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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-0001-004-3297 BR42-122 to BR42-123

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We the undersigned acquaintances neighbors and fellow County men of Joseph Short and John Harding would most respectfully state to his Excy Thos E. Bramlette Govr of Ky that we have long known said Short and Harding that they have always been men of honesty and integrity and we never know or heard of any charges against them that did violence to their good reputation until the charge made against them by one John. R. Redman= We therefore join with them in their prayer for pardon of the alleged crime of Robbery as prayed for by them in their Petition= Respectfully &c

Robert Thomas I G Campbell Dr. Wm L Turner Jno T Melburn R A Burton J. B. McWhorter S. G. C J. B. Beames D. S. R. Davis J. C. Sympson Jas. Jones W. E. Parrott N E Teter Wm G Dearen John W Wallis George C Sympson W. B.Carlile J. H. Chandler Wm Cloyd Thos. E. Cowherd Green Forrest J. R. Thomas B. Spalding

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F B. Merimee John.C. Maxwell

I believe the charges against Tate Short and Harding to be utterly false. I have known them for years-

James M Fisher cap Pw