Correspondence

B. M. Burdett to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-03-07

Date of Creation
March 7, 1864
Place of Creation
Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR6-34
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-006-0032
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206437
People
Burdett, Benjamin M.
Middleton, Henri F.
Smith, James H.
Harrison, Robert
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Places
Chillicothe, Missouri
Kentucky
Lancaster, Kentucky
Missouri
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Dates
1864-03-07
1864-03-08
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B. M. Burdett to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-03-07, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 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-0001-006-0032 (November 12, 2026).

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Lancaster Ky March 7th 1864
To His Excellency Governor Thos E. Bramlette:

I send you a copy of the indictment agt James H. Smith and the warrant for his arrest. Mr Robert Harrison of Chillicothie Missouri is the man I want commissioned as this states agent to receive and bring Smith to this state. I want you to offer a reward of $500. if you can consestently if you cannot offer that amount you will please say to Mr Harrison in your letter to him that I will pay him the difference between your offer and the $500. Please forward the requisition immediately as I deem it important to secure Smith arrest.

Respectfully
B M Burdett

P.S.

Ask the editor of the Commonwealth not to publish the reward for two weeks from the time you start requisition

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Missouri
Requisition for Jas H. Smith

Order that a Reward of $300 ifbe offered
send coms[...] as directed & with the offer of Mr Burdett.

T. E Bramlette
8th March 1864