To His Excellency Gov^r T. E. Bramlette
Sir

The undersigned respectfully represent that they were, during the late rebellion, officers in the Army of the United States, and were at different times stationed on the Sandy River and in the adjacent country. They had full opportunity from their official positions of becoming fully acquainted with many of the Citizens of that part of Kentucky

They represent, (what is already doubtless well-known to your Excellency) that the late war, assumed in the Mountains a character of sanguinary personal strife, unknown in the more favored portions of the State. that private quarrels were avenged under the guise of military operations, and individual malice wreaked by parties acting ostensibly as soldiers.

They represent to your Excellency that ElijahPatrick (now a senator of this Commonwealth) was together with his brothers, particularly odious to Guerrillas and other lawless bands. That especially was he so to the Harrises, a family formerly residing in Prestonsburg Ky.

That Elija Patrick was captured by Jack (or A. J) Harris and a party, and ordered by said Harris to immediate death in cold blood, and would have inevitably been put to death had not an unexpected

attack by Reuben Patrick, enabled him to make his escape. That the life of Elijah Patrick was in constant and eminent peril from s^d Harris — his property plundered and destroyed and his safety continually endangered. That it was a matter of public notoriety that whenever they met that one or the other must die

That being so hunted, harrassed, plundered and broken up by s^d Harris, and feeling a constant apprehension of death at the hands of Harris, Elijah Patrick did shoot and Kill said Harris. For which shooting and Killing Elijah Patrick now stands indicted in the Circuit Court of Johnson County Kentucky —

The facts above cited are notoriously public and well Known in the vicinity of Prestonsburg.

These petitioners therefore, in view of the Circumstances, and the aggravating and inj[...]urious deportment of Harris and his endeavors to take the life of Patrick do pray that your Excellency will pardon said Patrick and release him from said indictment — Witness our hands at Frankfort Kentucky this 4^th day December 1865.

Jno Mason Brown
late Colonel 45^th Ky Mt^d Infy
Orlando Brown Jr.
late Lieut Col 14^th Ky Vol Inf

W J Worthington
Late Lt Col 22^nd Ky Regt
John D Russell
Late Maj 54^th K Vols
B, S, Shepherd
C. A. Wood ^late^ Capt
Co D 14^th Ky V. I.
D W Lindsey
Lat Col^o 22^nd Ky Vol Infty

Johnson Cir Ct
vs
Elijah Patrick
Indicted for shooting & killing Jack or A J. Harris
Pardoned 4^th Dec/65