James P. McGoodwin and Will H. Miller to Beriah Magoffin
1861-02-21
- Date of Creation
- February 21, 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-148
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0073
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208483
Citation
James P. McGoodwin and Will H. Miller to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-21, 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-0001-020-0073 (November 12, 2026).
Princeton Ky
Dear Govenor,
Enclosed, we send you some affidavits & documents, which relate to the case of Thomas B. Wadlington, and which were sent to us, while in Frankfort, but we left before they reached Ft — We are satisfied that the papers, are of such importance, that they would have had quite an influence on your mind, We have evry confidence in your Excellency & hope you will review the papers & come to a more favorable conclusion. Gen'l Wadlington & Col Calvert are now in F — & expected to find the enclosed papers in your P. O. Please inform them of your reception of the documents.
We wait with great impatience the action of the Peace Congress, & do not expect any good to come out of it — Present our regards to your daughter Miss Sue,
With high esteem we remain
your friends
J. P. McGoodwin