in view of the scarcity of labor, and the fact that the citizens have so patriotically and nobly responded to the late call for six-months' men." The regiments of enrolled militia throughout the state are to be organized for emergencies.
June 6-Population of Covington 18,- 717, and of Lexington 9,383.
June 6-Negro volunteering at Lexing- ton brisk ; 110 volunteer in two days.
load of negroes into U. S. service : From John Cabell S, John C. Atkinson 15, Hon. Archibald Dixon 13, Geo. Atkinson 25, D. R. Burbank 60, Mr. Givens of Paducah 10, various owners at Uniontown 27-total 158. He was accompanied by 2 gunboats-to help persuade the owners to consent to the raid.
June 8-Morgan's forces capture Mount- sterling, after a stubborn resistance by Capt. Edward C. Barlow, 40th Ky. in- fantry, with about 70 men ; they plunder the citizens freely, obtaining some $80,000 from the Farmers' Branch Bank. Leav- ing his dismounted men in camp, Morgan marches towards Lexington.
June 8-Maj. Chenoweth's (Morgan's) cavalry burn the Keller's bridge north of Cynthiana, and the Townsend and several other bridges south of that place on the Ky. Central railroad. Other detachments burn turnpike bridges, and the bridge over Benson creek beyond Frankfort on the Louisville railroad, and cut the tele- graph wires in all directions.
June 8-Capt. Peter Everett's company of Morgan's cavalry make a raid on Flemingsburg and Maysville ; seizing horses and small amounts from stores, killing one man, and near Maysville burn- ing the Fair ground buildings, which cost $20,000, and the bridge over the North Fork of Licking at the Lexington turnpike.
June 9-Gen. Burbridge, with Col. Chas. S. Hanson's 37th Ky., Col. John Mason Brown's 45th Ky., and part of Col. David A. Mims' 39th Ky. mounted in- fantry in the lead-after a remarkable march of 90 miles in 30 hours-at day- break surprises and dashes into the camp of Morgan's men near Mountsterling, as they lie asleep, unwarned by the pickets. Springing to their arms, a desperate fight ensues, and the Federals are driven out of the camp; but, reinforced in over- whelming numbers, return and drive the Confederates-the latter under Col. Mar- tin cutting their way through Mountster- ling, which was already occupied by the Federals. Col. Giltner's forces, turning back, meet them two miles west of town, when they renew the fight with deter- mined energy ; Martin's ammunition giv- ing out, they withdraw unpursued towards Lexington. Confederate loss 14 officers and 40 privates killed, about 120 wounded, and 150 prisoners. Federal loss stated at 8 killed, 20 wounded, and 50 missing, but probably much greater.
June 9- About 11 p. M., Morgan's forces deinand the surrender of Lexing- ington, which is refused by Col. Wickliffe Cooper, 4th Ky. cavalry, in command, with a small force; after fighting for a time, he falls back to Fort Clay in the suburbs, but is not again attacked. A portion of Morgan's men rob the stores and citizens, seize $10,000 from the Branch Bank of Ky., and numbers of fine horses.
June 10, 11-Morgan's main force, pass- ing through Georgetown, reaches Cynthi-
June 7-Col. Cunningham, command- ing negro troops at Paducah, makes a raid into Union co., and impresses a steamboat lana about daylight, Saturday, June 11,
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and after a brisk fight, captures the gar- rison ; his troops set fire to several houses from which they had been fired upon-the flames spreading and burning over 25 houses, with $200,000 worth of property. Sending a force below Keller's bridge, he intercepts a train with Gen. Hobson and 500 Ohio troops and 300 horses, which are captured after a gallant engagement.
June 10, 11-Lieut. Col. Pryor's Con- federate cavalry (part of Morgan's) invest Frankfort, and, a surrender being refused, make two unsuccessful assaults upon the fort and town. Col. Geo. W. Monroe, with 250 regular troops and enrolled mili- tia (including Gov. Bramlette and other leading citizens), makes a gallant defense of the city.
