Correspondence

John W. McWhorter to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-08-11

Date of Creation
August 11, 1865
Place of Creation
Springfield, Washington 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
BR15-46 to BR15-47
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2229
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32205113

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Dates
1865-08-11
1865-03-17
1865-03-15
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John W. McWhorter to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-08-11, 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-0001-004-2229 (November 15, 2026).

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Springfield Ky
August 11th. 1865.
His Excellency Gov Thomas E Bramlette
Frankfort Ky
Sir,

I arrested Milton B, Cox on the 17th day of March 1865, at the widow Powell's on Casey Creek in Adair County, for a charge of robbery commited upon the person or property of George W Walker. For this Same charge he was tried and convicted and Sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. On the fifteenth of Said March, myself in company with Several others

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Walker being one of the number, met Said Milton B Cox ^and others^ upon the public road, and Some one of the party remarked that one of their horses tracks Suited the description of the tracks we haved been following, when[...] whereupon I proposed to arrest them, but Mr Walker Said that if these were the horses, they were not the men

The prejudice against union men in that Section is so high that I believe he was convicted upon that prejudice and not upon the evidence. I recruited two of his brothers and they are now in Captain Cozine's company, and I can truly say that two better behaved or more honest men never belonged to any company and Captain Cozine will Say the same for them. His father came to this country in March 1863.

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a union refugee from Georgia, and no man has been a better citizen than he, Since he came to Kentucky. I reccommend him to your favor

Very Respectfully Your
Ob'd't Serv't John. W. McWhorter