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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-0001-029-0468 R4-251 to R4-252

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-07-24 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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Louisville Ky July 24th 1863 Hon Jas F Robinson Dear Sir

I have been asked to write & request you to pardon Mr Calvin Fairbanks. I do not know Mr Fairbanks nor any thing touching his crime except what I hear from others --

From all that I hear I think he has suffered sufficiently for his offence. though it was & is heinous --

There is great sensitiveness in the public mind here as well as elsewhere touching persons convicted of this crime alleged against Fairbanks. But surely in the mind of no man can the crime be compared to that of Treason -- & I have just condemned a man

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clearly guilty of Treason to confinement in the County Jail for only ten years --

In my opinion & I think in the opinion of all descent persons here. the law and the punishment, of Fairbanks has already been sufficiently vindicated

Respectfully Your Ob Ser Bland Ballard