- Joined
- Mar 18, 2011
- Location
- Clinton, Mississippi
This is the transcript of a letter written in 1865 by Brigadier General Claudius W. Sears to William L. Sharkey, provisional governor of Mississippi:
U.S. Genl. Hospital No. 2
Nashville, Tenn., June 23, 1862
His Excellency Governor Sharkey
State of Mississippi
Governor:
I have had the honor of applying to the President of the United States through the regular military channel for the benefits of the amnesty proclamation of May 29th, 1865. My application was approved and recommended by Maj. Gen. Thomas Comd. Of this Dept. We this day have a newspaper dispatch saying that the President has decided that all such applications must have the approval of the Governor of the State of which the applicant is a citizen.
My application has already gone up accompanied with the amnesty oath administered by the Provost Marshall General of the Milt. Dept., and can not conveniently be referred to you, but I will be under many obligations for your recommendation to the President in my behalf. – Am restricted from the benefits of the amnesty on two points only – the 3rd and 8th. Am a citizen of Marshall County, Miss., and have never occupied a civil public station. On a call from the Governor of the state I entered the Milt. Service in May ’61 and had the honor of serving as a Brigadier General in the Army of Confederate States, with I trust some honor to the valor of Mississippians.
Have no disposition to gainsay the apparent verdict of the war and trust I may be deemed worthy of further service to the honor of my country. My acquaintances in Mississippi is a good deal limited but can refer to the prominent citizens in the Northern portion of the state and doubtless to Bishop Green. Have had the reputation of being a quiet, unoffending citizen and trust I may do no discredit to the recommendation with which you may honor me. Was wounded at the battle of Nashville and am held as a Prisoner of War.
I am very respectfully, your obt. Svt.,
C.W. Sears,
Late Brig. Gen., C.S.A.
Prisoner of War
The following endorsement was written on the back of Sears’ letter, probably by an aid to Governor Sharkey:
Nashville, Tenn., June 23, 1865
C.W. Sears, Late Brig. Gen., C.S.A.
Asking recommendation for pardon as a prisoner [of] war at Nashville and his petition has been forwarded recommended by Genl. Thomas – but the President requires the approval of Governor of state.
W.L. Sharkey Letters & Petitions, 1865, Series 771, Box 954, Mississippi Department of Archives & History
U.S. Genl. Hospital No. 2
Nashville, Tenn., June 23, 1862
His Excellency Governor Sharkey
State of Mississippi
Governor:
I have had the honor of applying to the President of the United States through the regular military channel for the benefits of the amnesty proclamation of May 29th, 1865. My application was approved and recommended by Maj. Gen. Thomas Comd. Of this Dept. We this day have a newspaper dispatch saying that the President has decided that all such applications must have the approval of the Governor of the State of which the applicant is a citizen.
My application has already gone up accompanied with the amnesty oath administered by the Provost Marshall General of the Milt. Dept., and can not conveniently be referred to you, but I will be under many obligations for your recommendation to the President in my behalf. – Am restricted from the benefits of the amnesty on two points only – the 3rd and 8th. Am a citizen of Marshall County, Miss., and have never occupied a civil public station. On a call from the Governor of the state I entered the Milt. Service in May ’61 and had the honor of serving as a Brigadier General in the Army of Confederate States, with I trust some honor to the valor of Mississippians.
Have no disposition to gainsay the apparent verdict of the war and trust I may be deemed worthy of further service to the honor of my country. My acquaintances in Mississippi is a good deal limited but can refer to the prominent citizens in the Northern portion of the state and doubtless to Bishop Green. Have had the reputation of being a quiet, unoffending citizen and trust I may do no discredit to the recommendation with which you may honor me. Was wounded at the battle of Nashville and am held as a Prisoner of War.
I am very respectfully, your obt. Svt.,
C.W. Sears,
Late Brig. Gen., C.S.A.
Prisoner of War
The following endorsement was written on the back of Sears’ letter, probably by an aid to Governor Sharkey:
Nashville, Tenn., June 23, 1865
C.W. Sears, Late Brig. Gen., C.S.A.
Asking recommendation for pardon as a prisoner [of] war at Nashville and his petition has been forwarded recommended by Genl. Thomas – but the President requires the approval of Governor of state.
W.L. Sharkey Letters & Petitions, 1865, Series 771, Box 954, Mississippi Department of Archives & History