O. F. Stirman to Beriah Magoffin
1862-06-30
- Date of Creation
- June 30, 1862
- 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
- MG23-407
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1957
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210365
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- Dates
- 1862-06-30
Citation
O. F. Stirman to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-06-30, 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-0001-020-1957 (November 13, 2026).
Louisville Ky
Honl B. McGagoffin
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you a petition of John Nelsen and one of his neighbors praying you to remit the fine of $20 or ten days imprisonment, shown by the Copy of proceeding accompaning the petition I earnestly desire you to remit this fine a great outrage has been inflicted on this old man He was taken and [hurried] off from home; the officer refused to summon his witnesses by whom he could have shown that he did nothing wrong
Esqr T Conn who was at the trial & signs the petition says Esqr Conner who tried the case did very wrong. Nelsen after the trial made application for a new trial but Conner refused him, telling him to take an appeal to the County Court
Nelson is charged with Southern right proclivities and therefore the unbecoming haste
and prejudice I have taken pains to inform myself in relation to this trial and am satisfied that Nelsen did nothing more than he should have done. I saw his wife a day or two after the occurance and her face was very much bruised from the blows Gilliland gave her. You will do an act of Justice by remitting the fine & imprisonment.
Your Friend
O, F, Stirman