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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-0001-004-2395 BR15-326

Monroe County, Kentucky Monroe County, Kentucky 1865-09-23 Correspondence English 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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To all whom it may Concern Know ye, that William B Deckerd a private of Captain James M Childress's Company (I) 52 Regment of Kentucky Mtd Infantry volunteers who was enrolled on the Fourteenth day of December One Thousand eight hundred and sixty three to serve One year as during the war is hereby Discharged from the Service of the United States this Twelfth day of March 1865 at Bowlinggreen Kentucky by Reason of time of Service having expired

(No objection to his being remitted is Known to Court)

Said William B Deckerd was born in Jackson County in the State of Tennesse is Twenty Eight years of age five feet ten inches high dark Complexion dark eyes dark hair and by Ocupation when enrolled a farmer given at Bowlinggreen Ky this Twelfth day of March 1865

P,, A,, Wainwright Capt B U S Infr Mustering officer James M Childress Capt Co (I) 52d Ky vol

State of Kentucky Monroe County

I L A Smithwick Clerk of said County Certify that the above is a true Copy of the discharge of Willm B Deckerd &c From under my hand this 23 dy of Sept 1865

L A Smithwick Clk Monroe County Crt

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W B Decker To } Copy Discharge