Civil War Pardons Charles Floyd Hopkins To His Excellency Andrew Johnson President of the United States Your Petitioner Charles Floyd Hopkins of the County of St. Johns and State of Florida respectfully showeth that he is excluded from the benefits of the Amnesty proclamation of May 20th 1865 by the fact that he is a graduate of the Naval School in Annapolis in the State of Maryland, and from this cause only. He was appointed a Midshipman on the 19th day of October A.D. 1841. Graduated in 1848, and resigned in 1852. He has been a Citizen of the State of Florida for 23 years. He entered the service of the Confederate States September 28th 1861 as a Major of Infantry and was paroled at Appomattox Court House in the State of Virginia on the 13th day of April 1865 holding then the rank of Colonel of Infantry. He now forwards with this Petition the oath duly executed as required under the Amnesty Proclamation. Your Petitioner assuming fully the obligations of said oath; now comes to ask pardon and removal of disability from holding office under the United States Government promising a faithful and honest discharge of his duties as a Citizen of the United States. Chas Floyd Hopkins Douglas Dummitt St. Augustine Florida 8th December 1865 Andrew Johnson President of the United States Honorable William ? Provisional Governor of Florida Respected Sir On the breaking out of the late rebellion and in the passage of the Ordinance of Succession by the State of Florida in 1861, I was deputy Collector at Sungrove in said State and afterwards, and until the close of the rebellion retained the same position under the Confederate Government, I respectfully make the following statement to show and acknowledge the positions held by me under the several Governments and in addition therein would furthermore state, that I have not been in the Military or Naval service of the so called Confederate States during its existence, but have remained at my Orange Grove on Indian River in this State, nursing and attending to its growth, and other pursuits of agriculture = The the 'Oath of Amnesty' prescribed by President Johnson in his proclamation of the 29th May 1865 has been by me taken, a Certified Copy of the same being herewith furnished. I must respectfully submit the following for your kind consideration asking a Special pardon be granted, and issued and for which I now pray. With the greatest respect I subscribe myself Your Humble Servant Douglas Dummitt ? ? ? David R. Dunham St. Augustine Florida June 21, 1865 To the President of the United States Sir I have made application to the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury for the appointment of Collector of the Customs at the Port of St. Augustine Florida, but as I held office of Clerk of the District Court of the Confederate States, for the District of Florida, for a short time, I humbly and respectfully ask that I be relieved from the disability hanging over me in certain portions of the Oath of Office to be taken. I had been from the year 1855, the clerk of State Circuit Court for St. Johns County Fla and the defacto clerk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and St. Augustine. The Secession found me in these positions. I had been for years persistently opposed to all the sins of the South Carolina School, and at all times discountenanced nullification and secession, was a Union man unconditionally and was looked upon as one of the strongest and most uncompromising antagonists of disunion. In June 1861, I was without solicitation on my part appointed by the Judge of the Rebel District Court the Clerk of said court for St. Augustine. I was poor, with a large family, my little property was all in St. Augustine, and I was constrained by actual necessity to accept it, took the usual oath of office, and to support the Constitution of the Confederate States. The term of the clerkship of the Circuit Court to which I had been elected, had not expired and I took no new oath in that case. I held the place until March 1862 when the US Squadron appeared off the entrance of St. Augustine and the City was evacuated by the Rebel troops on the night, I think of the 9th - - On the 10th a boat with Captain C.S.R. Rodgers of the Wabash, came into the harbor. I was among the first to welcome, the arrival on the wharf. For my course before the Rebellion - during my sojourn under the Rebel Flag, and since the occupancy of St. Augustine in March 1862 by the U. S. forces. I respectfully and confidently refer to the testimonials and recommendations on file in the Treasury Department with my application for the situation. I have never been a Rebel, but always a true Union man in my heart. I have the honor to be With great Respect Your most Obedt Servant David R. Dunham |
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