Petition

Samuel G. Wall et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Petition
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
MG25-77 to MG25-78
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2319
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FTP Identifier
32210719

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Samuel G. Wall et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-2319 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency
B Magoffin
Govr of Ky

The undersigned citizens of Union County Respectfully ask your Excellency to pardon Vincent Shields now confined in the Penitentiary of this state under sentence of the Union Equity & Criminal Court

Mr Shields is an old man and we are informed is in feeble health; and has lost the sight of one Eye since his Confinement And has a large and helpless family of young children dependent on him for a support & Education We trust it will meet with your views of Executive Clemency to Pardon him

Names
Saml g Wall
Milton Young
L. D. Barber
Daniel Stone
Thos Courney
W F Berry
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...] Wedding
John H. Wall
H. M Harris

Names
W. F. Holem Jr
Richard Buren
A C Wallace
J W Hammonds
E Hobbs
Isaac Beauchamp
J. B. Drury
John C. Walker
[...]. Hopwood
Wm W. Northcott
Jas M Hancock
Caleb Tucker
Enoch Jones
Chas W Delany

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[...][...]
John..P.. Hall
Robert Byrne
Edward A Byrne
Joseph Byrne
Daniel C Byrne
M. R. Waller
John Hite
Minor Greggs sen
John V Griggs
J N Jenkins
Stilwell Holdclaw
R. J. B. Gilchrist
James Boyle
John F Lawson
Theodor Floton

James Blevins
J. J. Ballard
[...] Mclondon
William Drury
E A, Ealy —
John Thornton
[Richard] Blanford
James Ford
John Hennger
D T M Sibley
Isaac holman
William D Duncan
J H Hancock
James Downey
Georg Schneider
G M Buckman
J. T. [...]
James Hill
Wattkin Kay
Q T. Hughes
Thos G owen
B. F. Waggener
Jas W Neel
Green P Dale
J Austen
Peter F Goodwin
Wm H Bishop
J M Graves
V A Herndon
J B Allen
William Gorten
Patrick Bruce
T S Waller
M M Caton

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John E. Che[...]
J H Bracer
Thomas Crouder
Rob W Thomas
George Mills
J.. G.. Walker
Robert H Hancock
James K Walker
John B Albert
[...][...]
Ben. F. Willett
Edward Hughes
C. J. Gough
Richard Harsty
John T Mitchell
J, C Medley
A, P, Mitchell
John Lindle
Thomas. Kerry
John B Buckman
Richard Willett
A, B, Ely
E. G. Smith
Lewis Filssinger
Elijah Hughs
W. M. [...]
Henry N Vowels
John T Scott
Richard Blanton
J B Waller
E C Wathen
Wm Albert

C. H.. Buckman
James.A. Mitchell
James Sluits
Wm W Burch
Henry [Domson]
Benjamin Riggs
S. B. Hughes
J. M. Cowan
G. P. Riggs
John. Bauman.
Thomas H [...]
A. C. Watson
W D Hill
Jacob Lowraine
R. M. Long
Samuel [...]
Geo W Rudd
Jas W Delany
William E Hancock
Sam Churchill
John Filssinger
Elbert. Gann.
R L Davidson
Joseph Emerson
John Allross
D V M Lark
Thomas Hume
John S Barry
S B Shanks
Joseph potts
M M Berry