Extracted from\u00a0Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service\u00a0by Willie L. Robinson Nashville, TN<\/p>\n
The \u201cColored Man\u2019s Application for Pension\u201d included the following statement:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Negros\u2019 pension law passed by the Tennessee Legislature, provides that Negros Pensioned by this Act must have been bona fide residents of this State three years if they served with a Tennessee Command, and ten years if they served with a command from any other State. They must have remained with the army until the close of the war, unless legally relieved from service. They must be indigent. Unless you come clearly under the law, it is useless to file an application.<\/p>\n
The board meets the second Tuesdays in January, April, July and October.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABERNATHY, Ruff<\/strong> – b. in Giles County, TN in 1845; claimed service with the 3rd Tenn. Inf.; application accepted.<\/p>\n DABNEY, Mack<\/strong> – b. in Giles County on Decmber 15, 1845; claimed service with the 3rd tenn. Inf.; application accepted.<\/p>\n GORDON, Nathan<\/strong> – b. in Giles County, TN in 1844; claimes service with the 11th Tenn, Cav.; application accepted.<\/p>\n LESTER, Richard –<\/strong> b. in Giles County, TN in 1843; claimed service with the 3rd Tenn. Inf. Co. G; application accepted.<\/p>\n LESTER, Robert<\/strong> – b. in Giles County, TN in 1845; claimed service with the 18th Tenn. Inf. Co. K; application accepted.<\/p>\n MOORE, Giles<\/strong> – b. in Giles County, TN; claimed service with the 9th Ala. Cav.; application accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Extracted from\u00a0Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service\u00a0by Willie L. Robinson Nashville, TN The \u201cColored Man\u2019s Application for Pension\u201d included the following statement: \u201cThe Negros\u2019 pension law passed by the Tennessee Legislature, provides that Negros Pensioned by this Act must …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/giles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}