Read Andrew Jackson III's letter asking President Johnson for a pardon.

Sept. 9^th 1865

 

Sir

            I have the honor to state, that being a graduate of West Point and in the United States Army when the late war commenced, I come under the fifth and eighth exceptions of the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation and am therefore excluded from its benefits. I now ask the Presidents clemency and that my disabilities be removed, that in being and intending to remain a quiet, peaceable, and law abiding, citizen, I may enjoy the privileges usually extended to such.

            The Government has never taken possession of any of my property. There are no proceedings pending against me in a United States Court, and the resignation of my commission in the United States Army was accepted before I joined the Confederate Army.

A. Jackson

 

The Papers of Andrew Johnson, Vol. 9, September 1865-January 1866, edited by Paul Bergeron