E. H. Smith et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
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- Petition
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- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
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- BR16-98 to BR16-99
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2563
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Citation
E. H. Smith et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-2563 (November 13, 2026).
To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky
The Undersigned your petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excellency that Moses McClure of this County, enlisted as a soldier from this County on the [...] day of
Your petitioners would further represent that said McClure was the Father of Several little children when he enlisted in the Army — he was before he went in the Army an Ordinaryily peacable and quiet mancitizen, he is a poor man, Wolf has taken the family of McClure and left the state and has abandoned his Own family — That on the Judgment Indictment and has put him in Jail, where he is now confined — Your petitioners would state that whilst as a general
rule, they would not ask Your Excellency to interpose to relieve one from pending prosecution, Yet in the case of McClure, takeing into consideration his services to his country and the great injury Suffered by him, at the hands of Wolf, they think his is a case greatly demanding the interposition of Your Excellencys clemency
They Therefore most Respectfully ask Your Excellency to relieve said McClure from the pending prosecution against him, & relieve him from his imprisonment &c —
E. H. Smith
W. T. Simmons County Atty
J. F. Sheriff
W L Hume
J. S, Lucas
J P Stroud
W G Frank
James H Wilson
Thos Stroud
D L Cunningham J, P, G, C
S G Hutchinson
Jas A. Johnson
Jos Pack
Samuel Marksberry
W. C. Johnson
M Burnett p J. G. C. C
James pender
Moses Stephenson
B. Stewart. M. C.
B Wilson. J. G. C
Thos A. Franklin. C. G. C. C
W N Cason
Theo OHara
J F McIlvaine
B F Hodge
Jas M Hume
Jno H. Carter
Wm P Marksbury
M P Savage
N. H. Jeffers clk G Cir ct.
K G Carter D C [...]
J. W. Hutchison
K. W. Gouge
John H Readinower
B. F. Riggs
W, B, Riggs
B Harrison
T. J. Porter
Jas M Wilson
P T Linn
John W Linn
Charles E. Bracht
Albert Ackman
W N Simpson
Bennet Crook
Peter S Edwards
S. N Hensley
Harry Powell
j Ascraupt
H H Tully
Henry Stinman
Wm Morris
Morgan Bickers
Geo H Hume
W H Hume
John M Wilson M D
J W Jones
C. C. Lemmon
David Boyd
H. L. D Blanchet
M McDaniel
C. W. Conner
T. L. Clark
J D Lawless
Grant Cir Ct
vs
Moses McClure
Pardoned