John Kitchen 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
- BR42-167
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-3329
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- FTP Identifier
- 32206099
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Citation
John Kitchen 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-0001-004-3329 (November 14, 2026).
To his Excellency Thos E Bramlett
Your Petitioner being desirous of returning to my mother I have called upon her and my friends to intercede for me with you I acknowledge that I did a Great wrong in leaving her but it was not possible for me to see then what I now see nor was I capable of resisting the force that was then brought against me for my destruction but I now see and feel and I am constrained and now call upon you to pardon me and I will promise you a better account for the future of my life
Humbly yours
John Kitchen
Pardon offence
& return the
$2.-