Richland Parish Louisiana Military Records Isaac W. Choat Jr., Civil War Pension Record
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 Military: Records of Isaac W. Choat
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Parish of Richland
No. 3489
Soldier’s Application for Pension
The Board Reserves the Right to Call for Additional Testimony
Isaac W. Choat Jr.
P. O. Boughton, La.

Company and Regiment:  Co. B 27 La Inf.
Filed:  Mar. 20th, 1901
Allowed:
Quarterly Allowance, $ Pension Allowed from:
Rejected:  
NOTE:  On the back is a hand written note:  Applicant sworn of his Capture at Jackson, Mis. 
Length of his stay at home cannot be guesed.
DOCUMENT 2
	I, Isaac W. Choate, a native of Mississippi and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident 
at Boughton in the Parish of Richland in said State 
of Louisiana, and who was a soldier, (sailor or marine as the case may be) in the war between 
the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under act 123 of the 
General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of 1808; and I do solemnly swear that I served 
the Confederate States honorably from the date of my enlistment until the close of the civil war, 
(or until discharged or paroled as the case may be,) as shown by my 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 received the benefits of said Act No. 125 of 1808, as further 
shown By my answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and correct:
1. In what town, county, State, country and year were you born:
Answer:  Mississippi Claybourne County in 1836
2. When and where did you enlist, and in what command?
Answer:  I enlisted in Louisiana in 1862 in the twenty seventh Louisiana Regiment 3. Give 
the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you enlisted, and under whom you 
were serving at the date of your discharge or parole.
Answer:  Col. Marks, Colonel of the 27 Regiment
McLaurin was Lieut. Col.  I was taken prisoner at Jackson, Miss and paroled there.
 Were you wounded?  If so, in what battles, and if not, state under what circumstances during 
the war you received injury or injuries:
Answer:  Yes, in the battle of Jackson, Miss.
4. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any:
Answer:  by a piece of bombshell slight
5. If you have lost a limb or an eye, state when, where and how.
Answer:  None
Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the effects of services?  
Answer:  Neither
If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer:  I was paroled shortly before the close of war
6. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged?
Answer:
10. NOTE:  this question was cut off of copied page
11.If a prisoner, in what camp, and when were you released and to whom
Answer:  I was a prisoner but in no camp.  I was paroled by the Regulars of one Federal Army.
12. Did you take he oath of allegiance to the United States
Government at any time during the war?
Answer:  No No No
13. If so, when, where and under what circumstances?
Answer:
14. 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 of time?
Answer:  62 years in Richland Parish
15. Are you married or have you been married?
Answer:  Yes.  I have been married 38 years.
16. If so, what is the size of your family?
Answer:  My self and three children now.
17. What are the respective ages of your wife and children?
Answer:  My wife is dead also eight children, the age of living 26, 18, 9.  Two oldest are married.
18. How many children have you, and how many of each sex?
Answer:  3 girls no boys
19. Are you engaged in any business?  If so what do you earn?
Answer:  I took a mail contract, health would not admit of my carrying it.
20. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and 
What is its value?
Answer:  None at all
21. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and
What is its value?
Answer:  My wife owned 50 acres of land at her death.  Valued at $450 Which was her parapherral 
property in which I have no interest.  We live on part in property.
22. How have you derived support for yourself, and family if you have
One, for the last five years?
Answer:  by Farming
23. What prevents you from earning a living now?
Answer:  disease’s contracted in the Army viz. Rheumatism both blind 
and protruding Piles and a broken constitution
24. Do you use any intoxicants to any extent?
Answer:  No None
25. Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer:  None
26. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you.
Answer:
27. Give names of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice 
Addresses.
Answer:  Col. Cooper Dun Chapman, Archibald, La.
W. F. Choate, W. A. Shipley, Boughton, La.
Lafayette Boies, Boughton, La
28. Give your postoffice address and that of the two witnesses.
Answer:  Boughton, La.
WITNESS my hand [Unreadable]
WITNESSES:                      Isaac W. Choate
Nade Nunnery [?]
S. T. Amery

	APPLICANT MUST GO BEFORE CLERK OF COURT
STATE OF LOUISIANA           Personally appeared before me, J. W. 
Richland Parish              Summerlin Clerk of the District Court

of said Parish, the above named Isaac W. Choate the applicant, with who I am personally 
acquainted, and having the application read and explained to him as well as the statements 
and answers therein made, made oath that the statements and answers are true.
	Witness my and and seal of office, the 4th day of March 1901.
				J. W. Summerlin, Clerk
(If possible, the two witnesses as to character should have served with the applicant in the 
army, and if so, let them, or either, state it in their oath; also any other information regarding 
the applicant’s army services.)
STATE OF LOUISIANA           Personally appeared before me, J. W.
Richalnd Parish 	      Summerlin Clerk of the District Court of 

said Parish, the above named Nade Nunnery [?] and S. T. Amery two of the subscribing witnesses to 
the foregoing application, with who I am personally acquainted, and know to be citizens of veracity 
and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing 
applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in his application are correct and true, to 
the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said 
applicant’s habits are good and free from dishonor.
	Witness my hand and seal of office, this 4th day of March 1901.
DOCUMENT #3
STATE OF LOUISIANA				5th Justice Court
Parish of Richland
	Personally appeared before me the undersigned or **** Isaac W.  Choat who after being duly sworn 
deposes and says he Enlisted in the Confederate Service as a Private in Febry. 1861 at New Orleans my Co.  
Was Co. B 27th Reg La Infantry and my services was mostly at Jackson & Vicksburg Miss.  Sworn to on this 
18th March 1901.
P. H. Austin, J. P. 			I. W. Choate 5th Ward Parish of Richland, La.

DOCUMENT #4
					Boughton La July 28th 1901
Office of Board of Pension Assistance
Baton Rouge, La

	I rcd. you’re very unwelcome letter a few days ago informing me of my application being rejected.  
Of course, your reason may be Justifiable if correct.  I was Captured on the 11th July 1863, whether 
your records shows this or not.  I could not say how being I was at home not but a short time.  
I was with Gen. Taylor on Red River as almost all paroled soldiers were.  Seeing our Services of no 
use and no commander.  However and tried to work their being no special need of our services.  I will 
ask that you reconsider the matter.  I am old can scarcely walk and cannot see to read with the glasses 
only know my neighbors by their voice.
					Yours Truly
I. W. Choate

W. B.  I am myself an old Reb and the above has been a neighbor of mine his entire life.  He started out 
in Infantry (page torn)and sometimes offers his (rest of page missing)
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A thing symptoms of Rheumatism.  I. W. Choate the present Subject and applicant is certainly entitled pension.  
I write this after receiving your letter from him and my sympathy for him are real.  I write this proudly for 
that I personally known both as my old friend and my knowledge of being a confederate soldier and present 
affectionate Christian.
				With higher Regards than yours Truly,
				P. H. Austin, J. P. 5th Ward
				Parish Richland, La