Petition

James R. Duval et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Barren County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Petition
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
BR12-407
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1557
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204444

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Dates
1865-03
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Citation

James R. Duval et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-1557 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizns of Barren County State that James James a young ^man^ and citizen of said county. Was tried at the present March term of the Barren county Circuit Court 1865. for arson and found Guilty and a judgment rendered against him to be confined in the penitentiary for five years. the charge was that he attempted to burn a house in said county. Said James had just been honerably discharged by reason of his time expiring as a member of the 37th Ky mounted infantry, we are his neighbos and know him, his character has heretofore been good as any young man in our country, and we learn that when he committed said offence that he was drunk, and we can only account for his conduct from that cause, we are informed and believe it, that at the time he so acted he was on his way to Louisville to rejoin the army, under these circumstances we most earnestly. ask that your Excellency would grant him a full pardon for said offince

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James. R. Duval
L. K. Steffey
Charles henderson
micager Colman
James Crawhorn
z izac redford
Robert Jaiams Crawhorn
vincen low
daved low
James low
frankling low
H G W Boatman
Carter ^x^ Wilther
nat ^x^ wilther
W W duff
ton ^x^ green
J. W. Smith
S. J. Boatman
E. M. Button
W L Johnston
W G Rotter
E. M. Duval
H G Duval