Petition

Robert Thomas 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
BR42-122 to BR42-123
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3297
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206075

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Robert Thomas 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-0001-004-3297 (November 14, 2026).

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We the undersigned acquaintances neighbors and fellow County men of Joseph Short and John Harding would most respectfully state to his Excy Thos E. Bramlette Govr of Ky that we have long known said Short and Harding that they have always been men of honesty and integrity and we never know or heard of any charges against them that did violence to their good reputation until the charge made against them by one John. R. Redman= We therefore join with them in their prayer for pardon of the alleged crime of Robbery as prayed for by them in their Petition= Respectfully &c

Robert Thomas
I G Campbell
Dr. Wm L Turner
Jno T Melburn
R A Burton
J. B. McWhorter S. G. C
J. B. Beames D. S.
R. Davis
J. C. Sympson
Jas. Jones
W. E. Parrott
N E Teter

Wm G Dearen
John W Wallis
George C Sympson
W. B.Carlile
J. H. Chandler
[...][...]
Wm Cloyd
Thos. E. Cowherd
Green Forrest
J. R. Thomas
B. Spalding

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F B. Merimee
John.C. Maxwell

I believe the charges against Tate Short and Harding to be utterly false. I have known them for years-

James M Fisher
cap Pw [...]