Correspondence

V. Finnell to Beriah Magoffin

1861-06-10

Date of Creation
June 10, 1861
Place of Creation
Verona, Boone County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG5-146 to MG5-147
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-019-0077
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32208331
People
Magoffin, Beriah
Davis, Garrett
Finnell, Vardiman
Places
Boone County, Kentucky
Verona, Kentucky
Organizations
Kentucky Home Guard
Dates
1861-06-10
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Citation

V. Finnell to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-06-10, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-019-0077 (January 23, 2026).

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Verona Boone Co Ky June 10th 61
Hon B Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
Sir:

Having formed a company of "Home Guards" at this place I desire to know if yYour Excellency can furnish it with arms. It is a cavalry company numbering about fifty effective men. The officers were not elected in accordance with the provisions of the Military Bill, but will be if it is possible to obtain arms. Our exposed condition here on the border, subject as we are to the violence of mobs from the other side of the river, makes it necessary that the company should be armed as soon as possible.

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Also, because Garrett Davis and other "Union shrieking", submissions abolition Lincolnites are receiving arms from their master we disire to be armed.

Please answer.

Yours very resp—

V. Finnell. Capt
Verona
Ky

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Arms—

Sec will answer all arms have been distributed to which Home Guard are entitled —