Nannie Phillips to Beriah Magoffin
1861-04-29
- Date of Creation
- April 29, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Rochester, Butler 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
- MG19-511
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0954
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209362
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- Dates
- 1861-04-29
Citation
Nannie Phillips to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-04-29, 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-0001-020-0954 (November 13, 2026).
Rochester Ky
Hon Sir
Although I take My pen ^this^ morning to address You a I have no language rather no language in the English vocabulary that could portray ^my^ Situation and my feelings. I can only ask you once more to have mercy on me by reStoring my Husband J B Phillips. I ask you in the name of that God whos Mercy we must ^all^ Sooner or later crave. to have Mercy. One month from this time and his time will have expired
But by that time there May be a call from his Country for him and he may only be released in time to Say farewell an rush to the rescue of his Country in view of the Shortness of his time and Your promises to Father Downing and MySelf in view of the impending crises will you not release him in the courS of this or next week Oh let me See him one more and tell him of all My hopes and all fears
Rest Nannie Phillips
pease forward the enclosed to J B Phillips
Issue pardon
B. M