June 12-Gen. Burbridge, with the same force which defeated part of Morgan's troops at Mountsterling, overtakes them, about 1,200 strong, at Cynthiana about daylight on Sunday, and immediately attacks. The Confederates, although many are entirely out of ammunition, fight for an hour with great desperation ; but are overpowered and driven out of town in several directions ; losing, besides the killed and wounded, over 300 prison- ers. Part of Morgan's force escapes through Scott co., while he leads the main force, after paroling some 600 prisoners taken on the 10th, on the Claysville and Augusta road, through Mayslick, Mason co., on the same night, and Flemingsburg next morning. His raid has proved de- cidedly disastrous.
June 12-The U. S. secretary of war reports to congress that, "in his judg- ment, a military necessity does not exist for a railroad from Danville, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn."
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June 18-Capt. Bowling's guerrillas make a raid on Cadiz, Trigg co.
June 18-Gen. Burbridge, by general order, prohibits the circulation in Ky., " by sale or otherwise, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper in the interest of the rebellion, and of all other papers of like character."
June 20-Gen. Burbridge decides not to give up to any but owners who prove their loyalty, the horses recaptured from Mor- gan at Cynthiana.
June 21-Guerrillas visit Brandenburg, Meade co.
June 21-Maj. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, from headquarters in Georgia, addresses a letter of instruction to Brig. Gen. Burbridge, commanding division of Ky. He says :
" Before starting on this campaign, I asked Gov. Bramlette to at once organize in each county a small trustworthy band, under the sheriffs, and at one dash arrest every man in the community who was dangerous to it; and also every fellow hanging about the towns, villages, and cross-roads who had no honest calling- the material out of which guerrillas are made up; but this sweeping exhibition of power doubtless seemed to the governor rather arbitrary .. ......
" Ist. You may order all post and dis- trict commanders that guerrillas are not soldiers, but wild beasts, unknown to the usages of war .........
" 3d. Your military commanders, provost marshals, and other agents, may arrest all males and females who have encouraged or harbored guerrillas and robbers, and you may cause them to be collected in Louisville ; and when you have enough- say 300 or 400-I will cause them to be sent down the Mississippi, through their guer- rilla gauntlet, and by a sailing ship send them to a land where they may take their negroes and make a colony, with laws and a future of their own.'
June 22-Ex-Governor Powell's resolu- tion, in the U. S. Senate, in relation to the military suppression of the Cincinnati Enquirer in Ky., defeated by 3 to 29.
June 23-Maj. Wm. W. Bradley acquit- ted by court-martial at Chattanooga of the charge of murder in killing Lieut. Col. Thos. T. Vimont (both of 7th Ky. cav- alry,) on Jan. 16, 1864, in a quarrel.
June 27-A squad from Lieut. Ranton's Co., 30th Ky., kills young Martin, near Crittenden, Grant co.
June 29-Gold in New York sells at $260 in greenbacks for $100 in gold.
July 1-2,151 " rebel " prisoners trans- ferred, during the month of June, from the military prisons in Louisville to pris- ons north of the Ohio river.
July 1-Great fire in Louisville, on Main street between 8th and 9th; loss $1,500,000, of which $800,000 worth of government stores.
July 1-Congress repeals the law pro- hibiting traffic in gold, by a vote in the senate of 24 to 13, and in the house of 88 to 29.
July 3-Gen. Burbridge issues an order requiring all prisoners captured and par- oled by Morgan's forces to report to their regiments for service immediately-said paroles "having been given in violation of orders from the U. S. war department."
July 5-President Lincoln, alarmned at the prevalence of Confederate and guer- rilla raids into Ky., suspends the writ of habeas corpus, and proclaims martial law in the state.
July -Death at Washington city of Brig. Gen. Jas. P. Taylor, commissary general of subsistence of the U. S. army ; he was a brother of the late President, Gen. Zachary Taylor, and entered the service from Ky. in 1813.
July 10-Col. Frank Wolford arrives at Louisville from Washington city under parole, to await a military trial for " lan- guage said to have been used by him at Lebanon," embraced in 13 charges.
