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

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SOLDIER'S APPLICATION for PENSION 

I, G.W. Bass, a native of 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: I was born in Rapides Parish Louisiana in 1840
2. When and where did you enlist?
   Answer: Hineston Rapides Parish
3. Give the letter of your Company and the number of your
   Regiment.
   Answer: Iveys Co I. 6th 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: Cavelry
5. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and
   what did you do until the close of the war?
   Answer: I was sent home by Capt Ivey on an unlimited pass to
   stay until he called for me. I only weyed 70lbs an was
   considered to light for service
6. Where were you at the surrender?
   Answer: at home not being called out again by Capt Ivey
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: I did not
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: I am on a little 20 acre farm
11. Have you or your wife any estate in your own right, real or
    personal, and what is its value?
    Answer: My wife owns 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 Glenmora La Ben Carroll Long Leaf La
    Jno Sanderson Cicamore La. Jim E Bass Kirby Ville La  
13. Give your postoffice address and that of the two witnesses.
    Answer: Mt postoffice address is Forest Hill La. also the 
    two undersigned witnesses

Witness my hand on this 10th day of June 1915
G.W. Bass [his mark]
APPLICANT.

Witnesses:
Z.P. Squyres
John S Sanderson