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From: "Helen" <>
Subject: RE: [TN-Cocke] Confederate military and pension records
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:39:48 -0600
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In the past 6 months I have ordered 3 Union Pension files from NARA using
the 'Order Online' web site and received execellent service. Also their
widows pension records are included in their files.
I joined this List because of info found in one of the files, the surname is
Williams.
Helen
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Subject: Re: [TN-Cocke] Confederate military and pension records
I used to volunteer at the NARA branch in Denver. Where to get Civil War
records came up quite often.
Union Records
All Union Civil War records are at the National Archives. The service
records have all been indexed and the indexes and cards/papers have been
microfilmed. That means you can probably get the service records by
ordering
copies of the microfilm at your neighborhood LDS Family History Center.
The
Union pension records have been indexed (which have been filmed) but have
not
been microfilmed. You can use the index to find more information that
could
make it easier to locate the actual pension file.
To get copies of the Union pension files, you must fill out a form (I
forget the form number) with as much information as possible and mail to
NARA
in DC. I have been very dissatisfied with the response from NARA. I sent
in
a request over 3 years ago and never heard back. If you have the time,
money, and patience, a trip to DC to search actual records is a better bet.
(Plus, it's an amazing feeling to hold documents that your ancestor held in
his/her hands 100+ years ago!)
Confederate Records
All Confederate service records are at NARA and have been fully indexed
and microfilmed. The LDS Family History Library has these as well, so you
can order a copy at a Family History Center.
Confederate veterans and widows had to file for pensions through the
former Confederate state where they lived. (Therefore, a bunch of NC
veterans
who moved to Cocke County filed in Tennessee. I don't know what a veteran
would have done if he had moved up north.) All pension files in Tennessee
have
been microfilmed and are available at TSLA. Here is a link to TSLA's
history
and genealogy page where you can do a search for CSA pension records.
_http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/index.htm_
(http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/index.htm)
Don't go just by the veteran. If his widow survived him, she probably
filed for a pension.
I don't know how much TSLA now charges to look up and copy documents.
I
have not been happy with their response either. One thing I've discovered
is that the county records were often microfilmed as a group. So, if you
find
that your Cocke County ancestor has a pension on Roll #18, there's a good
chance that other Cocke County vets are on that roll. It might be more
cost
effect to buy a copy of the microfilm. That's what I did; I have rolls 12,
18,
26, 27, 36, and 77. The Stokely Library has some rolls as well. And, of
course, the LDS has copies too.
Bruce Price
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On June 29, 1793, Cloyd's (or Loyd's) plantation on the south side of the
Nolachucky River was the scene of an Indian raid, in which two children were
killed and another dangerously wounded.
Mrs. Cloyd was carried a half mile from the home and put to death, her body
being horribly mangled. Colnel John McNabb and ninety-one volunteers
assembled at the Big Pigeon and followed the trail of the Indians across the
mountains to the Tuckasegee, where they killed two Indians. Other red men
escaped because a member of the McNabb force thoughtlessly set up a war hoop
(OTMBH's page 17)
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