Petition

William May to Thomas E. Bramlette

Document Genre
Petition
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
BR16-370 to BR16-372
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2718
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FTP Identifier
32205602

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Dates
1862
1865-11-10
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Citation

William May 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-0001-004-2718 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner William May states that in the fall of the year 1862 and shortly after Genl Bragg with his Confederate forces ^left Ky^ one of Col Woolfords Company, John W Gully pressed a horse of Cyrus Saunders of Garrard county to go to his regiment near Stanford Ky. He was pursued by Saunders & others and was taken with a writ for Larceny, and the officer of the regiment gave him up to the Civil authorities and he was brought to and put in the Garrard county jail, where he remained for several weeks, when on a pledge he would go to his regiment and continue in the service, your Petitioner became his bail for $150 for his appearance at court, which he attended once or twice and the case was not ready, and finally without fault on the part of your Petitioner, he failed to attend, and the bail bond was forfieted, and is now in judgment. Your Petitioner in his desire to see

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the Federal service prosper, (being an unconditional Union man) he has involved himself as surety aforesaid, and asks that so much of the judgment above named as is in the power of Executive Clemency be remitted

William May

We the undersigned are well acquainted with the Petitioner, and recommend him to Executive Clemency.

G. W. Dunlap
W. H. Whurell
N Sandifer
John W Letcher
W D Hopper clerk Garrard Circuit Court
Wm H. Kinnaird

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To His Excellency
Thomas E Bramlette Esq
Frankfort
Ky.

Garrard Cir Ct
vs
Wm May
$150
Forfeiture
Remitted 10th Nov/65