Letter from W. S. Neilson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 18, 1861

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Letter from W. S. Neilson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 18, 1861

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Bryant, Boyd F.Neilson, W. S.Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

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Criminal Procedure Criminal Procedure--Clemency Criminal Procedure--Convicted Wars and Military Conflicts--Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842

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Mississippi--Lafayette County. Oxford

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Oxford Miss 18^th March 1861

Hon J. J. Pettus

My Dear Sir

Though a Stranger to you yet feeling a deep interest in my old friend and fellow soldier in the Florida war. B. F. Bryant, I have concluded to write you a line in his behalf I long known M^r Bryant in fact from my boy hood, and se^r^ved with him in the Florida war and I take pleasure in saying for him that he has ever been regarded as an honest good citizen an peacable man, and while in the army was esteemed as a brave chivalrous man, as evidence of which, I would state that the ordely sergent being sick on one accasin he was appointed to fill his place & did it to the satisfaction of the whole Company, From circumstances facts which had come to my knowledge prior to

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the getting up of the affadavits which will be presented to your Excelency, I was satisfied that he should not have been Convicted, which seems, fron the examination I have given the matter now conclusive that injustice was done. I would state further that I am induced to write you not from any application on his part, because he dos not, and will not, know that I write, but because I feel great solicitude for him as an old friend and fellow soldier. If upon an examination of the case your Excellency should consent to extend to him your Clemency I am satisfied it will give general satisfaction and will ever be remembered by your

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W. S. Neilson