JOHNSON, ANDREW, President. Document signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward, Washington, D.C., 25 August 1865. 2 pages, large folio, 242 x 385mm. (15 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.), large circular paper seal of the United States, accomplished in manuscript, matted and glazed in a giltwood frame. President Johnson pardons a former Confederate. "Whereas, E Waitzfelder of Baldwin County Georgia by taking part in the late rebellion against the Government of the United States, has mad himself liable to heavy pains and penalties; And whereas, the circumstances of his case render him a proper object of Executive clemency; Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Johnson...in consideration of these premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby grant to the said E Waitzfelder a full pardon and amnesty for all offences by him committed, arising from participation, direct or implied, in the said rebellion...: this pardon to begin and take effect from the day on which the said E Waitzfelder shall take the oath prescribed in the Proclamation of the President, dated May 29th, 1865, and to be void and of no effect if the said E Waitzfelder shall hereafter, at any time, acquire any property whatever in slaves, or make use of slave labor..."