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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-0001-004-2024 BR14-186

Webster County, Kentucky Webster County, Kentucky 1865-06-24 Legal/Financial 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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Kentucky Webster County Sct

G P Cosby Says that he is a Citizen of Dixon the County seat of Webster County Kentucky that he is well acquainted with John R Brooks late of said town That said Brooks is said now to be in the Territory of Colorado. That said Brooks has a wife & child now living in Dixon. That Brooks was a practising lawyer of the Webster Circuit Court -- That he was said to be a Commissioned lieutentant in the Regiment of Col A R Johnson of the army of the so Called Confederate States during the year 1862 or a part there of That during the early part of the year 1863 he took the oath of allegiance gave bond & was released by Col Foster commanding Post at Henderson That he returned to his home in Dixon and behaved himself well and peaceably during the time he remained & attended to his practice as a lawyer -- but that during the Summer of 1864 ^some officers &^ Soldiers of the 52d Ky. Regiment passed through Dixon & it is said with out any apparent Cause threated to Shoot said Brooks and ordered him to leave the Country which he did and Which in affiants opinion it was prudent for him to do=there was at the time a great prejudice in the minds of the federal soldiery against those Who had been in the Rebel army especialy those under the said A R Johnson

G. P. Cosby

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Subscribed and Sworn to before my me by G P Cosby the 24th day of June 1865

W. W. Gentry J. P