W. D. Newman to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-09-10
- Date of Creation
- September 10, 1864
- Place of Creation
- Metcalfe 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
- BR11-379
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1223
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204110
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- Dates
- 1864-09-10
Citation
W. D. Newman to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-09-10, 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-0001-004-1223 (November 14, 2026).
Rockland Mills
To His Excelency
Thomas E Bramlet
Dear Sir
I enclose herein a petition for the release of a fine agaist Preston W. Lee Lee lives within two miles of my residence he is a poor fieble old man I suppose about sixty he lives in an out the way place and has been looked upon ^as^ a quiet peacable neighbor do not recollet of ever hearing him charged with selling liquor at all untill this case come up which is said to have been brought up from spite as I understand from him and others a few young men in these war times stoped at his house one day and got their dinner for which he only charged them a dime and ^charged^ for some liquor ^also^ under the circumstances I would like to have the old
man released respectfully yours
W. O. Newman