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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-0001-004-1890 BR13-465 to BR13-466

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-05-19 Correspondence English 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 May 19th 1865 His Excellency. Thos. E. Bramlette Governor of Kentucky Sir.

This letter will be handed you by Miss Mitchell a young lady of high standing in this city. She comes to lay before your Excellency a petition in behalf of her Brother Edward Mitchell who was recently convicted of manslaughter in our Circuit Court.

I would say to you that Edward Mitchell was a private in the Louisville Legion, andfoughtlikea hero and was remarkable for his quiet and orderly deportment. For three years I knew him well, and can cheerfully testify to his worth as a soldier. He did his duty in every battle in which the proud old Legion participated, He is a kind hearted boy, and bitterly regrets what he has done. I am persuaded he will never again suffer himself to be ensnared by that common enemy strongdrink, I believe he will yet make a good citizen, and if you can see you way clear to interpose executive clemency it will gladden the hearts of his distressed relatives, and put a brave and heroic youth in a position to redeem the past I most respectfully ask a pardon for him.

Yours truly J H, Bristow Late Chaplain Louisville Legion