July 10-R. Aitcheson Alexander, of Woodford co., sells two fine stallions at $17,000 and $7,500.
July 11-Guerrillas attack Elizabeth- town, Hardin co., but are repulsed.
July 11-Guerrillas dash into Hender- son, plunder the stores, and shoot James E. Rankin, a merchant. [See next page.]
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July 7-Convention of the " friends of the administration " at Frankfort to select a candidate for judge of the court of ap- peals in the 2d appellate district. Morti- mer M. Benton, of Covington, (who, it is stated, was a warm sympathizer with the South when the rebellion began), is nomi- nated over Wm. W. Trimble, of Cyn- thiana.
July 11-Gold opened in New York city at 288, but closed at 277.
July 11-Gov. Bramlette's letter to Col. Richard T. Jacob alludes to information just received from the latter, and learned for the first time, that Col. Frank Wolford's arrest was upon a charge of " discouraging enlistments," and adds : "If this arrest was for a political offense ...... we have suffi- cient material in Ky. for hostages-among those who favor and urge such arrests. The loyal people of Ky. cannot be pro- voked or driven into rebellion against the government; but in self-defense might justly retaliate political arrests - upon those who, among our own citizens, urge or provoke political arrests, and seek to in- augurate political terrorism. Kentuckians must be permitted to hold and express their own political sentiments, without being restrained by arrests. But the un- restricted privilege of expressing political sentiments does not give license to utter treason. Treason is at war with our polit- ical liberties. But there is no treason in advocating or opposing any candidate for office ; nor in the advocacy or opposition to any measure of policy for conducting the government. Our political liberty requires the suppression of treason as a means of maintaining our freedom of speech and free elections."
July 12 to 19-Geo. N. Sanders, for- merly of Ky., now of "Dixie," writes from Niagara Falls, Canada, to Horace Greeley, New York, proposing a " peace conference," if Clement C. Clay, jr., and J. Halcombe, as Confederate commission- ers, be tendered safe conduct to Washing- ton to meet President Lincoln. After sev- eral days' preliminary negotiation, the latter mentions terms which the former refuse to entertain, and they remain in Canada.
July 13-Gold in New York 273.
July 14-Gold in New York falls to 25818.
July 15-Over 12.000 negroes have been taken out of Ky. and enlisted else- where.
July 15-It is just made public, through a letter from Wm. G. (" Parson ") Brown- low to his Knoxville Whig, that the Ky. delegation to the Baltimore national con- vention which nominated President Lin- coln for re-election, went to Washington city and called in a body upon the Presi- dent. Through Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breck- inridge as their spokesman, they entered their protest against the raising of troops in Ky. for home defense, and especially against the placing of them under com- mand of Gov. Braunlette and Col. Wolford. |
July -The Ky. members of congress at Washington city call upon President Lincoln and request him to rescind the order of Gen. Burbridge arresting Col. Frank Wolford ; to which Mr. Lincoln replies that he will not depart from the policy before pursued concerning Vallan- digham. Col. Wolford is sent, on parole, to Ky. for his trial.
July 16-Brevet Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge issues " general orders No. 59," " for the suppression of guerrillas." Among other stringent measures or threats are these :
"Rebel sympathizers living within five miles of any scene of outrage committed by armed men not recognized as public enemies by the rules and usages of war" [guerrillas] " will be liable to be arrested and sent beyond the limits of the United States.
"So much of the property of rebel sym- pathizers as may be necessary to indem- nify the government or loyal citizens for losses incurred by the acts of such lawicss men, will be seized and appropriated for this purpose.
" Wherever an unarmed Union citizen is murdered, four guerrillas will be se- lected from the prisoners in the hands of the military authorities, and publicly shot to death in the most convenient place near the scene of outrage."
July 15-Out of over 1,000 men drafted in Kenton co. only 21 have given personal service ; and only 8 out of a similar num- ber drafted in Campbell co.
