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Harrison Heritage News Published Monthly by Harrison County Historical Society, PO Box 411, Cynthiana, KY 41031 Harrison Heritage News Published monthly by Harrison County Historical Society, PO Box 411, Cynthiana, KY 41031 Award of Merit - Publication or Journal, 2007 Kentucky History Awards Program http://harrisoncountyky.us/historical-society May 2015 Vol. 16 No. 4 Letters to Civil War Governors from Harrison County Bill Penn Recently, I was given permission to search the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary database at the Kentucky Historical Society. Although the project is still underway, researchers can examine the data gathered to date. I was able to find many letters to governors from Harrison County concerning petitions, requests for appointments of officers, pardon requests, and other correspondence. Attached are a few interesting letters that actually list, through their signatures, many of the Union supporters in Harrison County. According to the KHS web site, the Civil War Governors of Kentucky project “is a multi-year documentary-editing project dedicated to locating, imaging, transcribing, anno- tating and publishing documents associated with all five of the state’s Civil War governors, including the three Union governors, Beriah Magoffin (1859-62), James F. Robinson (1862-63) and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-67), and the two provisional Confederate governors, George W. Johnson (1861-62) and Richard Hawes (1862-65).” (Note: the database reference number is shown at the bottom of each letter. A key to the code is available at the project’s web site. Also, the letter transcriptions by KHS staff reflect their attempts to read the writing, and there will be occasional names mis- spelled). This letter was to Governor Robinson written by William W. Trimble, probably the lead- ing Union leader in Harrison County. Trimble (1821-1886) was an influential attorney who opposed secession. His letter was written soon after the First Battle of Cynthiana and before the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. Although there were Home Guards in the county under George W. Berry, who Trimble mentions in the letter, these unpaid volun- teers were not mounted. Trimble was requesting that Berry be commissioned a major with the authority to raise a batallion for several month’s service and be properly armed and provided with horses. There is no evidence that Robinson approved having the state fund this militia unit. Under the county’s existing Home Guard authority, however, Berry could have mounted his companies, but apparently there was insufficient local funding for arms, horses, and supplies. Wm. W. Trimble Cynthiana Aug 25 /62 To Jas F. Robinson Esq Acting Gov of Ky It is perfectly manifest that organized bodies of horsemen are roaming through Harrison County in the vicinity of the railroad after dark, drilling & recruiting for the purpose of escaping to join some rebel forces or to act in Conjunction with other rebel forces in the state. Meanwhile they are perpetrating outrages upon citizens by arresting them and tearing up railroad and stealing horses. None but a local force can break up these organi- zations and Capture the scoundrels Composing them. By calling into service for two or three months two or three hundred mounted horse guards properly equipped & commanded quiet can be restored to this county. We unfortunately have a good many returned rebels from the rebel army who at first professed to be sorry for what they had done but who now show by their acts & sympathies that they are spies ^for^ and coadjutors with their former companions in arms. No loyal man can be secure until the power of the government is shown to be sufficient to crush these bands the sooner it shall be done the better for all parties concerned. Provision for their subsistence & pay must be made before<pb/>we can get the men to act. Four companies can be raised here im- mediately. [continued on p. 4] Harrison Heritage News – May 2015 (Volume 16, Issue 4) 2 Harrison County President’s Corner Historical Society - Don Wagoner Don Wagoner, President Brian Harney, Vice President - [email protected] I wish to thank the Bertha Lebus Charitable Marilynn Bell, Secretary - [email protected] Trust for the generous $1,500 donation to Virgie Wells, Treasurer the Harrison County Historical Society. It is Bill Penn, editor: [email protected] donations like this one that allow us to plan and bring to fulfillment programs and projects NEW MEMBERS otherwise not possible to accomplish. Again, our sincere appreciation Lisa Aubrey, Cynthiana, Ky. and thanks to the Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust. Thomas P. Case, Columbia, Ky. On April 23, 2015, the Harrison County Judge-Executive, the David C. Case, Cynthiana, Ky. Honorable Alex Barnett, hosted our monthly meeting in the newly James S. Case, Cynthiana, Ky. renovated old Harrison County courthouse. Judge Barnett presented Ivan P. King, Harrison, Oh. an