G.W. Bass, Soldier's Application for Pension
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Chere Lee	
Date: May 10, 2012

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I, G.W. Bass [unreadable] Louisiana and now a citizen of
Louisiana, resident at Forest Hill in the Parish of Rapides
in said State of Louisiana, and who was a soldier, (sailor or
marine as the case may be) from the State of Louisiana in the
Confederate States army (or navy as the case may be) in the war
between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby 
apply for aid under Article 303 of the Constitution of 1898, and
subsequent Acts of the State Legislature thereunder, and I do
solemnly swear that I served the Confederate States honorably
from the day of my enlistment until the close of the civil war,
(or until discharged or paroled as the case may be), as shown by
answers below, and that I remained true to the Confederate cause
until the surrender, and that I am now in indigent circumstances
and unable to earn a livelihood by my own labor or skill, and
that I am not salaried or otherwise provided for by the State of
Louisiana or by any other State or government, and am entitled
to receive the benefits of said Acts, as further shown by my
answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and
correct: 
1. When and where were you born?
   Answer: Rapides Parish La on January 11th 1846
2. When and where did you enlist?
   Answer: Inlisted in the month of September 1863 at Hineston
   La
3. Give the letter of your Company and the number of your
   Regiment.
   Answer: Co I. 4 Louisiana Cavelry
4. Give branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry or 
   Navy, give name or names of vessels you served in, or in 
   what capacity.
   Answer: Private
5. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and
   what did you do until the close of the war?
   Answer: Discharged by unlimited pass
6. Where were you at the surrender?
   Answer: in Colorado County Texas
7. If a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you released, and 
   to where sent?
   Answer: [blank]
8. Did you take the oath of alligiance to the United States 
   Government at any time during the war? If so, when and where?
   Answer: No
9. How long have you been a resident of the State of Louisiana
   next preceding the date of this application. Where have you
   resided during that period?
   Answer: I have lived in Louisiana all my life.
10. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn?
   Answer: Farming earn scant living
11. Have you or your wife any estate in your own right, real or
    personal, and what is its value?
    Answer: I own 20 acres of land worth $200.00
12. Give name of two or more of your comrades, with their
    postoffice addresses?
    Answer: Z.P. Squres Cicamore Po John S Sanderson
    Cicamore La  B F Carroll Long Leaf La
13. Give your postoffice address and that of the two witnesses.
    Answer: Forest Hill is my Po. Cicamore is Z.P. Squyres Po
    I. Mizell Forest Hill La
Witness my hand on this 1st day of October 1914
G.W. Bass [his mark]
APPLICANT.

Witnesses:
Z.P. Squyres
I. Mizell