Petition

Elihu Price et al. 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
BR17-118 to BR17-119
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2835
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32205719

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Dates
--02
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Elihu Price 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-0001-004-2835 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency
Thomas E Bramlett
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioners the undersigned would respectfully represent that at the February term of the Fleming Circuit Court James Weaver was found guilty of the offence of Horse Stealing and Sentenced to the Penitentiary for a term of four years under the following Circumstances Said Weaver was a Soldier in the 53D Regiment of Ky Volunteers of the Army of the United States and at home on furlow and while at home he took horses from what he termed Sympathizers with the rebellion and rode there about publickly alleging as a reason that the rebels had killed his horse while at meeting and that he had a right to appropriate the use of the horses of Sympathizers Said Weaver never disposed of any of the horses and always Considered an honest upright Young man We do not believe

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Said Weaver is a dishonest man neither do we believe he intended to Steal or that he was feloniously guilty of the offence for which he was sentenced We there fore recomend him to Executive favor Hoping your Excellency will interpose in his behalf and restore him to his friends believing as he is a very young man that he might yet be made a good Citizen We are very respect fully your Obt ^fellow^ Citizens —

Elihu Price Capt
7 Ky Cav Co H
Solomon P Herndon
Jeremiah Harvin
Michael Graves
G A Cord
F W Prater
Wm J. Cord
William F Price
James M. Price
C M. Roe
Thos. Stanfill
James B Ferguson
Francis Ferguson
William Burniss

Henry Cassidy
Wm H. H. Bentley
M. P. Wallingford ^capt^
Wm P. ODoherty 1st Sergt ^7 Ky Cav,^
Jas S Stuart
Isaac Hughes
Will R Nash
[...] Stuart
Elias A. Young
Wm S. [...]
P,, G,, Merrifield
J S Wrenchy
C J Prynes
A. B. Lowman
David Jolly
R S [Nash]
Richard Downy

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John Doyl
John Royse
Francis Jones
W. Griffith
James M Roberts
Hiram Roberts
Gordon Franklin
H, Purvis
E. W. Markwell
R Sutton
J T Jones
D F Carpenter
J S Nash
W F Jones
William [...]
J.. R.. [...]
Chandler Hunt
Miles Hurst
George Gulley
M H Jarvis
William griffith
Joseph Hicheson
S. J. Carpernter
Tolliver Grigsby
Howard M[...]
Marshal Dickenson
John P Paton
Richard R Carpenter
Lewis F Evans Capt Co E
39th Ky E M
W Berry
Charles Turner
Williams Collens
Walter W Hurst
Geo. E. Reeves

Samuel Mitchel
Samuel Mitchel ^Jun^

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Isaac Sapp
William Cassidy
John Stuart
John Sherwood
A. J. OBannon
Andrew. J. OBannon
Milton Williams
Henry Cassity
Jno. S. Hood
Chs. W. Rice
C. E. Proctor
C W Darnelle
W, R, Knight
David Adams
Y T Young
Moses Jackson
James Low
George H Cambell
Matheson Floyd
Joseph Jackson
G W Burgess
John L May
James F. Denton
W. M. Hammonds
John Sapp
J, C, Overley
O. H. Dewey
Samuel Gray
George H. Carnifex
M G Hammonds
J, N. Burk
Samuel H. Humphries
W [Burgess]