Correspondence

P. A. Wainwright and James M. Childress to Unknown

1865-09-23

Date of Creation
September 23, 1865
Place of Creation
Monroe 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
BR15-326
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2395
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205279

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Dates
1863-12-14
1865-03-12
1865-03-12
1865-09-23
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P. A. Wainwright and James M. Childress to Unknown, 1865-09-23, 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-0001-004-2395 (November 15, 2026).

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To all whom it may Concern Know ye, that William B Deckerd a private of Captain James M Childress's Company (I) 52 Regment of Kentucky Mtd Infantry volunteers who was enrolled on the Fourteenth day of December One Thousand eight hundred and sixty three to serve One year as during the war is hereby Discharged from the Service of the United States this Twelfth day of March 1865 at Bowlinggreen Kentucky by Reason of time of Service having expired

(No objection to his being remitted is Known to Court)

Said William B Deckerd was born in Jackson County in the State of Tennesse is Twenty Eight years of age five feet ten inches high dark Complexion dark eyes dark hair and by Ocupation when enrolled a farmer given at Bowlinggreen Ky this Twelfth day of March 1865

P,, A,, Wainwright
Capt B U S Infr
Mustering officer
James M Childress
Capt Co (I) 52d Ky vol

State of Kentucky
Monroe County

I L A Smithwick Clerk of said County Certify that the above is a true Copy of the discharge of Willm B Deckerd &c From under my hand this 23 dy of Sept 1865

L A Smithwick Clk
Monroe County Crt

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W B Decker
To } Copy Discharge