Petition

G. A. Watkins et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
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MG1-354 to MG1-354A
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KYR-0001-023-0118
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G. A. Watkins 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-0001-023-0118 (November 14, 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.

G, A, Watkins
S. G. Putnam
Jno D Barfield
Wm F. Spiegelhulder
E W Rupert
John M Boggs
Jno M. Farmer
R H Elbing
G W Wilson
Val. Schultz
W. Neimann
H. M Smith
John [Stand]
John Walton
Edw Hughes
Thos F Caldwell
M D Levy
T. Wellman
W H Settle
J. Diller
E. Beilstein
Daniel McLaughlin
Ferdinand Spiegelhalder
Henry Krenner Jr
J M Blake

Samuel Birch
Wm Prather
Jno F Spiegelhalder
A. Riedle
A Schuck
Edward Smith
A. Nolan
W. Henry
Henry Smith
Henry. Hunter
B S Looney
Daniel,, Austin
W H Dunlevy
J W Wheeler
Geo. W. Meriwether
H. Preissler
L B Green
Jno E Crumbaugh
Henry Fletcher
W. H. Grear
M Morrison
John Beck
W J Green

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Abraham Hirsh
Jno B. Green
Joseph. P. Eisert
Tho Ward.
Patrick Deely
Charles Wolford
J. B. Hoover
Chas, A, Stimmel
L A Curran
Lewis Shafer
Sam Hulett
Wm Dean
Chas Alexander
C V Bond

Henry B Green
Jacob, Keller
Jas. E Gay
John. B. Bangs
Julius Barbaum
W. R. Howell
John Wilson
James Adams
Robt Skene
T H Atkinson
John. Bron