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J. H. Davis et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Document Genre: Petition
Repository: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection: Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
Box / Folder: MG1-341 to MG1-341A
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-023-0107
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J. H. Davis 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-0001-023-0107 (November 13, 2026).

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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.

J. H. Davis
John W Story
A. B. Miller
Jahue Perkins
J L Spanglear
S Davis
Mikle Shaire
Leon [Vaon] Dietrick
Henry Ryan
John D. Owens
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Friedrich v. Haven.
J. W. Irvine
Geo Horn
Alex. B. Duerson
E Stoker
J Stoker
Thos J Jones
B Schlachler
T B France
A Y Die
Wesley Johnson
Thomas Tucker
Julius G. Johnson
[...] Hess
[...][fried] Hesz

Michael Egelhoff
John Stanger
John Vogt
M Leibold
Christ Möller
Wahle Goan
Isaac Kling
C [...][Taper]
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C. A. [Wenimann]
John Hyberger
Philip Shindler
L. Fisher
Jonah Reinehardt
L. Walter
Christian Clerk
[...][Hess]
Fred Apel
Jacob Dafl
P. E. Royse
David Frantz
John B Martin
Philip Whalin
Remi Jenesse
F. B. Liebert
J F Randolph
David [Zäfte]

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Jesse Dallartt
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Carles Bartsch
James Tanney
Isaac C, Coons,
Jos. Stoll
Michael Geitz
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John Kent
James Conway
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J G Pendleton
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J E Wolford
F. J. Glintz
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