Joshua Dunn to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-05-06
- Date of Creation
- May 6, 1864
- 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
- BR10-285
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0833
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203720
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Citation
Joshua Dunn to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-05-06, 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-0001-004-0833 (November 14, 2026).
To his excellency Thomas E Bramlitt Govr of Kentucky I brought ^Several^ suits against G. W. Alford for selling whisky to Negroes he hired or kept my witnesses away I got but one tried I attemped to present him to the Grand Jury he got the witnesses out of the way we tried one case the Jury fined him fifty dollars and cost I am told he is a getting a petition to get his fine remitted I do not know what his plea is but he is selling to every Negro that applies as I will convince you when I get my cases all up I will attempt to get him before the Grand Jury again his object is to keep the Witnesses away but I will summons this Summer to be in time
Yours truly
Joshua Dunn
J. Dunn's Letter