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To His Excellency
Thomas E. Bramlette
Govenor of Kentucky
Your petitioner Chas. Davenport would respectfully state that he was tried at the MaliciousShooting. & convicted to the Penitentiary for one year, the lowest term
Your petitioner does not deny the shooting, but disclaims all malice, & does regret the affair beyond the power of language to describe, The shooting was purely accidental no cause, no anger, not a word having passed. After the shooting your petitioner did all in his power to relieve the sufferings of the wounded person.
Your petitioner has served three years in the 14th Kentucky Regiment raised by Col Laban Moore in the Mountain Counties of Kentucky on the Big Sandy River.
As the shooting was accidental and no evil intention existed at the time your petitioner prays your Excellency to grant him a pardon & save him from the disgrace
that attaches to a Penitentiary convict.
Your Excellency Commissioned all of the officers of the 14th Reg. & it may be that some of them may be in Frankfort when this reaches you, if
Chas P Davenport
Jefferson Cir Ct
Vs
Cha s P Davenport
Pardoned
th Feby/65
Pardon