Colored Confederate Pension Applications (For Lauderdale County residents at time of application) |
| On April 9, 1921 the Tennessee legislature passed an act providing pensions of $10.00 per month
for "those colored men who served as servants and cooks in the Confederate Army in the War
Between the States" (1921 Public Acts, Ch. 129). As a requirement for eligibility, applicants
had to prove that they had served until the end of the War. The Act did not provide any benefits for their widows. In completing
the form the applicant was required to give the state, county, and year of his birth, and the
date on which he entered service. The application also required his former owner's name, regiment,
and commanding officer. It is also not unusual to find letters of testimony written by the former
owner or one of Complete copies of the pension applications may be ordered from the Tennessee State Library and
Archives. For ordering instructions, please see the webpage -- |
| NAME | UNIT | PENSION APPLICATION# |
| Hawthorne, E. D. Maclin, James Nelson, Louis Nowell, Smith Read, Henry Watkins, Wade |
7th Tenn Cav Tenn Cav 7th Tenn Cav 7th Tenn Cav 7th Tenn Cav 48th Tenn Cav |
105 192 32 156 272 269 |
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