To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Govorner of Kentucky

Your petitioner begs leave respectfully to state that he is a citizen & resident of Allen County Kentucky, where he was born and raised — Under the excitement of the times in the autumn of 1861 he joined the Confederate Army at Bowling Green, enlisting for one year in the Regiment then commanded by Joseph H Lewis of Barren, being the 6^th Ky — After my time expired I was anxious to return home and to live as a quiet, orderly and good citizen of the Commonwealth, and made more than one effort to do so, but was told by citizens that I would not be permitted to remain at home, but would be exchanged or sent to prison. I was unfortunately along when a party of soldiers under the command of a Lieutenant commissioned as such in the regular service of the Confederate army, sent out by Gen^l Wheeler as scouts with a detail from several regiments entered Scottsville in July 1863. His object in going to Scottsville was to capture the Federal forces there & any public property which might be there situated I was not with the party when the firing took place at the Hospital & had no agency in that matter, nor did I participate in taking any property, but on the contrary discountenanced and discouraged the whole thing. One Federal soldier was killed, as I learned, at the Hospital by the name of Siper as I was informed. For this killing of a Federal soldier done

not by me but by the soldiers under command of said Lieutenant, I have been indicted in the Allen Circuit Court for murder. Two indictments were also found against me for Robbery founded upon the taking of the property above named & in which I did not participate or sympathise. I was, for some time confined at Bowling Green in the military prison & was finally turned over to the civil authorities to answer said indictments. I was allowed by the Circuit ^County^ Judge of Allen to give bail in all the Cases — have done so and since April 1864 have been at liberty. I feel conscious that I am not guilty of the Charges in either indictment & that I ought not to be punished therefor. I have made no attempt to escape & do not intend to but will meet the Cases whenever tried. Since my release on Bail I have lived as a quiet peacable & orderly citizen, obeying the laws of my state in every respect — I expect so to continue.

I herewith send a copy of the evidence given on my application for Bail taken down by Cap^t G M Mulligan of Allen — I trust your excellency will see grounds to grant me a pardon of said offences charged against me, and I assure you there shall be no cause for you or others to afterwards think your confidence or leniency has been misplaced

Most Respectfully

Frank Porter

This day Frank Porter personally appeared before me and made oath that the statements made

by him in the foregoing petition are true, witness my hand this 7 day of Feby 1865

E D Garrison J. P. A. C.

The undersigned citizens of Allen & Warren Counties state that we have long known M^r Frank Porter who signed the foregoing petition, ^up to his joining the confederate army^ He has always borne the reputation of a strictly honest man, and up to the time of his joining the Confederate Army his conduct as a good citizen was unexceptionable. He was raised in Allen County, where, and in Warren, his family, a large and most respectable one, have always lived. For the last year he has lived in Allen & has conducted himself as a good citizen

E D Garrison
A. S. Walker
G. M. Mulligan
S B Hollis
S. B. Brown
C C Stark
Benjamin Pulliam
C.. D.. J. Stark
John S. Godley
A. J. Johnson
T. W. Mitchell
S A Barclay
John Burnam