James Crowell et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- 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
- MG1-359 to MG1-359A
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-023-0123
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210978
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Citation
James Crowell 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-0001-023-0123 (November 14, 2026).
Mariah Begoffin
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.
James Crowell
George Griswold
Sam Grass Gite
John G. F. B, Hubbard
John Brown
John Graham
Wm. H. Gaslin
Geo McKinney
James Fitz Patrick
Andrew Graham
Wm R Beatty
A Martin
J B Webster
E. A. Holyoke
Wm Brent
Jas. Gilbert
John H. Heywood
J T Miles Jr
James Carlon
Jas Thompson
D W Saudell
D Campbell
Hamilton Griswold
Charles A. Gill
John G. Pixeyton
G, G White
Saml Johnson
Philo. S. Penney
Paul Danielli
F W Dicksen
John Burke
G W Griffy
John Leamay
John S. Griffy
W. H. Boyce
E Z Webster
Wm J. Owens
Wm Swiney
P Ryan
A J Fried
H Kleier,
D. McPherson
D C McIntosh
John Moore
S. P. Graham
John G. Bayless
L. M. Jones
Pat Nurer
100 voters
To Hon Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
2nd precinct of 7th Ward. Louisville