Recently found, a box in the attic with a lot of my genealogy papers from years past that I have never transcribed. I have told you in a previous year, of the heartbreaking tale of Franklin Gorin Jr, son of Sr, grandson of John and Elizabeth Franklin Gorin of Glasgow. Signing an oath of allegience to the USA, then finding his wife of one year and newborn baby burned to death by the Union soldiers, Frank's life took a drastic turn. I have just located the correspondence that was given to me by S. R. "Tank" Gorin many years ago and found by a friend of his on microfilm. Source: Case Files of Applications From Former Confederate s For Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers") 1865-1867. Record Group 94, Microcopy 1003, Roll 25, Kentucky AD Frames 703-5. Copy of the microcopy in possession of Sandra K. Gorin. "To his Excellency the President of the United States. "Your petitioner Franklin Gorin Jr says he was born and reared in Kentucky - Married near Memphis Tennessee, and was residing there when the Rebellion Commenced - he was engaged in buying cotton to a limited extent and attending to the claims in the south of a large Mercantile house in Louisville - in the course of the latter part of 1861 and until the Summer of 1862 he lost his wife and child and all his cotton was burned and he was berift of every thing he had valuable or dear on Earth except his fathers family his mind was brooding on an almost constant insane melancholy. In 1862 he came to Kentucky and never joined the Army of the Confederate States or any military body at war with the United States - he was here required to give a bond and take an oath of allegiance. In August 1862 he became intoxicated which had the effect of creating almost entire Mental alienation and in this condition he joined them but before the war had ended he quit the service and came to Ky at Bowling Green and took the Amnesty oath and was parolled, destitute, and reported to the North post and to Gen. Palmer at Louisville. He says afterwards supposing that nothing would be done in his came further he engaged in business in Louisville at a salary of Twenty five hundred dollars but in a few day he was arrested and again put under bond in a penalty of Two thousand dollars to answer to a charge of a violation of his first Oath. "He says since he took the Amnesty oath he has conducted himself in good faith in and around with it. "Those are the plain facts of the case and he asks that your Excellency in your Clemency will grant him full pardon and release from his bond and as in duty he will ever pray. /s/ F Gorin. July 19, 1865. 'We recommend to your Excellence to grant the above prayer for pardon and release. /s/ W J Barrett, Jno W Barrett, Will P. Thomerson, Geo D Prentice, S. S. Bush, P. B. Mean?, one name unreadable, Ruffell Houston." "Louisville, July 22, 1865. "Hon. James Speed. My old friend, "I send you herewith a petition for Frank Gorin Jr. for pardon and Release from the bond on which A. M. Gazley is Surety to the Government one for $1000 executed in the Spring of 1862 and one for $2000 executed July 1865: and a prosecution before a Military Commission for a violation of his Oath of Allegience. "I think no good can grow out an enforcement of these things and as a personal favor to me I beg your early and favorable interposition. My wife is sick - He is her brother and the situation is poison to him and death to my wife. "You have the facts in the petition. Please give your early attention and if possible be favorable and have the pardon & release granted. "You know I never foret kindness, Yours, Chas. G. Wintersmith" President Johnson granted the pardon. Frank Jr's sister was Malvina Underwood Gorin who died in 1876. Another of Frank's sister, Mary Louisa Gorin Bell was the one who threw the Union soldiers food out of the 2nd story window at Bell's Tavern in what is now Park City in anger at what they had done to her brother, and was tied up and forced to ride on horseback behind a commanding officer and imprisoned for a time. Col. Sandi Gorin - Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin