Grant, Ulysses S.

3 pages (8 x 4 7/8 in.; 203 x 125 mm) on a bifolium of Head-Quarters Armies of the United States letterhead, City Point, Virginia, 20 June 1864; creased, a couple of very short marginal tears. [Accompanied by:] An endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President, 27 February 1869, on the verso of a letter to him from C. S. Brown, Portland Maine, 8 February 1869.

3 pages (8 x 4 7/8 in.; 203 x 125 mm) on a bifolium of Head-Quarters Armies of the United States letterhead, City Point, Virginia, 20 June 1864; creased, a couple of very short marginal tears. [Accompanied by:] An endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President, 27 February 1869, on the verso of a letter to him from C. S. Brown, Portland Maine, 8 February 1869.
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General Grant, who in a few weeks would welcome Welles's son onto his staff, here asks the Secretary of the Navy for a favor: " Permit me to trouble you again in behalf of Frank W. Agnel, who was appointed last year to the Naval Academy but was found deficient in his examination. The young man has been studying very hard ever since to prepare himself for the Academy and I am told has made fine progress. A high personal regard for his father, who was my old Professor of French at West Points, makes me particularly desirous of securing this favor for his son. …"

C. S. Brown's son had been dismissed from the Naval Academy. She wrote to President Johnson asking that "his dismissal may be revoked and that he be allowed to resign. … By granting this favor you will much alleviate the distress of a mother and lay her under an obligation for which she will be extremely grateful." Johnson's endorsement records " Let Mr. J. H. brown's dismissal be revoked and his resignation accepted."