July 16-Gov. Hahn removes Judge Wm. W. Handlin (late of Ky.), of the 3d. district court ot New Orleans-because he decided, in a case, that the institution of slavery still exists in the parish of New Orleans and in the State of Louisiana.
July 16-Two negro regiments have been organized at Louisville, and 6 or 7 are being organized at Camp Nelson, Jes- samine co.
July 18-President Lincoln orders out 500,000 more troops, and a draft on Sept. 5th for any deficiency.
July 18-24 women and children reach Louisville military prison, being arrested and sent there by Gen. Sherman-who orders them sent down the river to New Orleans, and thence by sea out of the country.
July 19-Brig. Gen. E. A. Paine as- sumes command at Paducah, and begins a fifty-one days' reign of violence, terror, rapine, extortion, oppression, bribery, and military murders.
July 19-Two young men, named Powell and Thompson, sent from the military prison at Louisville to Henderson, and shot in retaliation for the shooting of Jas. E. Rankin, a few days ago. [Mr. Rankin recovered, and refused to receive any part of the $18,000 forcibly collected off his neighbors, to pay him his losses by guer- rillas.]
July 20 to 25-Some " Unconditional Union " candidates for office furnish to
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the military the names of men whom they desire arrested, in order to secure their own election ; the arrests are made accord- ingly.
July 21-16 guerrillas under Capt. Dick Yates ambush a detachment of Daviess co. home guards, at Rough creek, Ohio co., killing 4 and wounding 1.
July 22-Mr. Robinson killed by guer- rillas at his home on Eagle creek, Scott co., near Owen co. line. 27th-Gen Bur- bridge sends a detail of Federal soldiers there, with a captured guerrilla to be shot upon the spot, in retaliation.
July 24-The U. S. secretary of war issues "order No. 25 :" 1. If the owners of slaves who have left their service, and taken refuge in the camps, or resorted to the towns, desire them to become soldiers in the U. S. service, they have only to in- dicate this desire to the provost marshals, who will arrest the negroes and put them in the service [not return them to their owners] ; 2. All Ky. negroes who have run off or have been persuaded off to adjoin- ing States, to be enlisted for the sake of bounty of which they get only a small part or none, are "requested" to be seized and enlisted in Ky. regiments.
July 24-Severe drouth ; since May 27, 59 days, only two inches and forty-three hundredths of rain have fallen.
July 26-Gen. Burbridge issues order No. 61, commanding any persons banished from Missouri or other states to leave Ky. within 20 days, and not return during the war.
July 26-Gibson Mallory, state senator from Jefferson co., killed at 11 p. M., 5 miles from Louisville, by a soldier, who was arrested, but discharged by Gen. Bur- bridge.
July 29-Three days before the annual state election, Gen. Burbridge issues the following order, and a similar one to the sheriff of every county in the 2d appellate district :
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF KY., FIRST DIVISION 27TH ARMY CORPS,
Lexington, Ky., July 29, 1864. ) To the Sheriff of Kenton co., Independence, Kentucky :
You will not allow the name of Alvin Duvall to appear upon the poll-books as a candidate for office at the coming election.
By order of Maj. Gen. Burbridge. J. BATES DICKSON, Capt. and A. A. G.
July 29-Two alleged guerrillas sent from prison in Louisville to Russellville, Logan co., to be shot on the spot where a Mr. Porter died, in that county, from wounds while resisting the outrages of guerrillas.
July 28 to Aug. 11-" Under Gen. Sher- man's instructions to Gen. Burbridge, and partly upon Gen. Carrington's information to Gov. O. P. Morton, of Indiana," Gen. Burbridge orders the arrest of citizens. many of them leading and prominent, in many counties-among them the following:
City of Louisville and Jefferson co .- Joshua F. Bullitt (chief justice of Ky.),
Dr. Henry F. Kalfus (ex-Maj. 15th Ky. Federal infantry ), W. K. Thomas, Alfred Harris, G. W. G. Payne, Jos. R. Buchanan, Thos. Jeffries, M. J. Paul, John Hines, John Colgan, Henry Stickrod. Michael Carroll, Wm. Fitzhenry, Erwin Bell, A. J. Brannon, Thos. Miller, A. J. Mitchell, John Rudd, Chas. J. Clarke, B. C. Red- ford, John H. Talbott, W. G. Gray ._
Gallatin co .- Dr. A. B. Chambers, Gar -- rett Furnish.
