James McCampbell to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Jessamine County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- 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
- MG18-69 to MG18-70
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0371
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208779
- People
- McAfee, Allen L.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Campbell, George J.
- Wilmore, J. C.
- McCampbell, James H.
- Cook, John B.
- Harlan, John Marshall
- McCabe, John
- Metcalf, John
- Lowry, Melvin T.
- Smith, P. N.
- Noland, S.
- Mizner, Samuel Smith
- Crutcher, Thomas B,
- Clark, William
- Simms, William Emmett
- Daniel, William H.
- Dickerson, Woodson
- Places
- Jessamine County, Kentucky
Citation
James McCampbell to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0371 (December 12, 2025).
To his Excellency Beriah MaGoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your Petitioner James H McCampbell would respectfully represent that at the aen in the 8th Congressional District between Wm E Sims and J M Harlan, which said upon which anIndictment Bench warrant was issued on the
Your petitioner would represent that he is a law abiding man and has never before been indicted for any violation of law — wherefore he would pray your Excellency to exercise the power wisely vested in you by the Constitution, to release him from said Indictment and the fine thereunder — and will ever pray &c
Jas H McCampbell
The undersigned citizens of Jessamine County would most earnestly and respectfully join in the prayer of the foregoing petition —
Wm H Daniel
J B Cook
Jno Metcalf
W Clarke
J. G. Wilmore
A L McAfee
Geo. J. Campbell
M. T. Lowry clk. J. c. c.
Thos B,, Crutcher
S. Noland
P. H. Smith
J H W R Welch
W. Dickerson
Johns McCabe
S. S. Mizner
Betting
no judgmt