Georgia Soldiers
Soldiers Moved GA to LA.
Why did Civil War soldiers moved from Georgia to Louisiana after the Civil War of 1865?
Soldier's Application for Pension
I, J. M. Adams, a native of Paulding County Georgia and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at Jacoby PO. In the Parish of Pointe Coupee in said State of Louisiana, and who was a soldier, (sailor or Marine as the case may be) from the State of Georgia in the Confederate States army (or may as the case may be, in the war between the United States and
The Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under Act 125 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana 1815.
And I do solemnly swear that I served the Confederate States honorably from the date of my enlistment until the close of the
Civil war, (or until discharged or paroled as the case may be,) as shown by my answers Below, and that I remained true to the Confederate cause until the surrender, and that I am now in indent circumstance and unable to earn a livelihood by my own labor or skill and that I am not salaried for otherwise provided for by the State of Louisiana
or by an other State or government.
And am entitled to receive the benefits of said Act No. 125 of 1898, as further shown by my answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and correct:
1. In what town, county, State, country and year were you born?
Answer: Dallas, Paulding, Georgia in the year 1844
2. When and where did you enlist, and in what command?
Answer: Dallas, organized in the 7th Georgia at Atlanta May 3-1861
3. Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you
Enlisted, and under whom you were serving at the date of your discharge or parole.
Answer: Col Gartrell, and Capt Jenkins, at the time I was wounded at
The Battle of the Wilderness Col Carmichel commanded The Reg,
And Capt Harlcrom the Company.
4. Were you wounded? If so, in what battles, and if not, state under what
Circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries.
Answer: Yes Three Times, 1st time The Battle of Spotsylvania,
2nd time Seven days fighting around Richmond, 3rd time at
The battle of the Wilderness, left on the Field, and captured.
5. What was the precise nature of your wounds, if any?
Answer: 1st time through the left shoulder 2nd in the right leg, and the
3rd time in the hip
6. If you have lost a limb or eye, state when, where and how.
Answer: Have not
7. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds,
Or from the effects of service?
Answer: Because the war closed
8. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did
You do until the close of the war?
Answer: Paroled at Delaware Prison, Sent to Jackson Hospital March 21,1865
9. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged?
Answer: Dr. Stone was in charge of the Federal Hospital
10. Where were you at the surrender?
Answer: I was on my road, returning home.
11. If a prisoner, in what camp, and when were you released, and to where sent?
Answer: at Fort Delaware Prison on or near March 21st 1865 and sent
To Jackson Hospital in the city of Richmond.
12. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any?
Time during the war?
Answer: I did when paroled at Fort Delaware
13. If so, when, where and under what circumstances?
Answer: At Fort Delaware about the 19th March 1865 a prisoner,
And wounded.
14. How long have you been a resident of the State of Louisiana next?
Proceeding The date of this application? Where have you resided?
That period?
Answer: Since 1860, in the Parish of Pointe Coupee
15. Are you married or have you been married?
Answer: I am married.
16. If so, what is the size of your family?
Answer: Nine living and three dead
17. What are the respective ages of your wife and children?
Answer: My wife is 50 years old Oldest child living is 27 2nd 25, 3rd 23
, 4th 20 5th 17 6th 14 7th 10, 8th 9 9th 4 years.
18. How many children have you, and how many of each sex?
Answer: Four boys, and five girls
19. Are you engaged in and business? If so what do you earn?
Answer: I am farming, barely a living some years.
20. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal,
And what is its value?
Answer: None, except 2 horses two mules and three cows.
21. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal,
And what is its value?
Answer: None
22. How have you derived support for yourself, and family if you have one,
For the last five years, and what prevents you from earning a living now?
Answer: At hard Manuel labor on rented land, am Getting old and not
Able to stand work.
23. Do you use any intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: Not to any extent.
24. Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: I have not employed one
25. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you.
Answer: None
26. Give names of two or more of your comrades with their post office addresses.
Answer: J. Jewell Taylor Ligonier PO Pointe Coupee Parish
W. A. Williams, Odenburg, PO Avoyelles Parish
I do not know the whereabouts of any Comrades or any of them.
27. Give your post office address and that of the two witnesses.
Answer: Jacoby PO Legonier PO Pointe Coupee parish, Odenburg PO
Avoyelles Parish.
Witness my hand this 7th day of October 1898
J. M. Adams
Witnesses: Applicant.
J Jewell Taylor, Did not serve in the same company, but know he was a faithful
Soldier from his papers
W. A. Williams " " " " " " " "
Applicant must co before clerk of court
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Pointe Coupee Parish. Personally appeared before me, H. P. Ledaux
Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named J. M. Adams
The applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application
Read and fully explained to him as well as the statement and answers therein made,
Made Ont. that the statements and answers are true.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 10th day of October 1898
H. P. Ledaux
Clerk
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Pointe Coupee Parish personally appeared before me, H.P. Ledaux
Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named J. Jewell Taylor
And W.A. Williams two of the submitting witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and known to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who take oath that they are personally acquainted with the forgoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements make in his application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant's habits are good and free from dishonor.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 10th day of October 1898
H. P. Ledaux
Clerk of court
Subject: More information on Jefferson Moore Adams
I looked at his compiled service records at the GA State Archives and
the facts as presented in his pension application check out well.
He enlisted in the Paulding Volunteers (Company C) of the 7th GA
Infantry on 5/31/61. He shows captured at Mine Run, VA on 5/10/64 and is
then imprisoned at Fort Delaware until paroled in Feb of 65 and
exchanged on 3/12/65. He's admitted to the hospital in Richmond, VA
3/13/65 and furloughed home for 60 days on 3/22/65. His records show he
was in the hospital in Aug 61 with measles, back again in May/June 62
with debilities, and again in May and June 63 (roll just says "absent,
sick"). The records do not show him wounded, but if these were flesh
wounds and did not require hospitalization, they would not show up.
they promote him to Corporal on 2/28/64. One entry notes that he
"signed with his mark" which would indicate that he could not write at
the time of the war.
Note: Confederate recruits were not required to fill out any forms when they
enlisted so you will not find anything of this nature in the existing
records.
Muster Roll of the Baker Fire-Eaters
A. H. Colquitt..............................................................Captain
James Baggs..............................................................1st
Lt. B. J. Russell................................................................2nd
Lt. B. F.Hudspeth............................................................3rd
Privates
J. M. Adams
W. A. Adams
J. F. Adams
E. G. W. Allen
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