Robert Good et al. to James F. Robinson
1863-05-19
- Date of Creation
- May 19, 1863
- Place of Creation
- Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
- Box / Folder
- R4-76 to R4-77
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-029-0358
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211560
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Citation
Robert Good et al. to James F. Robinson, 1863-05-19, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0358 (November 13, 2026).
Leitchfield Grayson Co. Ky.
To his Excellency James F Robbinson
Governor of Kentucky
Your petitioners would respectfully represent that James H. Hays of the county & state aforesaid was at this term of the Grayson circuit court fined twenty dollars under an indictment charging him with adultery with a Miss Jane Nichols
He is a soldier in the United States army he belongs to company C, of the 17th Regiment of Ky. volunteers and has fought bravely through the battles of Fort Donaldson and Shiloh and is now at home on furlough sick & reports himself regularly to his regiment & expects to return as soon as his health will permit — He has been prosecuted very violently by secesh alone maliciously on account of his being a federal soldier & we think under the circumstances that his case deserves the clemency of the governor especially as he is a very poor man and has a wife and four small children depending upon him for support. If you can release him of the fine you will confer a favor upon your petitioners
Robert Good
Caleb Stinson
Charles Wortham
Wm S Byers
J A Bishop
John G Willis
W. N. Drane
Jas B. Litsey
J S Brash [Jr]
Eli Bozarth
Capt W Green
H. McSheer
Parish Garner
J R, Barton
W. R. Baker
Richard Clark
S Duvon
Wm H Burtte
Wm Crawford
B J Higdon
George howse
D F Edlen
Sorsam Henderson
J, M, McClure
T A Hill
John Fulkerson
J T Howard
Joseph Guggins
W. M. Myers
C McBeath
John Deane
Pat Sanders
R. G. Duncan
John Corman
I joined in this Petition on account that Hays has in the fires of Battle been purged of all his inequities
James Stuart
Circuit Judge
Samuel Hackley
Lewis W Hackley
James Pruity
F S T S Crame
James Paston
Squire Green
Jas Brasher
Ezra Wilson
I. Dinkelspiel
Allen Patterson
G, T, Mercr late Capt 3 Ky Cav
Pettn to remit fine of J. H. Hay & Grayson
Grayson Cir Ct
Fine Remitted
J F Robinson
$20 } Adultery
Issd