CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S PENSION APPLICATION - LEWIS R. SMOKE, BROWARD CO., FL

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Application No. 24025
Pensioner No. 8926

SOLDIER'S PENSION CLAIM

FORM A

STATE OF FLORIDA
County of Broward
Dated: 18 December 1933

Soldier:  Lewis R. Smoke
Age of Soldier:  88 years, 23rd July 1847 in Orangeburg County South Carolina
Resident of:  Broward County since October 1885
Enlistment:  Orangeburg, S.C. on the 1st August 1863, in Company C, Regiment 
             Second of the State of S.C., C.S.A.
Discharge:  Orangeburg, South Carolina

Military Service:  Was in Augusta, Ga. making shoes for the Confederate Navy
Physical Condition:  Been confined to bed for about a year.  Physically and 
                     mentally weak.

Claim for Pension
Filed:  Dec 21 1933
Approved:  Jan 31 1934
With pay from:  Dec 21 1933
At the rate of:  $480.00 per annum

Signed: Secretary of Board

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WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington
September 8, 1933

The records of this office show that one L. W. Smoak also shown as Lewis Smoke, 
private Company C, 2nd Regiment South Carolina State Troops, Confederate States 
Army, enlisted August 1, 1863, in Orangeburg, South Carolina.  The muster roll 
of that company for the period from December 31, 1863, to February 2, 1864, last 
roll on file shows him absent, detailed by General Beauregard.

Other records show him in Augusta, Georgia, making shoes for the Confederate 
Navy, and no later record has been found.  E. Rickenbacker was Sergeant of that 
company.  The other comrades mentioned have not been identified as of that 
organization.  A. W. Smoak and J. M. Smoak served in Company E, that regiment.

Signed:  E. T. Conley
         Brigadier General