John Healy et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-07-29
- Date of Creation
- July 29, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Lebanon, Marion 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
- BR14-277 to BR14-278
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2080
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204965
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Citation
John Healy et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-07-29, 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-0001-004-2080 (November 14, 2026).
Lebanon Ky
To his Excellency Gov Bramlette:
Executive Mansion:
Frankfort
Ky.
Gov.
Your petitioners would esrespectfully represent to your Excellency that Joseph B Russell a citizen of this County has been indicted by the Marion Circuit Court as follows; For the offense of "Shooting with intentto Kill," alledged to have been committed on the person of Maurice Doody on the 1st day of August 1863; for the offense of Robbery, of the property of Geo. W. Graves alledged to have been Committed on the
is that he is and will continue to be a good quiet and orderly citizen — that if the offenses were committed as alledged, they were at a time when the country was convulsed with political & military troubles, being just after Morgans extensive raid through Kentucky, and when the Country was overrun with guerilla's, and that in energy and activity against marauders and guerillas he may have in some instances overstepped the bounds of propriety & law, but much should be allowed in his favor under all the Circumstances. He has been a zealous Union man. Your petitioners would ask — that in view of the Circumstances you would grant him a pardon for the offenses charged. They think it would not be improper, or mitigate against the good order and harmony of this county.
Jno. Healy M. D.
J. H. Graves
George W. Hughes
R, D, Scott
Matthew Vowels
Ed. Thompson
G W Hardesty
G G Beaven
Henry Mattingly
Joseph McCauly
James. R. Lamb
William Alvey
W. L. Young
W, R, Mitchell
H, P, Livers
T. J. Clark
J. H. Chandler
H H Carter
Garrett W Parsons
David Harding
B J Thompson
John.B. Thompson
J, M, Baumann
James Bicket
J W, Tyler
Lloyd Knott
Thos Mcatee
G, W, Craven Capt 6 Ky Cav
J. R. Thomas.
Jams. H [Fidler] Capt. [...]
Marion Cir Ct
vs
Jos R. Russell
Pardoned
(4 Indictments