Boone co .- Dr. John Dulaney, Spencer Fish, Henry Terrell, Warren Rogers, Ed- mund Grant, and Jas. T. Grant. -
Kenton co. - Daniel Mooar, M. Duke Moore, John W. Leathers, Green Clark- son, W. D. F. Timberlake, F. M. North- cutt, Wm. Coleman, W. W. Wilson, Rob- ert M. Carlisle, Samuel Howard.
Warren co .- 22 men arrested and brought to Louisville, but their names suppressed by the military.
Boyd co .- Hon. Laban T. Moore.
Livingston co .- Judge Wiley P. Fow- ler, Reuben A. Cropton, John Lefler, C. Bennett, Theodore Davis, and - Law.
Owen co .- Pascal Ayers, Jas. W. Baker. Judge Alvin Duvall, and many others who receive timely hints of or have reason to suspect the military plans, escape from the state and thereby avoid arrest.
July 30-Gen. McDowell at San Fran- cisco orders the arrest of Bishop I. H. Kavanaugh, of Ky., of the Methodist E. Church South, on suspicion of being a Confederate emissary, but releases him after an examination.
Aug. 1-Election for sheriffs and some minor county or precinct officers, and for judge of the court of appeals in the 2d district. Alvin Duvall was a candidate for re-election, but forced off the track by the military edict above, and compelled to fly from the state and country to avoid arrest. He received a large vote in three counties which did not receive the military notice. Notwithstanding the track seemed thus adroitly and arbitrarily cleared for the success of Mortimer M. Benton, the Unconditional Union nominee, other Union men this morning brought out Judge Robertson as a candidate, tele- graphed the fact over the district, and he was elected-as follows :
Counties ....
Robertson.
Benton ..
Duvall .......
Populat'n.
Anderson
... 99
43
3 1,085
Boone.
Boyle ..
391
37
..
..
1,124
Bracken
115
767
2,151
Campbell.
805
194 5,597
Carroll.
...
17
137
916
Fayette.
607
201
3
2,805
Franklin
515
48
190
820
Garrard
476
162
27
1,381
Grant
54
112
77
1,427
Harrison
441
297
131
2,183
Henry
151
34
467
1,766
..
184
44
1,989
1,808
Gallatin
58
Voting
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Jessamine
233
60
1,299
Kenton ..
..
920
5,984
Mercer
54
192
1,844
Oldham
191
5
966
Owen
51
112
225
2,226
Pendleton.
269
506
149
2,037
Scott
322
50
1,752
Shelby
253
5
165
2,185
Trimble.
10
533
818
Woodford
225
17
14
972
4,332
3,890
2,936 45,135
3,890 Total vote cast 11,158
Robertson's maj. 442 Vote not cast .. 33,977
In consequence of the above astounding vote, Gov. Bramlette, Aug. 5, addresses to the sheriffs and officers of election in those counties a circular, asking: 1. If they received an order from any military com- mander requiring them to exclude from the poll-books any candidate's name ? and if so, send the order ; 2. If they obeyed the order, and what candidate was benefitted thereby ? 3. How many votes would the excluded candidate probably have received ? and 4. Were the judges overawed by the presence or menace of soldiers, so as to interfere with free suf- frage, and a free and equal election ? Send all information bearing upon these points.
Aug. 1-Gen. Paine, in command at Paducah, issues an order levying a tax of $100,000 upon residents of his military district, nominally for the benefit of sol- diers' families living in western Ky.
Aug. 4-The Louisville Journal inti- mates that a number of arrests have been made in Ky., but says it has been re- quested by the military not to publish the names.
