Johnson, Andrew. Presidential Pardon Signed ("Andrew Johnson")...

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Johnson, Andrew. Presidential Pardon Signed ("Andrew Johnson") Johnson, Andrew. Presidential Pardon Signed ("Andrew Johnson"), 1 page (8 ¼ x 10 ¾ in.; 209 x 273 mm.), "Washington," 25 October 1866. Minor foxing; small tape remnants on verso. President Andrew Johnson pardons the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. The document reads in full: "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the pardon of George A. Trenholm. Dated this day, and signed by me and for so doing this shall be his warrant. [signed] Andrew Johnson". George Trenholm was a prominent politician in the Confederate States of America and served as the Secretary of the Treasury during its final year. Trenholm fled Richmond with the rest of the government in April 1865 and went south as far as Fort Mill, South Carolina. Due to illness he asked CSA President Jefferson Davis to accept his resignation, which Davis accepted with his thanks on April 27, 1865. He was later briefly imprisoned at Fort Pulaski in Georgia before being pardoned by President Andrew Johnson as executed by this very document.