Correspondence

J. H. Bristow to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-05-19

Date of Creation
May 19, 1865
Place of Creation
Louisville, Jefferson 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
BR13-465 to BR13-466
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1890
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32204777

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1865-05-19
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J. H. Bristow to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-05-19, 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-0001-004-1890 (November 14, 2026).

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Louisville May 19th 1865
His Excellency.
Thos. E. Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky
Sir.

This letter will be handed you by Miss Mitchell a young lady of high standing in this city. She comes to lay before your Excellency a petition in behalf of her Brother Edward Mitchell who was recently convicted of manslaughter in our Circuit Court.

I would say to you that Edward Mitchell was a private in the Louisville Legion, andfoughtlikea hero and was remarkable for his quiet and orderly deportment. For three years I knew him well, and can cheerfully testify to his worth as a soldier. He did his duty in every battle in which the proud old Legion participated, He is a kind hearted boy, and bitterly regrets what he has done. I am persuaded he will never again suffer himself to be ensnared by that common enemy strongdrink, I believe he will yet make a good citizen, and if you can see you way clear to interpose executive clemency it will gladden the hearts of his distressed relatives, and put a brave and heroic youth in a position to redeem the past I most respectfully ask a pardon for him.

Yours truly J H, Bristow
Late Chaplain Louisville Legion