Aug. 6-The banks of the Cumberland river lined with guerrillas, who in conse- quence of the low water can board nearly every passing steamboat.
Aug. 7-At Salem, Livingston co., Capt. Hugh M. Hiatt, with a detachment of 48th Ky., successfully defends the old court house against Maj. Chenoweth's Confederate cavalry ; several killed and wounded on each side.
. Aug. 8-The Louisville Democrat says : "It is thought strange that citizens render little or no active assistance against guer- rilla parties, and their inaction is pun- ished by the military as disloyalty. It may be patriotic and heroic to take up arms or give information against them ; but who is to protect the man who does this, when the guerrillas assail him next day ? If a citizen is to aid, let him be protected in it ; otherwise any expectation of his active help is unreasonable."
Ang. 9-Squire Turner, a distinguished citizen of Richmond, Madison co., aged 72, shot and dangerously wounded by Col. Shackleford.
Aug. 10-The Louisville Democrat says : " A large number of political prisoners are confined in the military barracks here, and the number is being increased daily
by the arrival of prisoners arrested in other portions of the state."
Aug. 10-Gen. Paine banishes from Pa- ducah to Canada, sending them under guard of negro soldiers as far as Cairo, the following : Mrs. Robert Woolfolk and family, 8 persons (Mr. Woolfolk having been banished by the same officer two weeks previously ) ; Mrs. Hobbs ; Mrs. Melrouse and sister; Robert Shanklin ; and from Columbus, Mrs. Dowell, Mr. Malone, Geo. B. Moore, Pembroke Walker, Burns Walker, James Morton, R. E. Cooke, N. Cooke, Judge Vance, Mckean Hubbard, and Jas. Moore (late postmas- ter.) (Most of them are leading mer- chants and property owners ; when ar- rested, their goods are seized and guards placed over them. Many others, to avoid arrest under Paine's reign of terror, aban- don their property-and escape to Illinois.
Aug. 11 - Col. Hartwell T. Burge's 48th Ky. mounted infantry, " thoroughly mounted, by pressing horses from disloyal citizens upon disloyal receipts, payable upon future proof of loyalty." So says Report of Adj. Gen. of Ky., vol. ii, p. 489.
Aug. 12-Four guerrillas taken from Eminence to some point in the adjoining county to be shot.
Aug. 13-Guerrillas plunder Westport, Oldham co.
Aug. 13-By order No. 63, Gen. Bur- bridge absolutely interdicts all shipments of produce or goods of any kind, either in, or through, or into the state-except upon permits 'issued, for 4 months, to per- sons of "well known loyalty," whose loyalty is established " by a board of five advisers, well known citizens of unques- tioned loyalty, respectability, and integ- rity, and who, in case of doubt, will take this oath :
" I do solemnly swear that I have not, by word or action, given the slightest aid and comfort to the present rebellion ; and that by conversation and action I will do all I can to discourage, discountenance, and overthrow the rebellion, and will use my influence to restore the authority of the government of the United States over the states now in rebellion."
The carriers of goods without such per- mit to be arrested and imprisoned, and the goods themselves to be seized and the owners' names reported to Gen. Bur- bridge's headquarters for further dispo- sition.
Aug. 15-Geo. W. Wainscott, Wm. Lin- genfelter, and John W. Lingenfelter exe- cuted at Williamstown, Grant co., by or- der of Gen. Burbridge-in retaliation for the murder of Joel Skirvin and Andrew Simpson, by guerrillas.
Aug. 15-Richmond Berry and May Hamilton taken to Bloomfield, Nelson co., to be executed-in retaliation for the kill- ing at that place of J. R. Jones by guer- rillas.
Aug. 16-At a fair given by negroes in Louisville, the police capture all the males
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and take them to the military prison ; next day the sound ones are forced to en- list, some set to work on the fortifications, and others discharged.
Aug. 19-Gen. Hovey, of Indiana troops, levies $32,000 on citizens in and around Morganfield, Union co., nomi- nally "to remunerate the government for losses sustained by frequent guerrilla raid3."
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