informative program tempered with humor and attention to detail Brittane A. Means, Cynthiana, Ky. about the courthouse’s history and the $1.3 million renovation. At the Bill Overbey, Crescent Springs, Ky. conclusion of the program, Judge Barnett gave us a guided tour of the Earl Wolfe, Maysville, Ky. building and its renovations that look fantastic. A tip of the hat and many thanks to you, Judge Barnett. Historical Society Meeting Notes Ms. Sally Kinney, one of our members and a member of the local April 23 - President Don Wagoner called the April 23rd meet- DAR, has invited the Society to attend the DAR meeting on June 13, ing to order in the recently renovated courtroom of the old 2015, at 2:00 P.M. The meeting will be in the second floor community courthouse. He announced that Elizabeth Darnell had invited room of the Harrison County courthouse. A reception will be held members to visit the vault where victims of the British attack for local artist, Herbert Allen Moore’s unveiling of his oil painting of on Ruddles Station were laid to rest. former Harrison County resident, Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha Upcoming programs are listed elsewhere on this page. (1822-1826). There is an elevator to the second floor. Invited guests Don congratulated Bill Penn on the April 2015 newsletter are encouraged to bring cookies for the reception. article featuring the courthouse history. He added that Bill will give a tour of the Cynthiana Civil War battlefields in Upcoming Events and Meetings September. Meeting time and place: May-Oct., 4th Thursday, 7 pm; November, 3rd The program in May will be given by the History Clubs Thurs. 7 pm. Hospice of the Blue Grass on Oddville Avenue, 1317 US from the Eastside and Northside Elementary schools. Don en- HWY 62E. Meeting room is 1st floor rear entrance. couraged members to attend and support the youth in their in- May 28 - Historical Society Meeting. The Eastside and Northside El- terests in local history. Attendance last year for the children’s ementary Schools History Clubs will present their annual programs. programs was disappointing as the children outnumbered the June 5 - Ky. Historical Soc - Boone Day. http://history.ky.gov/events/. Historical Society members. June 6 - Historical Society field trip to Blue Licks State Park. Transpor- Don then turned the program over to Harrison County tation is free. Museum admission and battlefield tour is grand total of Judge-Executive Alex Barnett who shared information about $1. Lunch will be at the park’s fine cafeteria at your cost. the courthouse and its history. Renovation has made the June 25 - Historical Society meeting - 2015 is the 50th anniversary courthouse very usable and a source of community pride. of the Vietnam War and the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the Historical Society members appreciate and applaud the ef- Harrison County Vietnam War Memorial Monument. Eddie Coppage, forts of the Harrison Co. Fiscal Court for the preservation of former Harrison County Clerk, will present a program on these mat- a community asset when, ters. All Vietnam veterans are invited to attend whether or not they are so often the prevailing at- members of the Society. titude has been to neglect or June 27 - CHS Alumni Banquet and reunion at Harrison Co. Exten- destroy physical evidence sion Office, New lair Road, 5 pm, $20 each reservations required: Send that was a part of our history check payable to CHS Alumni to Elaine Blackburn, 50 Eastland Estates and contributed in some way Dr., Cynthiana, 41031 (859-234-5689). to making us who we are. July 23 - Historical Society meeting - Bob Ammerman will present Marilynn Bell, Secretary. a program about his mother, Esther Muller Ammerman, being one of 1,000 U. S. Army Women’s Air Force service pilots (WASPS) in WW II chosen from the 16,000 women who volunteered nationwide to be (left) Judge-Executive Alex WASPS. Barnett presented a program August - 20 - Sam Flora, Morgan’s Men Association, will present a on the courthouse history and program about the 2nd Ky.y. Cavalry under Gen. John Hunt Morgan at led a tour of the recently com- the Battle of Fort Donaldson. pleted renovation. Nov. 19 - 3rd Thursday - Historical Society meeting. Program will be the always popular “Show and Tell.” Bring your family or historic items. Harrison Heritage News – May 2015 (Volume 16, Issue 4) 3 Kenny Simpson, Curator www.HarrisonCountyKy.US/Museum Mary Grable, Secretary Harrison Heritage News – May 2015 (Volume 16, Issue 4) 4 And two have already been raised who Elected Geo. W. Berry Major for their battalion. One raw regiment of Federal troops has been stationed here for a few days but the Colonel says that he is powerless for the reason that his men do not know the topography of the Country are not mounted and can not with sufficient speed pursue & capture the mounted marauders We have intelligence of the existence of three companies floating about in this & the lower edge of -------Bourbon County.
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