Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-28
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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER es. isS7.
Largest Circulation in City and State.
PERSONS EXCLUDED FROM AM
NFGTY

hundred persons or thereabouts, were ex-
cluded Other statements have been
made placing the number much higher
A special correspondent Of the New York
World at Washington, has been investi-
eating the matter, and has given the
names Of a large majority, if not all, OF
those excluded in the first three classes
named Those in the remaining two
classes-maltreater of Federal prisoners
of war, and persons under indictment for
military crimes, are comparatively few,
and it is doubtful il the whole number
reaches one hundred The Worlds cor
respondent says
come now to those who are still ex-
cluded from amnesty. The list will be
found to comprise quite a number of the
officials most conspicuous in the civil and
military service of the Confederacy. Un-
der the head of Chief executive officers"
and "heads of departments" are the fol-
lowing:
Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, President.
Alex. II. Stephens, Georgia, Vice Presi-
dent.
Robt. Toombs, Georgia, Secretary of
State from February, 1861, to July, 1861.
r. NJ. T. Hunter, Virginia, Secretary of
State from July, 1861, to February, 1862.
Judah p. Benjamin, Of Louisiana, Secre-
tsry of State rom February, 1862 to April,
1865.
James A. Sedden of Virginia, Secretary
of War, 1928.
John c. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
Secretary of War, 1s64-65.
S. R. Mallory, of Florida, Secretary of
the Navy, 1861 TO 1865.
Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina, At
torney General, l86l-62.
Five or six Of Mr. Davis cabinet have
been specially pardoned-Hon. John H.
Reagan, Of Texas, Confederate Postmaster
General all through the war, taken with
Mr.. Davis when captured, and imprisoned
a long time in Fort Warren Thomas II.
Watts, ofAlabama, Attorney General, 1862;
George Davis, of North Carolina, Attorney
General, 1863 and "a; G. G. Memminger,
of South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasu-
~ from 1861 10 1864; George A. Tren-
holm, of South Carolina, Secretary of the
Treasury from 1864 to the close of the war,
imprisoned in Fort Pulaski; and to this
number may be added George W. Ran,
dolph, of Virginia, a relative, we believe,
to John Randolph and Thomas Jefferson,
who was Secretary of War in 1862, and
then resigned, went to Europe for his
health, but came home since the war in
the last stage of consumption and died in
April last
The following comprise a pretty full list
of those who were Agents" of the Con-
federate government in foreign states and
countries" l take first diplomatic and
commercial agents:
James M. Mason, Va, Commissioner at
London.
A. Dudley Mann, Va, Commissioners at
Brussels.
L. Q. C. Lamar, Miss, Commissioner to
Russia, and a Colonel in the Confederate
States army.
John f. Pickett, KY, Commissioner to
Mexico in 1861, served afterwards on staff
of General Breckinridge.
VIM. Preston, KY, Bugadier General in
Confederate States army, and sent as Com
missioner to Maximilian.
Emile La Sere, La, Commercial agent
in Mexico.
George Eustis, La, Secretary Legation
to Slidell at Paris.
James h. Mcfarland, Va, Secretary of
Legation 10 Mason at London.
Henry Hotze, Ala, Editor of Isder, and
Commercial agent at London.
Chas. j. Helm, KY, Commercial agent at
Havana.
Walker Fearn, Ala, Secretary Of Lega-
tion to L. Q. C.. Lamar.
Edward ID. Leon, S. c., employed as a
writer in Paris.
B. Avegno, Commercial agent in Mex
ico
Three of this class have been pardoned :
2. Rest, Of Louisiana, one of the first three
Confederate Commissioners sent abroad /;
Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, Commissioner
at Rome, and J. A. Quintero, Special Agent
in Northern Mexico. William L. Yancey,
of Alabama, one of the most conspicuous
of the Southern leaders, who figured as
Commissioner in England, returned home
and died in the South during the war.
Among the number of miscellaneous
"agents" excluded from the amnesty are
Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi,
Commissioner and agent in Canada.
c. c. Clay, of Alabama, Commissioned
and agent in Canada.
General E. G.. Lee, of Virginia, Commits
sioner and Agent in Canada.
Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, Commercial
agent at Halifax, n. S.
Captain NJ. f. Maury, of Virginia Cap
tain Bullock, of Georgia - Ferguson, -
Huse. and some others, we're dispatched to
England for the purchase of supplies, cloth
ing, etc.
]. P. Holcombe, of Virginia, agent In
| Canada, and Walker, Commercial agent at
Bermuda, have been pardoned Heyllgn'
| agent at Nassau, is dead. George n. San
| ders, by many supposed to be Rebel
agent, never held any position, whether
civil or military, under the Confederate
government.
MILITARY LEADERS.
The number Of those still unpardoned Is
| quite large. They are as follows:
Robert f. Lee, Virginia, General.
JOS. E. Johnston, Virginia, General.
G.. t. Beauregard, Louisiana, General
Samuel Cooper, New York, General.
Braxton Bragg, North Carolina, General.
James +. Longstreet, Georgia, Lieuten'
ant General.
VIM. J. Hardee, Georgia, Lieutenant
General.
John r. Hood, Kentucky, Lieutenant
| General.
John c. Pemberton, Pennsylvania, Lieu
tenant General.
f. Kirby Smith, Florida, Lieutenant
| General.
| Theophilus Holmes. North Carolina
| Lieutenant General.
Robt. S. Ewell, Tennessee, Lieutenant
| General.
Alex. P. Stewart, Tennessee, Lieutenan
| General.
Albert S. Johnston, General, fell a
Shiloah. and Stonewall Jackson, Lieuten
ant General, died from wounds at Chan
cellorsville. Leonidas Polk, Lieutenan
General, fell in the Georgia campaign o
| 1854. A. 2. Hill, Lieutenant General, wa!
killed near Petersburg, in April, 1863.
Among the Major Generals not pardone'
we find John B. Magruder, Virginia Geo
f. Pickett, Virginia; Jubal Early, Nir
ginia, Sterling Price, Missouri Eugen
McLaws, Georgia Howell Cobb, Georgis