Correspondence

Sam. C. Hughes to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-04-23

Date of Creation
April 23, 1864
Place of Creation
Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR10-4 to BR10-5
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0654
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1864-04-23
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Sam. C. Hughes to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-04-23, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0654 (November 14, 2026).

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SAM. C. HUGHES
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MORGANFIELD, KY.


Will practice in the Courts of Union and the adjoining Counties. All Collecting Business promptly attended to.

Morganfield, Ky.
April 23 1864
Gov. Bramlette
Dr Sir

Enclosed you find the petition of some of our very best citizens & officers, signed in behalf of a loyal, and law abiding old Gentleman Mr Joseph Sprague is the entire owner of the tavern. He will have the whole amount to pay, unless you in your clemency remit it.

Mr Sprague is one of the tried loyal men of the county, an old gentle man of unexceptional character, and would

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have been the last man in Union County to knowningly violate the laws of the land.

My uncle W G Hughes was county judge, just previous to the expiration of his license, and after his death, and before my election to the office, Mr Sprague made application at a regular term of the County Court and was assured, by the acting clerk, that his application under the circumstances was sufficient and to go on in his business

Be tween that and the time of my election which was only 6 days, he was afterwards indicted

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for keeping a tipling house.

The very ^1st term^day I was I held he obtained license.

It would indeed be a hardship to permit this fine to be collected by capias profine under the circumstances

These facts of course could not go to the jury

Yours &c
Sam C Hughes

P S. Mr Thos S Chapman was the county clerk at the time, and he has signed as you will perceive the petition

Yours &c S C H