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From: "Patt Ricketts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Civil War Pension File question
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 17:26:13 -0700
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On 5/6/07, J Lipmanson <> wrote:
>
> I have located the the file number of a pension application by a
> Confederate soldier who is an ancestor of mine. At the time of the war
> he was a resident of SC, and was in the Confederate Army for 3 years. He
> was captured at the Battle of Petersburg and spent the rest of his
> military service as a POW until the south surrendered in 1865.
>
> His pension application is dated 1881, at which time he was living in
> NJ. I've always understood that Confederate Pension records are stored
> in the state to which application was made. Does this hold true even if
> the applicant was living in another state? Would I go to NJ or to SC for
> his pension file?
>
> Judith
>

Judith,

I'm not an expert, but I would doubt NJ would give a pension to a
Confederate soldier.

I've checked for Confederate pensions in Alabama and Tennessee and both of
them were different. As far a I know Confederate pensions were only offered
by the state not Federal government. If I were you I check to see what SC
says about pensions

Patt Ricketts

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