MONROE COUNTY, GA - MILITARY PENSION Sessions, J.G.

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JOHN G. SESSIONS....(File contributed by Jane
Newton, transcribed by E. Robertson)

(These records were included with some MONROE
COUNTY, GA. Pension records, but no application,
etc.)

STATE OF GEORGIA, MONROE COUNTY I certify that JOHN
G. SESSIONS AND MISS SALLIE E. CARSON were joined in
matrimony by me the 22nd Day of January 1868.  G. W.
Edwards, JP

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(Letter) Washington, October 12, 1910

Hon. C. L. Bartlett Representative in Congress,
Macon, Ga.

Sir:

Referring to your letter of the 10th instant,
received to-day, in which you state that Mrs. SALLIE
E. SESSIONS of Popes Ferry, Georgia has applied to
you for information relative to the service of her
husband, JOHN G. SESSIONS, as a member of the 9th,
and of Company C, 6th, South Carolina Regiments,
Confederate States Army, and in response to your
request that the information be furnished you, I
have the honor to inform you as follows:

It is shown by the records of this office that J.
GRISBY SESSIONS (name not found as John G.
Sessions), private and corporal, 2nd Company C, 6th
Regiment, South Carolina Infantry (not found as of
the 9th Regiment), Confederate States Army, was
enlisted April 17, 1862, at Yorktown, Virginia, to
serve two years or during the war; that he was
captured October 11, 1864, at Petersburg, and that
he was paroled and transferred for exchange at Point
Lookout, Maryland, January 17, 1865.  He was
exchanged at Boulware's Wharf, James River,
Virginia, January 21, 1865.  No later record of him
has been found.

Very Respectfully, R.________________, The Adjutant
General

(Handwritten note:  John Grisby Sessions was the
same. by Geo. W. Newton, Ordinary.)

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notes:  Trying to verify name of town mentioned:)

BLANEU, S. C., MARCH 2, 1911.  I the undersigned do
hereby certify that JOHN G. SESSIONS was at home on
parole on leave of absence when his command
surrendered April 1865.  T. C. SESSIONS

STATE OF S. C., KERSHAW COUNTY    

Personally before me comes T. C. Sessions who after
being duly sworn true to make the following:  John
G. Session was at  home on parole when his command
surrendered.  Sworn and subscribed before me this
2nd day of March 1911. 

Signatures:  John W. English, T. C. Sessions, E. A. Sessions