T. P. Smith et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Document Genre
- Petition
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- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
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- MG1-338
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- KYR-0001-023-0103
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Citation
T. P. Smith et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 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-0001-023-0103 (November 14, 2026).
To B. MAGOFFIN,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
IT is asserted and believed that a body of armed men have it in contemplation to march through a portion of the State, to make an attack upon troops encamped by authority of the United States at Cairo in the State of Illinois. Whether this be absolutely certain or not, we are not able to say. Considering passing events, and the feeling between the North and the South, this seems likely to occur. Therefore, in view of this probability, and the terrible consequences that might flow from such an act, we earnestly request your Excellency to issue a Proclamation forbidding the passage of such armed bodies of citizens over the soil of Kentucky.
T. P, Smith
Julius Winter
Andrew Hilyer
G. P. Williams
Joseph N. Parrish
John B. Ewing
L Waggert
W, E, Benson
John M Alexander
Wm C Clayton
J. B, Ehrich
C. S. Craig
John H. Williams
Robert G Leary
J, A, Baynes
J W Knight
T, H, Crawford
Robt Board
Wm R. Ray
M. G. Holmes
Benjamin Gambrall
John L. Treanor
M. W. Curry
Jacob. Hinkle
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