To his excellency Thomas E. Bramlete Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, May the Lord bless and prosper you as the Ruler of this state and grant to you and your family long bliss & happiness in this world and a free and safe admission to the [...] of eternal Glory — your humble petitioners are Mount Percifull 80 years of age — and Mary Percifull 66 years of age praying to be heard in behalf of their son James A, Percifull Our yo^u^ngest son who was Lieut captain in the Rebel Army the Lieut captain in whose behalf this suplication is made took the Amnesty oath of the President of the united states and hoped he would be permited to return home to his aged father & mother and 3 little motherless children, but our noon of joy was turned into night by the said James A. Percifull being indicted for treason against the state of Kentucky by the Knox Circuit Court and your petitioners pray your excellency to grant a pardon or amnesty to their son for the treasonable acts charged to have been comited against the state of Kentucky and enable your petitioners to see their child before they die & see witness the meeting between him & his little motherless

children, think governor how it Pearces our hearts as each day we hear thiese little ^ones^ prapttle the name of a mother dead and a father gone — Our son has erred but he has shed the blood of no man thank Heaven,! and he is honorable and just to all men but we repeat he has [...] the executive of the nation has forgiven him we belive the Lord has forgiven him and we think the sky of your excellency will not be the less clear when you come to die because you will enable us to say "this our Child was dead and is a live was lost & is found, Your petitioners live in Harlan County Ky

Mount Percifull
Mary Percifull } petinrs

we the undersigned citizens & neighbours of the petioners & their son believe the statements of the foregoing petition are true & pray to heard in behalf of the petitioners

Direct in haste
To Mount Percifull
Cumberland Ford Ky

Mount Percifull & Mary Percifull

J w J w Denham 17
w m Denham 18
ambros Miracle 19
Thomas N Miracle 20
James c Miracle 21
Elijah Greene 22
George Haskins 23
Joseph Purcifull 24
Hiram Hoskins 25
Woodard Lyttle
Wilkerson Purcifull
Zekiel Emrey
William Taylor
Wiliam Baker
William Purcifull
Henry Purcifull
John Chadwell
William Turner
C. B. Britton
George Turner
Asher Howard