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 November 11, 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-0001-004-1557 BR12-407

Barren County, Kentucky Barren County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizns of Barren County State that James James a young ^man^ and citizen of said county. Was tried at the present March term of the Barren county Circuit Court 1865. for arson and found Guilty and a judgment rendered against him to be confined in the penitentiary for five years. the charge was that he attempted to burn a house in said county. Said James had just been honerably discharged by reason of his time expiring as a member of the 37th Ky mounted infantry, we are his neighbos and know him, his character has heretofore been good as any young man in our country, and we learn that when he committed said offence that he was drunk, and we can only account for his conduct from that cause, we are informed and believe it, that at the time he so acted he was on his way to Louisville to rejoin the army, under these circumstances we most earnestly. ask that your Excellency would grant him a full pardon for said offince

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