Sampson County NcArchives Military Records.....Gregory, Samuel Stanford 1865
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Robert Fortner rfortner@centurylink.net July 3, 2018, 4:45 pm

The petition for amnesty for Samuel Stanford Gregory, came from online - Civil 
War Era NC – which contains many names of Confederate Civil War Veterans that 
were asking for Amnesty.

                                Clinton Sampson Co. NC

                                August 22nd 1865

To His Excellency
                   Andrew Johnson
                   President Of the United States

Your petitioner Saml. S Gregory a native and resident of Sampson County, and the 
State of North Carolina, respectively showeth unto your Excellency, that he 
received an appointment as Acting Midshipman in September 1859, an entered the U. 
S. Naval Academy, and remained until the breaking out of the War between the 
United States and Confederate States. His impulses being young led him to espouse 
to the side of his native State, and under his former teachings he left having 
resigned his position to offer his services to his mother state upon her 
secession. He received a similar appointment in the Navy of the Confederate 
States and being promoted from time to time, he at the close of the war was a 
Lieutenant in the Confederate Navy and during the of 1863 he was ordered to 
Europe on duty connected with his profession. Your petitioner further shows that 
he was 21 years of age in June of 1865, and he knows your Excellency will even 
look with leniency  upon the acts of youth, and particularly  when his energy has 
directed to what he supposes to be the best interest and honor of his mother 
state, in times of peril and danger where and learned of the land have as widely 
differed upon the questions of the rights of the states. 
      Although these youthful acts may have been in the eyes of older and more 
calculating men, indiscreet and in the eyes of others minimal, yet to the 
enlightened head and sympathetic  heart of a ruler of this nation, many 
indulgences will suggest themselves for the impulses of youth and generous 
inclinations of the young mind, and particularly where those errors have 
originated in the land of their birth and the home and graves of their ancestors. 
Your petitioner was too young to originate the policy of this unhappy war and in 
his generous nature only saw his state was to be involved in a struggle which 
required which required all the nerve and energy of absent sons, and this 
feeling, he returned home and joined her service.
    The war being at an end and feeling of duty of every man to be loyal to the 
Government under which he lives, and having taken the required oath he prays your 
Excellency's most gracious pardon, and that he may be restored to the rights, 
privileges and immunities of an American citizen.
                           I am sir,        
                           With great respect,
                       Your Excellency my humble and obedient servt.
                           Samuel S. Gregory


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