Louisville Nov 3^rd 1863

Govner Bramlet your honer & Excelency: I William Walker have bin Tried & Convicted to the Penitenicrey for one year & it is my first ofence So I can onley Recomend my Self to tyour kind mercy to be pardoned. I am a member of the twentey fourth Ohio vols & have bin true to my cuntreys laws & have nobely discharg^ed^ my duty as a Soldier for the period of to years & allso I have a widoed Mother to mantain whoom it greavs my heart with horer to part with noing that I am the only one in this world for her to depend on for assistance your honer I can stat to you veary plainley the reason why I am in this Sad & disgrasfull State it is not because I natuerley posesed a felonious disposition but becas I hav bin deprived of & Seperatid from thos kind

friends that instruced me & hav bin led astray by inteligent men whouse influince & wickid temtations & vises & enticing habits have at length brought me to my ruin and I thank providence that I hav bin detected in this my first offence and brought to acount for it at the hands of Justice- how it greavs me when I think that onley twelve months ago I was [...] with honesty and piety & was blesed with the qualities of eney society & now to think that I am incarcerated in this contemtible prison & found guilty & convicted of a greavious & felonious Crime Deprived of two years liberty and sentanced to a glumey sell to dwell with the the veary demons of wickedness and outlaws of the world is this my dome., your honer I pray not!

William Walker
Co, B, 24th Reg. O. V

Jefferson county

Pardon Refused

Tho E Bramlette