Correspondence

Sebastian Eifant to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-07-26

Date of Creation
July 26, 1865
Place of Creation
Boone Furnace, Carter 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
BR14-281 to BR14-282
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2082
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32204967

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1865-07-26
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Sebastian Eifant to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-07-26, 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-0001-004-2082 (November 14, 2026).

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Boone Furnace Carter County
Ky July 26" 1865
His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlett
Govaner of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Sir

Last winter Wm L James and a man by the name of Shiens, where both convicted from Louisville and send to the State prison for same offence committed in Louisvile Louisville, both where members of Company C. 20th Ky V. I. and had again reenlisted in said Regt as Veterans Skiens was sometime ago released from Prison, But W. L. James is still confined, as his father on account of ill health, has not till now done anything in his behalf and is very poor but a man good Citizen of our County I would respectfully represent to your Excellency that the son deserving executive clemency for his services he has rendered in the Armey, and on account of his father & Mother who are old and

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greatley afflicted in consequence would ask you respectfull that said James be pardoned and released from confinement

Yours very Respectfull
Sebastian Eifant