Milton Sheffer to Beriah Magoffin
1861-06-04
- Date of Creation
- June 4, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Cairo, Henderson 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
- MG21-25 to MG21-26
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1191
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209599
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- Dates
- 1861-06-04
Citation
Milton Sheffer to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-06-04, 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-0001-020-1191 (November 13, 2026).
Cariro, Ky
Mr Gov your Excellency and honor I was Sent to the states prison for tow years on the charge of fogery and surved my time out faithfuly which you can find out if you enquire of of the keepers and this is the county that I was sent from and it is my home as long as I live my pairents are both living her and if it be in your power to restore me to my sitisen ship dow it for gods sake I have volienteerd to fight for the union and I am a union man and I wil vote for the union my Cairriacter is good her which I can prove by a petition if it be nessary I am a young man 24 years old it has been 4 months and beter sence I left Frankfort so pleas let me her what you will do
Yours truly
Milton Sheffer
Shiffers case
Peny.