Letter from Susan C. House to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus; July 14, 1861

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Letter from Susan C. House to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus; July 14, 1861

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People

House, Jesse House, Susan C.Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

Events

Crime Crime--Murder Criminal Procedure--Execution Criminal Procedure--Indictments Criminal Procedure--Trial Wars and Military Conflicts--Mexican War, 1846-1848

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army

Organizations

Prisons

Occupations

Legal Profession--Lawyers

Places

Indiana Mississippi--Coahoma County Mississippi--Jefferson Davis County. Prentiss Missouri--Independent City. Saint Louis Ohio

Social Identifiers

Criminal Status--Imprisoned people Marital Status--Widows Nationality--Dutch

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Prentiss Miss July 14th 1861
To your Excelence Gov, of the state of Miss

I write under great embarassment. My husband has been Indicted in the County of Cohoma and tried for murder and found guilty upon his own Confession with but little proof and since been loged in this place for safe keeping he is condemed to be hanged for the offence his attorneys have taken an appeal on a writ of Error and he will most likely come clair my husband was a soldier in the Mexican war and was as brave as the bravest there has been two companys formed here and he has been trying to be permitted to join some Military company to serve his country he is a southerner born and raised in the country and the man he killed was a dutch man and from St Louis and had he been living now he would in all probability of been armed a-gainst our glorious Confederacy now I want to know of you if there is no way he could be released from this lothesome prison for his health is fast declining and if he remains in this unhealthy Iron prison this summer and gets clair this fall he will be so missaried should his country need his service he will not be able to serve her now it does appear to me if the north can release and inlist all their convicts in

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in an unholey cause you might release one in the south I understand that Ohio & Indiana are going to turn out some 1900 ~~[?]~~ Convicts against us in the south surely there can be no wrong in the South releasing one against so many hundred as I never address any person on so important a subject and feeling as I do so embarassed I hope you will excuse me should this not meet with your appro-bation hoping to hear from you soon I remain a poor beraved and disconsolate widow with out means of sustainance Respectfully yours

Susan C House

my husband is Jesse House