B. C. McChord to Unknown
- Place of Creation
- Springfield, Washington 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
- MG18-22 to MG18-23
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0335
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208743
- Places
- Springfield, Kentucky
- Organizations
- Washington County Jail
Citation
B. C. McChord to Unknown, 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-0001-020-0335 (November 12, 2026).
Springfield No 15
Dear Sir —
Mr. Cheser — who will hand you this letter — is the Father of the Youg man who is confined in our Jail for six months and fined fifty dollars for an offence which you will find at the head of the partition Signed by the Jury besides a number of other partitioners we only ask you to release the imprisonment by doing so You will confer — a favor on your Friend
B C McChord