Curtis Field Burnam to President Johnson, 1865

This letter to President Johnson is a complaint on the behalf of Burnam because his son, A.R. Burnam, was supposedly granted a spot in the United States Military Academy at West Point by President Lincoln before his death, but the paper which held the authorization has been lost. Burnam is upset that his son no longer has a chance to attend West Point, and he seeks to place the blame for the loss of the paper on someone who works in the office of General Delafield.