JOHNSON, ANDREW. Check Signed, as President, on the First National Bank of Washington, payable to William Slade for $632.77. Endorsed on verso by Slade. 1 page, approximately 3.5 x 8 inches; contemporary stamp affixed in the upper right corner.

JOHNSON, ANDREW. Check Signed, as President, on the First National Bank of Washington, payable to William Slade for $632.77. Endorsed on verso by Slade. 1 page, approximately 3.5 x 8 inches; contemporary stamp affixed in the upper right corner. Washington, 18 June 1869 E2, 500/3,500 Slade, a freed slave, served as Abraham Lincoln's private messenger and personal valet. After the assassination, Slade became Johnson's Chief Steward.