Bowling Green Kentucky
January 26. 1864
C F Burnam Esqr
& Col P B Hawkins
My Friend.

I have written 4 or 5 letters to you, Explaining, among other things, that the opinion of Judges Graham & Looing, is, that my Pardon @ Washington cannot be plead in bar against the Indictment filed against me in the Warren ^criminal^ Circuit, which comes on, on Monday Next; hence the uneasiness & anxiety which I feel, you will therefore, pardon me for Troubling you so often, the imergency of the case is my excuse. Will you make one more, Effort with Gov^r Bramlett & write me the result at once, that I may prepare for the worst. I have not been able to assertain what has been done with the Paper sent to M^cDowell U. States Marshall, do not know ^as the Federal & State courts come on the same day^ but that about the time I may prepare to appear in court here, that I may be summoned or arrested, to go to Louisville- If any thing can done for me, will you pleas ^act for^ relieve me, that my mind (& that of my wife) may be relieved.- Your attention will place me under renewed obligations. With Sentiments of the highest regard your friend

John Burnam