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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-0001-004-2229 BR15-46 to BR15-47

Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky 1865-08-11 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 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Springfield Ky August 11th. 1865. His Excellency Gov Thomas E Bramlette Frankfort Ky Sir,

I arrested Milton B, Cox on the 17th day of March 1865, at the widow Powell's on Casey Creek in Adair County, for a charge of robbery commited upon the person or property of George W Walker. For this Same charge he was tried and convicted and Sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. On the fifteenth of Said March, myself in company with Several others

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Walker being one of the number, met Said Milton B Cox ^and others^ upon the public road, and Some one of the party remarked that one of their horses tracks Suited the description of the tracks we haved been following, when whereupon I proposed to arrest them, but Mr Walker Said that if these were the horses, they were not the men

The prejudice against union men in that Section is so high that I believe he was convicted upon that prejudice and not upon the evidence. I recruited two of his brothers and they are now in Captain Cozine's company, and I can truly say that two better behaved or more honest men never belonged to any company and Captain Cozine will Say the same for them. His father came to this country in March 1863.

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a union refugee from Georgia, and no man has been a better citizen than he, Since he came to Kentucky. I reccommend him to your favor

Very Respectfully Your Ob'd't Serv't John. W. McWhorter