Correspondence

D. W. McGoodwin to J. P. McGoodwin and W. H. Miller

1861-02-12

Date of Creation
February 12, 1861
Place of Creation
Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG17A-141
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0068
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FTP Identifier
32208478
People
Magoffin, Beriah
McGoodwin, David W.
McGoodwin, James P.
Miller, William H.
Smith, [Unknown]
Places
Princeton, Kentucky
Trigg County, Kentucky
Organizations
Trigg County Court
Dates
1861-02-12
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D. W. McGoodwin to J. P. McGoodwin and W. H. Miller, 1861-02-12, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 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-0001-020-0068 (November 12, 2026).

[Page 1]

Princeton 12th Feby 1861.
J. P. McG & W. H. Miller.

We send you by this mail about 20 affidavits as you will see several on the same paper. It seems from the character of the affiants, that it ought to work a full pardon. If need be I suppose perhaps 100 of a similar kind can be procured — public sentiment has setled down, that the killing is Justifiable. Should it be necessary to have others we can procure them. any difficulty on the mind of the Gov. can be removed, if we knew what the difficulty is.

The Trigg Court comes on monday next we have several cases there and I cannot go. can you be here in time to be there by the middle of the week — Times are getting tighter every day — all well.

Yrs
D. W. McGoodwin (over)

[Page 2]

We understand, that a great many of the remonstrants are infants, and afts can be furnished, that there are three idiots on one of them, and one mixed blood, and an indefinite number of boys, and persons out of the County one of the idiots is said to be Smith of Trigg County.

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