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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0201 R3-305

Clark County, Kentucky Clark County, Kentucky 1863-02-23 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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at Home, Clark, County Ky Feb 23d 1863. His Exelency Governor Robinson Dear Sir

Your petioner ^F. M. Bush^ is well known to the undersigned having been raised in the same neighbourhood to geather he is connected to a numerous and respectable family, and has an amiable lady for his wife, and several Babes, He is a young man of ardent temperament and dose nothing by halves he has been a Suthern rights man and in his ardor an inthusiasm Joined the Suthern army, and after a brief but sad expirance has had his mind disabused from the radical and dangerous error in to which he had been lid and I have good authority to believe that he is hartyly repintant, and has been induced by Gen Roscrans Proclimation, and other causes to return home, and voluntary surrender him self up to the authorities Military, and Civil, and throw himself upon the Clemency of his Cuntry and especially the Clemency of your Honor, pledging himself to be Loyal and true in the futer

Yours with high regard E, T, Taylor

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His Exelency Geoveneor of Kenentucky Frankfort