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1901 Confederate Soldier Pension 1901 Confederate Soldier Pension Soldier Widow Company Entered soldier born Death/Disability/Service Burial Identified Adams, Jacob E Julia B 57th Rgt Co I 06/30/1862 Trollinger Family Adams, William D 5th Rgt Co J 04/05/1862 c. 1837 not wounded Mt Zion Baptist Albert, W H (Aulbert) 6th Rgt Co F 12/15/1861 c 1842 shell fragment wounds from Sharpsburg Cross Roads Presbyterian Albright, A J Mrs A J Albright 53rd Rgt Co F 04/05/1861 Mt Hermon UMC Albright, George (MG) Jane 53rd Rgt Co F 02/15/1862 Mt Olivet Cemetery, Frederick Co , MD Albright, John P (John Patterson?) Mrs John P Albright 2nd Rgt Co C 08/01/1861 St Mark's Reformed Albright, John Polk Mrs Tempie Curtis Albright Armory worker 04/11/1864 c 1826 local defense; Fayetteville Arsenal work; d 1899 Friendship UMC Albright, John S Polly 6tj Rgt Co F 02/27/1862 c 1830 not wounded Bethel UMC Aldridge, Rufus G Annie 59th Regt Co B 07/08/1862 McCray Primitive Baptist Allen, Joseph 45th Rgt Co G 05/00/1862 c 1841 wound in left shoulder at Appomattox Holly Springs Friends, Randolph Co Allen, William G Co A 1st Btn 09/06/1862 c 1843 wound in rt side at Mine Run, VA 9/1863 Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Allison, John Q 6th Rgt Co K 02/15/1862 c 1832 wounded at Winchester & Gettysburg Cross Roads Presbyterian Allison, M W (Marion Wyatt) 4th KY Co D 03/15/1861 c 1837 served in KY; lost rt eye at Kennesaw, GA Long's Chapel UCC Allred, Daniel (Dan or David) Nancy 22nd Rgt Co I 06/05/1861 c 1834 wounded at Rapidan, VA 08/1863 Allred, Isaac 26th Rgt Co G 05/15/1861 c 1842 leg wound at Gettysburg; App to Soldier Home White Memorial Baptist Allred, Osmond (Osborne/Ausburn) 26th Rgt Co F 04/15/1862 c 1829 had "severe sickness" while in service Anderson, James E 1st SC Co H 07/27/1864 c 1847 South Carolina soldier Old Stone Ch/Clemson, SC Andrews, Alvis Sady 61st Rgt Co D 06/01/1862 Pine Hill Andrews, Ruffin (Henry Ruffin) Margaret J 13th Rgt Co E 08/01/1862 c 1833 ill health discharge-epilepsy?; d 12/23/1909 Pine Hill Anglen, Samuel R "Anglea" 38th VA Co K 04/00/1862 c 1838 enlisted at Cascade, VA; not wounded Anthony, D P (Daniel Polk) Mrs. D P Anthony 22nd Rgt Co F 03/10/1864 c 1843 Pine Hill Anthony, George W 6th Rgt Co F 04/01/1861 c 1844 Pine Hill Apple, Andrew F 45th Rgt Co B 03/10/1862 c. 1846 wounded at Wilderness; POW Apple's Chapel UCC Atwater, E W (Edmund Warren) 63rd Cavalry Co E 06/08/1862 c 1842 wounded 04/1865 at Five Forks Mt Pleasant UMC Baker, Robert Cumberland Bn 01/17/1865 c 1847 enlisted at Fayetteville, NC Baliff, Frederick (Bedford) "Bailiffe" Sarah 53rd Rgt Co F 03/06/1862 soldier died 06/06/1888 Cane Creek Monthly Meeting Barber, David Eliza 53rd Rgt Co A 03/03/1862 c. 1831 died in war at camp near Kinston, NC Stony Creek Presbyterian Barham, William J (Wm H?) Nancy J 45th Rgt Co G 05/01/1862 Haw River Community Barker, Thomas B Mary C 72nd Rgt Co G 09/20/1864 Stony Creek Presbyterian Barnett, John D Mrs John D Barnett 4th Btn Infantry 05/00/1864 c 1846 also 72nd Rgt Co K; m. 01/1874; died 10/08/1927 Stony Creek Presbyterian Barrett, Aaron Rebeca Carver 15th Rgt Co E 1861 soldier died of disease at Gordonsville VA Lynchburg, VA City Barton, Eli Mary 6th Rgt Co F 01/01/1863 c. 1829 not wounded Long's Chapel UCC Bason, H A (Henry A) Mrs. HA Bason 40th Rgt Co C Oakwood in Mebane, NC Bason, James D 13th Rgt Co E 05/03/1861 c 1836 wounded at Gettysburg 07/03/1863 Pine Hill Bason, W H (William Henry) Flora 13th Rgt Co E 04/01/1864 c 1847 m. on 12/11/1889; soldier died 05/20/1927 Hawfields Presbyterian Batchelor, Henry C Bettie 6th Rgt Co B 05/00/1861 c 1837 Bethlehem Christian Beal, J W Mrs Mandy Jeffries 26th Rgt Co E married 1865; remarried widow Beal, Joseph Elizabeth 5th Rgt Co A 07/28/1862 captured 7/1863; died a POW Ft Monroe 11/1864 Bell, Benjamin H Caroline 2nd Rgt Co C married 01/12/1869; died 1909 Hillsborough, NC Town Bennett, J G (James Griffin) Mrs E A Bennett 49th Rgt Co B 04/01/1865 also lists 15th Rgt Co D Lystra Baptist in Chatham Co Bethea, W(illiam) C 8th Rgt Co E 09/09/1861 c 