Jasper Newton Patton from Bradyville was conscripted into the CSA. When the war was over he signed the loyalty oath, but that seemed not to be enough to allow him to live a normal life back in Bradyville. Must have been hard times with neighbor not trusting or working with neighbor. He wrote the following letter to President Johnson, asking for a pardon, and received it. Here is a trascript of his letter. Murfreesboro Tennessee, Aug. 14th 1865 To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of US Most Excellent Sir I hope you will excuse this intrusion upon your time, when so many important affairs are pressing upon you, but I have received important favors at you hand which encourages me to apply again. These favors were granted ten years ago, when you were Governor of Tennessee in regard to a friend who was arrested & thrown into prison on the evidence (& that by deposition) of a monomaniac, & was released on a Habeas Corpus, & afterwards a requisition made by the Gov. Of Alabama upon your Excellency for his body. Which requisition was revoked when the facts were ascertained. The favor I now ask is for myself & the benefit of my family. It is of no use to reiterate the many turbulent scenes through which we have had to ____, within the last five years, for they are familiar to you. I tried to stay at home & make a support for myself & family, but in the fall of 1862 there come a conscript that took me as it did thousands of others, from a helpless & unprotected family, from which, I never got away until the surrender of Gen. J. E. Johnson, after which I returned to my home & made application at Nashville on the 20th day of May to Provost Marshall General, for the proper paper be come a citizen, with a citizens right, to transact & carry on business for the support of my family, according to the Presidents Proclamation, when a document, (a true copy of which is herewith sent) was given me. Many civil officers & citizens contend that it gives me no rights or protection. Now what I desire is a free pardon from you if this is not one, for I have a large helpless family dependent on my feeble efforts (for I have long been an invalid by rheumatism). (And although I was kept out nearly three years, they never got me to bear or fire a gun.). And it is necessary that a man should try & support those dependant upon him, which he cannot do, without protection by the laws of the land. Therefore to know my duty and do it, has caused me to trouble you with this communication, which I hope you will answer I am very respectfully, Your humble servant J. N. Patton Stamped: “Received from Dept. Of Justice December 18, 1894 R & R 402985”