Correspondence

W. B. Harrison to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-09-25

Date of Creation
September 25, 1865
Place of Creation
Elkton, Todd 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
BR15-387
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2438
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FTP Identifier
32205322

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Dates
1865-09-25
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W. B. Harrison to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-09-25, 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-0001-004-2438 (November 15, 2026).

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Elkton Ky Sept 25 1865
Hon Thomas E Bramlett
Frankfort
Dear Sir

I am aquainted with Mrs Elizabeth Gibson who was fined one hundred dollars at the April Term of the Todd Circuit Court,, She is quite old and infirm and has to labor in the field for a support,, and your friend B L Perkins wished me to make the above Statement to you, She is deserving of your Excellency Clemency and if you cannot remit her fine please give her a respite,, & time to make the formoney to pay said fine I was not present at the trial and know [nothin] of the testimony in the case

Truly years
W B Harrison

P S
If you remit said fine you will please Send it to my Care as she lives some ten miles in Country

W B H