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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0786 BR10-211 to BR10-212

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-04-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville Ky April 1st 1864 Govr T. E. Bramlett Frankfort Ky --

Dear Govr

My friends Major Wall & Wm Swiney Esqr will visit your Excellency for the purpose of appealing to your clemency in behalf of Thos B. Lawton who has been convicted of robbery in the McLean Circuit Court -- and sentenced to three years confinement in the penatinteary of the State -- I know nothing of the circumstances of the case aside from the statements of these gentlemen. But I have known the young man & his father and mother for years -- They were honest religious people- The young man has a very

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Ordinary mind. He was regarded by all who Knew him prior to the rebellion as an innocent unoffending industrious boy -- Just such a youth as would be likely to be gulled and led off by the great tide of rebellion that swept over that section of the stat -- From my Knowledge of him -- and the statements of the gentlemen. I am Satisfied that it is one of those cases that demand the interposition of Executive Clemency -- And I therefore respectfully urge Your Excellency to interfere and release him

I am Govr Very Truly Yours J M Shackelford