1834 injured when guarding escaping deserter Pine Hill Bivens, Thomas (Bevans/Bevins) 57th Rgt Co I 07/01/1862 ankle wound at Gettysburg 07/01/1863 Blackmon, J H (John Henry) 24th Rgt Co E 02/00/1862 c 1846 not wounded Linwood in Graham, NC Blackwell, L L (Livingston Lafayette) 14th Rgt Co K 04/07/1863 c 1848 back injury while building breastworks Pine Hill Blalock, Hasten Eliza B 50th Rgt Co A 03/01/1862 soldier died in Person Co, NC in 1892 Blalock Cem in Hurdle Mills Blalock, Weldon Dewitt Fannie 50th Rgt Co A 05/01/1864 c 1846 married 1882; died 1926 Jesse Walker Cem-Person Co Blanchard, F U (Fred Uriah) 47th Rgt Co K 08/01/1862 c 1839 xfer to 3rd Rgt Co C; then Quartermaster Dept Long's Chapel UCC Boggs, Jesse 53rd Rgt Co F 03/08/1863 c 1841 Mt Hermon UMC Bohannon, T A (Dr. Thomas A.) Mrs T A Bohannon 7th VA Co A 04/01/1861 c 1839 Va soldier; wounded at Five Forks & Manassas Pine Hill Bondurant, William B Mrs Hester Ann Hawley 11th VA Co B 04/23/1861 c 1820 wounded at Seven Pines; discharged 06/1862 Pine Hill (wife at) Boon, John (John Henry) Roweny (Rowena) 47th Rgt Co K 10/00/1864 Bethel UMC Boon, Phil H 47th Rgt Co K 03/17/1862 lost rt thumb at Gaines Farm 06/1864 Bethel UMC Boon, William 47th Rgt Co K 04/12/1863 c 1845 Bethel UMC Boone, Henry Milton 27th Rgt Co B 05/01/1861 c 1841 wounded at Bristow Station, VA 1863 Union Ridge UCC Boseman, Isaac (Bosemond) 10th Rgt Co E 10/20/1861 c 1836 not wounded Bethlehem Christian Bowles, Benjamin Mary J. 4th Rgt Co E 04/27/1864 c. 1846 not wounded Haw River Community Bradshaw, J M (John McMullen) 44th Rgt Co F 05/01/1862 c 1838 Phillips Chapel UMC Bradshaw, Thomas P(atterson) Co K NC Militia Fall 1863 c 1834 not wounded Clover Garden Cemetery, Orange Co Bradsher, J W Elizabeth A 50th Rgt Co A 03/01/1862 pensioner died 05/21/1897 Oliver Bradsher Cem, Person Co Brannock, Thomas J Margaret Brannock Simpson 47th Rgt Co E 03/13/1862 killed 7/1863; widow remarried; duplicate file Braxton, Hiram Margaret 14th Rgt Co B 06/23/1863 c 1841 married 1906 (Sic?); soldier died 12/29/1926 Center Methodist Brinsfield, H(arvey) Grandison Eliza Jane (Skenes) 13th Rgt Co K 04/15/1861 c 1833 married 09/12/1865; not wounded Brockwell, William Ellen 28th Rgt Co G 03/15/1862 killed 1864 (05/06/1864 at The Wilderness) Orange United Methodist (wife at) Brooks, William H(enry) Bettie 45th Rgt Co I 04/01/1861 c. 1837 wounded Fisher Hills, VA 1863; duplicate file McCray Primitive Baptist Brown, James A 8th Rgt Co I 07/07/1861 c 1835 Pine Hill Brown, James M 1st Rgt Co D 05/02/1862 c 1836 Brown, Yeargen 10th Rgt Co E 09/00/1861 c 1843 not wounded Haw River Community Bryan, AP (Archibald Bryant) Margaret C 5th Rgt Co H 04/01/1861 c. 1840 not wounded Friendship UMC Buckner, Jesse J Martha M 41st Rgt Co D 05/00/1862 c 1835 shoulder wound Dinwiddie Ct Hse; d 1/27/1911 Linwood in Graham, NC Bunting, Sampson (Bunton) Elizabeth H 53rd Rgt Co F 10/00/1864 c 1844 Bellemont UMC Burke, William A Martha A 2nd Rgt Co K 11/01/1864 Shallowford Christian Burton, George M Mrs George M Burton 4th Rgt 04/01/1861 Cable, Jerry O (Jeremiah) France E Navy c 1839 w/ Capt Poindexter in Gulf of Mexico; d 6/1917 Frieden's Lutheran Campbell, Thomas J. Otelia 67th Rgt Co E 08/01/1862 c 1835 Oakwood in Siler City, NC Canady, Antiochus L. "Kennedy" 1st Rgt Co D 06/15/1862 c 1830 not wounded; Raleigh Soldier Home application Oakwood in Raleigh, NC Cape, Henry Harrison "Capes" Bettie 13th Rgt Co K 05/16/1861 c 1834 wounded at Chancellorsville; duplicate file McCray Primitive Baptist Cape, Thomas R(uffin) 6th Rgt Co H 05/04/1861 lost eye at Pt Lookout while prisoner Capps, A J (Andrew Jackson) Mrs A J Thompson 15th Rgt Co H 05/01/1861 c 1844 married 1866; soldier died 05/27/1927 Mt Hermon UMC Carden, W M D.M. 17th Rgt Co L 05/16/1863 widow asks pension transfer to Asheville Lebanon UMC in Orange Co Carroll, Sanders 53rd Rgt Co F 04/01/1862 c 1827 taken prisoner at Petersburg Mt Zion Baptist Carter, S H (Samuel Hatch) Sarah 26th Rgt Co G 03/15/1863 c 1843 Pleasant Hill Christian Cates, George W(ashington) Purefoy Sarah J.
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