Jackson County GaArchives History .....Confederate Amnesty Papers, Dilmus R. Lyle July 26, 1865 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Chasin yelton@cox.net March 2, 2011, 5:17 pm Mulberry Jackson Co. Geo July 26th 1865 To His Excellency Andrew Johnson President U.S. Sir: I held under the Government of the Confederate States the appointment of Post Master at Mulberry Jackson County Geo – a small country Post Office remote from any City – or Town. This office I held for the convenience of the surrounding community & certainly not for the honor or profit of the position. But the fact of having held it excludes me from the pardon & amnesty offered in you excellency’s Proclamation of May 29th 1865. I therefore, herewith humbly and respectfully submit to your Excellency my Special application for Pardon from the pains and penalties now imposed upon me by the Laws of the United States. I have taken and Subscribed the prescribed Amnesty Oath, which I shall observe and keep in good faith. My property is worth less than twenty thousand. Being above the Conscription age I have had no connexion with the Military Service in the Confederate Armies except a few months service in the State Militia under a Law of the State. It is my intention & purpose to be a loyal and useful citizen for the U.S. From that Government I expect protection and to that Government I give my Allegiance. I am Somewhat advanced in life with a large family mainly to raise and educate. With these responsibilities and duties resting upon me I cannot feel indifferent to the loss of what means I possess. The thought of living under the ban of the Government is deeply mortifying to me. I therefore appeal to your Excellency for the exercise of that clemency towards me, which has so signally characterized the official conduct of your Excellency towards so many others and invoke pardon from all the penalties to which I am now obnoxious. No proceedings have been instituted to confiscate my estate. All of which I have the honor most Respectfully to Submit As in duty bound &c &c (signed) Dilmus R. Lyle Subscribed and sworn to before me at Athens Clark Co Georgia this 16th day of August 1865 Matthias S. Euen Major 156 N. Y. Vols. Provost Marshall 6th Sub Div 4th Div Dept of Georgia -------- UNITED STATE OF AMERICA I, Dilmus R. Lyle of the County of Jackson State of Georgia do solemly[sic] swear or affirm in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder and that I will in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. – SO HELP ME GOD. (signed) Dilmus R. Lyle Subcribed[sic] and sworn to before me, at Athens this 14th day of August A. D., 1865. (signed) Matthias S. Euen Major 156th N.Y. and Provost Marshal The above named has florid complexion grey hair, and blue eyes; is 5 feet 9 inches high, aged 49 years; by profession a merchant. -------------------------------- Executive Offices Provisional Govt of Geo Milledgeville, Aug 26, 1865 Respectfully returned to Maj. Gen’l Jas. B. Steedman. As this applicant was only a Country postmaster I recommend him for pardon & amnesty, satisfied he will prove a loyal & useful citizen. (signed) J. Johnson Div. Gov. of Ga Head Quarters Department of Georgia Augusta, Ga. Sept 5, 1865 Respectfully forwarded to the Attorney General U. S. at Washington City (signed) James B. Steedman Maj. Gen’l. Commd’g. Dep’t. Ga. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jackson/history/other/confeder343ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb