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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-0001-004-3412 BR42-295

Trimble County, Kentucky Trimble County, Kentucky Petition 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 His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Governor of Ky

The undersigned union men and neighbors of Mathew McCallister, beg leave to represent to your Excellency that they have known him from his youth up to the present time, and that he has always borne a goodcharacter, as a sober, industrious, and peaceable man, never having a difficulty with any man up to the time Minor Horton provoked the altircation in Augst 1862 for which assault he was fined TwoHundred ^fifty^ Dollars, during the last term of the Trimble County Circuit Court which fine we pray your Excellency to remit.

Mathew McCallister has alwaysbeen and isnowanunflinchingUnionman, and he as suffered much by having his property taken by the rebels and for which he was insulted (in part) by said Horton, who was a rabid rebel, and a few days after the difficulty he left his family and joined the rebel army, under Gen H Marshall, and remained some six or eight months; after which he returned home for avowed purpose of recruiting for the SouthernArmy. Finding it a slow business he concluded to take the oath, and become a galvanizedUnionman, with all his rebel proclivities clinging to him.

We further state, the the witnesses, who have signed sd McCallister's affidavit, and who were present, when the altercation took place at the meetinghouse are all men of undoubted veracity & honor viz; Rot A Wright J T Simmons Alfred Staten. William S Brent T. P. Jones & E. P. Campbell

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Subscribers names James Goslee Samuel High William Palmer L Goode R J C Scott Jno. W Moore James Coustandere S B Robinson J T Sandefer Willis Oliver W. S. A. P. McAlister G. W. Moore Wm Peck L. B. Gardner James. M. Staten Andrew Patrick R. T. Hall Robert B Williams Wm O Jeffries G T Scott J P Prince J W Kerby J S Moore Jackson Moore C Scott Moses Hardesty Jonathan S Gardner William Walker Charles T Scott James R Scott Ben Mitchell