Charles S. Morehead to Beriah Magoffin
1861-03-26
- Date of Creation
- March 26, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson 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
- MG19-208 to MG19-209
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0777
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209185
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- Dates
- 1861-05-26
Citation
Charles S. Morehead to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-26, 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-0001-020-0777 (November 13, 2026).
LAW NOTICE.
C. S. MOREHEAD,
Late of Frankfort, Ky.
C. M. BRIGGS,
Late of Bowling Green, Ky.
MOREHEAD & BRIGGS,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
OFFICE: JEFFERSON STREET, BETWEEN CENTRE AND FIFTH.
MESSRS. MOREHEAD & BRIGGS will practice Law in partnership, in the Courts held in the City of Louisville, and in the Appellate and Federal Courts held in Frankfort. In the absence of one a retainer of either will secure the attention of both.
Prompt Attention given to the Collection of Claims.
Louisville, Ky.,
Dear Governor,
There will be an application made to you to pardon Rufus Jones recently convicted by the Warren Circuit Court of Manslaughter. I know nothing of the merits of the petition further than I can gather from the papers which will be presented to you, but I have been long acquainted with the family connexion, and from their high social position and unblemished character for integrity, I feel a lively and deep sympathy for the young man, and most sincerely hope that you may find sufficient reasons to justify you in granting him a pardon_ I think under all the circumstances, you would do right to do so
Respectfully
C S Morehead
Gov Morehead