Petition

L. L. Talbotts et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Webster County, Kentucky
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
BR42-204 to BR42-207
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3354
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Dates
--03
1865-08
1865
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L. L. Talbotts 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-0001-004-3354 (November 15, 2026).

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A Coppy From Union Co
To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlett
Gov of Kentucky

At the Last March term of the Webster Circuit Court J C Stevens and Harrison Edmunson Were both Indicted in the Webster Circuit Court for robing S B- Wallace and B. P Wallace in August 1865

Now we the undersigned citizens of the county of Webster and Union Counties without regard to party or polatics have Learned with regrett that an application has been made to your Excellency for their pardon Signed by Sundrie citizens of Critenden and other counties We donot know what Special Grounds they rely upn for clemency We would therefore represent to your Excelency that J C Stevens was a Union Soldier during a portion of the war and that Edmonson was a rebbell soldier or Guerrilla Neither were Soldiers at the time of the alleged rebery that both of the Wallaces were Southern men in their feelings They would state that S B and B P. Wallace were not the only men robed in Webster County but that not less than Twenty persons were robed during the Summer and fall of 1865 without regard to party and that in the night time and by parties who were often in diguise These reberies were so prevalent that no man felt safe and in fact none were safe we would therefore beg of Your Excelency to withhold or reserve the proposed pardon (if your Excelency is disposed to grant it) untill a Jury passes on the merit

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- of their Several cases they may be acquited by a Jury if so no pardon will be needed if they are found guilty then your Excelency can pardon them if you deem it just to do so we fear that a pardon at so early a stage of presecution would rather embolden other men by creating the belief that it is an easy thing to procure a pardon Whereas if they are convicted and then pardoned it causes them to feel as if they had made a narrow escape and will have a better effect on the parties pardoned as well as other evil doers After they shall have been convicted if they should be Your Excelency will have learned more about the Merits of the case and will in all probability be better advised in the premises than at present

L L Talbotts
C T Metcalfe
Alex Barrett
George Davis
James Robison
J H Rudy
E A Anderson
George.R. Evans
Will,, L, Pierson
Thos.. J.. Nash
Jno M Dyer
A. J. M. Thompson
J W Bohannon
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J. A. Bell
G W Gregory
J T Pierson
James Kerney
A. B. Brightman
George B Simpson
T B Clore
T. H. Metcalfe
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Jas M Scandland
E. Murray
Geo. W. Beasley
J D Hudson
Marry Blake
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Edward Rice

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John Smallwood
L. C. Collins
James Was Collins
Richar q hawkins
James F Bass
Frank henry
Samuel Tour
Joseph Bass
John E. Orr
William Margelin
Chas A Marymore
A.. M.. Ringo
J. M. Holsclaw
Theodor Harlow
T. S.. Harris
S. D Holsclaw
John Morgan Hall
J. T. Carter
E. H. Martin
Wm Cowan
Joseph Eunales
Lewis Davis
W B [...]
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John T Jones
J. A. Taylor
W. T. Arnold
John Galen 59

W D Springer
W. R. Tate
Jas. F. Smith
B F S A strodd
Columbus Potts
Jonathan S Lambert
Henry J Lynn
Jeremiah Hammad
Henry Hammack
Lewis Hammack
J T Hawkins
S H C Springer
F J. Townsend
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J. Reasor
Isaac Beam
Thos D Owen
Wm Reasor
W. M. Carr
J. T. onan
G M Lindle
W L Henry
J A Otley
J F Gilmore

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Barley Cowan
Eli Cowan
Stephen Heddy
James davis
S a hand
J. W. Lindle
Wesley Hughes
John McGraw
Joseph M Grane
J C Cerndon
John Kiernan
Mrs Naraway
C H Gilchrist
Will Dyer
S O Branham
Geo Cunningham
C. G. Mattingly
Wm H Rice
R Couch
Philip Acker
B F Perkins
Eli Marble
B H Menifee
Marsh Dyer
Wm Narroway
W M Winstead
Geo. W. Porter M. D.
John Washam
G. H. Whitecotton
Josiah Bience
E. H. Bennett 102

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Lewis Foster
Saml produre
B. Ritck
Geo W. Davis
P C Mott
John Martin
Louis Potts
M C Christian
George. S.. James
S.. C.. Sullivant
Charles Suelvant
Peter Z Goodwin
J. T. Givens
Thomas Hammack
William Hammack
John. G. Christian
Daniel Hammack
Joel F Carter
Enoch A Paul
M L Martin
J M Lipford
J H Arnold
Wm. Maberry
J. W. Owens
J R Cowen
Bluford Potts
N E Potts
John Brinson
James H Brinson
John T Brinson
William H Brinson

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Webster Co
John Skinner
Joseph Skinner
George Imboden
Stephen. C, Williams.
B D Skinner
J. W. Mitchell
B. D. Vaughn
J. W. Vaughn
Jesse Vaughn
J. W. Skinner
James B. Skinner
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B F Price
Thomas Vaughn
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John Dillbeck
Isaac Watson
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Joseph Fauquier
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J R Cargill
F. M. Shadley
J K Givens
T F Holeman
T. J. Shelton
T J White
T. H. Kyle
Geo M Davidson
Wm White
T. K. Newman
H Curry
John Brown
Wm Tapp
Jacob. Curry
John A. Hutchings
Albert Butler
Tho H Brooks
B A Lugg Henderson Co.
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John Balison
W. D. Bailey
R. M. Curnel
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Webster Co
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James blackwell "
W. T. Vaughan "
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J. H. Parker
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James Barr Hopkins Co
S. H. Williams
H. H. Brooks
W D Harman
W F Short
N D Martin
R A Givens
B. D. Winstead
B Curry
Isaac Baker
S W Gilmore
James Skinner
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Thomas W Chandler
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