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John Skidmore 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: MG1-348 to MG1-348C
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-023-0113
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John Skidmore 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-0001-023-0113 (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.

Jno, Skidmore
Robert Patterson
G. N. Vacaro
Matthew Charlton
george Hillary
T. George Einsele
Henry Skidmore
Henry Raiman
Wm Hartenstine
S. W. Swift
P. Purcell
R. V. Vaughn
Harvey. H. Smith
Lawrence Haworth
Owen rooney
Mathew Fraley
John Burke
G. Delaney
T, J, Wells
Daniel Tilley
Willam Lasker
John Coakley
B. Price
J. M. Watson
Hugh Wanlass
Pat Whitfried
Thomas Dym[...]
LaGrange

F. P. Mantz
Thomas. Whitehead
J O Connell
Edw^d M. Sweeney
Philip Stocker
George Trautman
Pat Carroll
Patrick [Knightly]
Richard M^cguire
Thomas Doherty
Thomas Doolin
James Parkes
Thomas Dulem
M. Gilligan
Thomas Redfern
Robert Richey
Timothy Allen
John Holbourne
David.. Staples
R. Rogers Jr
R Radford
W^m Fitzpatrick
E. Gilligan
Thos P Davis
John W. Barrackman
James Mount

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J W Clayton
Zeke Heard
Thomas Basqe
W^m C Mahan
John M^cKinzie
F, H, Gibson
Louis W Whitesides
Tho^s S Wells
J M Head
John F Armstrong
William Carroll
A W. Wells
Nicholas Bower
G Keightley
Jas D. Elder
Ben Holburn
N, P, Williams
B. S. Ford
William H Talbott
John Trimble Jr
Alexander [Curcon]
J, A, Dougherty
T, A, Rodman
50 James H. Button
J. H. Fitzgerald
C. P. Strouse
W^m[Mays]ocker
William Head
Chas A Clarke

E F Taylor
J Barrackman
J. M. Overstreet
B W Ballard
J W Suttles
S A Pollard
J. J. Berry
Wm Varble
V. Mcdanold
H Varble
R A Wellman
H. H. DeGarvis
U. S. Berg
C P. Head
Wm Coons
B Fisher
S. W. Overstreet
F. M. Barbour
T Mount
~~J E [Smith]~~
A G Bailey
Rob Morris
A. C. Kitson
E Wadden
W Yager
C admur
A S Coons
H. [M^cCleaver]
William Garriott
William Fenley

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J. H. Wheeler
James Hopwood
W M Waide
J, H, Dawkins
J. G. Dawkins
H. M. Ford
D Buchanan
S, VanArsdale
R. A. Logan
Jo^s[...]
E Carter
John Watson
Jesse Head
Albert Brehme.
J, W, Kelsalle
Rob Mahan
Milton Campbell
H, L, Givens
Benjamin Head
W. L. Wharton
Stephen Kerlin
Sam Blakemore
Geo. Green
James B. Prewitt
L W Rodman
W^m Rankin
John Stevens
Charles P Head
C. M^cMeekin
Marions F. Johnson
Thomas Eubanks
W^m J Whiteside
W^m A Leet
R M Allen
James H Hall
C M^cfarland
John s Wellman
Frank parse
E A Kelly
B Pyles [...]
Wm. Arvin
James G Head n

James M Ellis
James Coons
John W Elder
Thomas P Frendley
George. R. Suttles
W Head
[...] f Shulk
G p gett
Anthony Carrole
W H Ward
J Carroll
~~J P[ Helman]~~
J. J. Marshall
W^m Seaton
George M^cDanold
Fred Keund
G. T. Brehm
T. Took
J. M. Fisher
J. F. Mahan
G. M. Overstreet
J Mitchell
D Morlan
John R MMahan
B, H, Roenner
W D Tucker
B F Dawkins
Nate M^cfarland
G H Head
W^m C Michell
W^m Rankin
M Smith
John Williams
Wm Mcmucken
Tho^s Swope
W. W. Morlan
James Warren Collins

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Broadas Fisher
Henry Preston
100G. M, Parks
W M Rodman
Tho^s Parks
John S Nay
W^m D Leet
E F Suttuls
Alex R Magee
T Powell
J, W, Kerlin
Garrett Lerhmen
James Evans
S. S. Deering
John ,C, Robinson
C Y Robbins
J. R. Ballard
George Kerlin
Reaben Button
Thomas. S. Ballard
W^m[...] Potter
W. S Bennett
D G Caskey
W^m Davis
W^m H, Pemberton
John M Kerlin

James McCurdy
Nathan Coons
Benjamin Helkete
G J Anderson
J Bennett
John H Williams
Logan May
Albert May
Alfred Arvin
Willis Bennet
George D Glass
E^d Whitesides
J. B. Matherly
W. T. Wilman
Thomas Welman
John Buckner
W A Campbell
T W Carder
James. Whitsids 237
H C Walroad
Ben. Rankin
P. T. Fendley
P Ackerman
Samuel Parks
T. P. Heritage
B. B. Waldon

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D M^cfarland
R H Murray
Sam^l Grimes
William Dawkins
M, Whitesides
A. L. Maddox
J. Mattis
John Glass
Abram Mathes
J,n,o Coons
F B Coons
W H Dawkins [...]
W^m R Taylor
G. B Moore
~~Nath~~^l ~~[...]~~
G Wigginton
Geo. Deering

Wm Nay
G. L. Whiteside
John M^cMahon
John Ballard
S. g. yeager
W. T. Kelso
Chauncey Rice
S O Pence
Ed Doyle
P. Harwood
Sam^l O. Taylor