War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, April 17, 1866.
Major-General N.A. Miles,
Commanding, etc., Fortress Monroe, Va.:
Ordered, That Clement C. Clay, jr., is hereby released from confinement and permitted to return to and remain in the State of Alabama and to visit such other places in the United States as his personal business may render absolutely necessary, upon the following conditions, viz, that he takes the oath of allegiance to the United States and gives his parole of honor to conduct himself as a loyal citizen of the same and to report himself in person at any time and place to answer any charges that may hereafter be prepared against him by the United States.
Please report receipt and execution of this order.
By order of the President of the United States:
E.D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Volume X, James D. Richardson, ed., p 113.
[From McPherson's History of Reconstruction, p. 8.]
Andrew Johnson, Order—Release of Clement C. Clay, Jr. from Confinement Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/379201