Specifically, he refused to pardon the following classes, thus disqualifying them from voting or holding political office in the occupied South: all men who’d held Confederate civilian and diplomatic posts, all who’d served as rebel officers above the rank of colonel in the army and lieutenant colonel in the navy, all who’d resigned from the U.S. armed forces or left the Congress or judicial positions to assist the rebellion, and all who’d treated Union soldiers other than as prisoners of war. Apart from these, he granted full pardons to all other Southerners who’d engaged in rebellion so long
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