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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-1823 MG23-203 to MG23-204

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1862-04-29 Correspondence English 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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Louisville 29 April 1862. Hon. Beriah Magoffin, Govenor of Ky. Dear Sir;

Inclosed you will find a petition of A. P. Gorsuch for a remission of a forfeiture, dated 24 Oct. 1861. I will say, this is a meritorious case, and one that demands Executive interposition by all means. This old man has nothing but some household comforts with a helpless to support. Besides his son would never have gone away, if a system of arrests had not been inaugurated here, that frightened many away who had done nothing, and would have remained. This has since been seen but too late by these who started it. The guns, I understand, were retained by all the Union men of said company. I suppose some of the secessionists took away theirs, but not at the instance of Capt J. G. Gorsuch for the company who did not go away as such. I am in hopes you will send to me the remission of the forfeiture before next monday, so it may be filed to prevent the judgment.

Yousr very Respy. Jeff. Brown