B. N. Covington to Beriah Magoffin
1861-03-27
- Date of Creation
- March 27, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Bowling Green, Warren 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
- MG19-160
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0745
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209153
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- Dates
- 1861-03-27
Citation
B. N. Covington to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-27, 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-0001-020-0745 (November 13, 2026).
Bowling Green Ky
Hon B. Magoffin,
Gov. of Ky.
My dear Sir- The friends of Rufus Jones, now confined in the penitentiary at Frankfort for the killing of Henry Jenkins, believe his is a case in which it would be just & proper to interpose Executive clemency. It would be very gratifying to me & his numerous friends & family relatives if you can so view it. I am not familiar with the facts as proved in his trial, but from what I can learn it was one of those unpremeditated & impulsive acts, under the influence of exciting liquors & a boisterous crowd which the best men might sometimes commit. He certainly had no malice toward young Jenkins with whom he had, from childhood, been upon term of the most friendly & almost brotherly relations. His youth, his feeble constitution & his before that unstained reputation, together with the facts of the case & his very numerous & highly respectable connexions I hope will induce your Excellency to pardon him —
Very Respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
B. N. Covington