Confederate Pension Application of George H. Fogleman. Submitted by Glen Davis ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. [Biographical Note: George H. Fogleman, was born Oct, 1842 in Avoyelles Parish, LA, the son of John FOGLEMAN and Sarah Simmons FOGLEMAN. George married Mary Ella EPPS on 18 Nov 1869 in Avoyelles Parish. He and his family arrived in Freestone county TEXAS in 1872 by covered wagon. He resided at Laney, TX for about 10 years, and then moved to Teague, Texas. His estimated date of death is 1910 in Leon county, Texas] NOTE: The following material is reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives, Austin Texas. 11527 Endorsements Hereon for Comptroller's Use Exclusively FORM No. 1 AMENDED OCTOBER 1, 1902 Confederate Pension Application Name of Applicant: Geo H. Fogleman County: Leon Post Office: Buffalo, Texas Comptroller's File No. 11527 I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in support thereof, and I recommend that the application be APPROVED this MARCH 20, 1908 E. A. Bolmes Chief Pension Clerk I hereby .............................................. the application for pension, this .............. day of ..................... J. W. Stephens Comptroller No Application Rejected by County Judge or County Commissioners Should Be Forwarded to Comptroller [end of page] Note: The law provides that pensions can begin only on the first day of April and October of each year. FORM No. 1. Amended October 1, 1902 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the late Confederacy for pension under the Act of May 12, 1899. Hereafter use no blank but this. (note: Answers to following questions are in CAPS. THE STATE OF TEXAS County of: LEON To the Honorable County Judge of LEON County, Texas. Your petitioner, GEO. H. FOGLEMAN respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of LEON County, in the State of Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A. D. 1899, the same being an act entitled "An act to carry into effect the amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to make an appropriation therefor," and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to the following questions are true. NOTE ---- Applicant must make answer to all of the following questions, and such answers must be written out plainly in ink. Q. What is your name? Answer: GEO H. FOGLEMAN Q. What is your age? Answer: 63 YEARS OF AGE Q. In what County do you reside? Answer: LEON Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your postoffice (sic) address? Answer: 4 MONTHS AND BUFFALO LEON CO. TEXAS IS MY PO ADDRESS Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been rejected? If so, state when and where. Answer: NO Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? Answer: FARMING Q. What is your physical condition? Answer: BAD Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a support, state what caused such disability. Answer: OLD AGE. PILES KIDNEY & BLADDER DISEASE Q. In what State was your command originally organized? Answer: LOUISIANA Q. How long did you serve? Give date of enlistment and discharge. Answer: ENLISTED JUNE 1861 - DISCHARGED AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR Q. What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Answer: COMPANY "F" 8TH LA REG OF INFANTRY Q. State whether you served in the infantry, artillery, cavalry, or the navy. Answer: INFANTRY Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran donation land certificate you have received. Answer: NO NOTHING Q. What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such property? Give a list of such property and value. Answer: 1 Mule Valued at $40.00 - 1 WAGON VALUED AT 15.00 - PLOW TOOLS 10.00 - TOTAL $65.00 Q. What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years prior to the date of this application? Answer: NONE Q. What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value? Answer: NONE Q. What income, if any, do you receive? Answer: NONE Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of property and means of subsistence? Answer: YES Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? Answer: YES Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of becoming a beneficiary under this law? Answer: NO Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? Answer: NO Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident citizen of this State? Answer: YES Q. If you originally enlisted in the Confederate service from the State of Texas, were you at the date of passage of this act a bona fide resident citizen of the State of Texas? Answer: YES (note: originally enlisted in LA) Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such other proceedings be had in the premises as required by law. (Signature of Applicant) G H FOGLEMAN Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of JAN A. D. 1906. (L/S) J. M. CHATHAM County Judge LEON County, Texas AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES (NOTE ---- There must be at least two credible witnesses.) THE STATE OF TEXAS County of LEON Before me C. E. GRAYSON a Notary Public of LEON County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared H. G. EPPS & W. H. RICHARDS who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, who being duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know G H FOGLEMAN the above named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know that the said G H FOGLEMAN is unable to support himself by labor of any sort. (Signature of Witness) H G EPPS (Signature of Witness) W. H. RICHARDS Sworn to and subscribed before me this 13th day of FEB A. D. 1906 (L/S) C. E GRAYSON, Notary Public LEON County, Texas [end of page] AFFIDAVIT OF PHYSICIAN THE STATE OF TEXAS County of LEON Before me .......... County Judge of ........County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared ........ who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, who being by me duly sworn on oath, states that he has carefully and thoroughly examined ........ applicant for a pension, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities which render him unable to labor at any work or calling sufficient to earn a support for himself: OLD AGE - PILES - KIDNEY TROUBLE - INCONTINENCE OF URINE. (Signature of Physician) J. J. SEALE (L/S) J. M. CHATHAM County Judge LEON County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY JUDGE THE STATE OF TEXAS County of LEON I, J. M. CHATHAM County Judge of LEON County, State of Texas, do hereby certify that on the 16th day of FEBY (sic) A. D. 1906, before me came on to be heard the application of GEO H FOGLEMAN for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law of this State, Approved May 12, A. D. 1899; that the answers of said applicant to the questions propounded were made under oath as the same appear in writing in the foregoing application; that the affidavits of the witnesses who are credible citizens were made before me as the same hereinbefore appear, and that the foregoing affidavit of Doctor J. J. SEALE who is a reputable practicing physician of this county, was made before me. I also certify that said applicant GEO H FOGLEMAN, is not an inmate of the Texas Confederate Home, nor otherwise disqualified under the provision of Section 12, of the Confederate Pension law. I further certify that after considering all the proceedings had before me relative to the said application for a pension by the said GEO H FOGLEMAN I find the said applicant is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and I hereby approve said application. Witness my hand and seal of office at CENTERVILLE TEXAS this 16th day of FEBY A. D. 1906. J. M. CHATHAM County Judge LEON County, State of Texas CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE STATE OF TEXAS County of LEON We, the undersigned members of the Commissioners Court of LEON County, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing application of GEO H FOGLEMAN for a pension, together with the proof in support thereof, was duly submitted by Hon. J. M. CHATHAM County Judge of this LEON County, to the Commissioners of this LEON County, at a regular term thereof on the 16th day of FEBY A. D. 1906 and after a careful consideration of the same we find the said applicant is is lawfully entitled to the pension provided by the Confederate Pension Law of this State, and we hereby approve said application. Witness our hands and seal of office at CENTERVILLE Texas this 16th day of FEBY A. D. 1906. Jas Fleming A P McCall S H Cadenhead W. A. Sparks [end of page] DEPOSITION IN PENSION CLAIMS, WITH CAPTION AND CERTIFICATE EX PARTE IN RE APPLICANT FOR CONFEDERATE PENSION GEO. H. FOGLEMAN Applicant for Confederate Pension Under Act May 12, 1899, pending in County Commissioners Court of Freestone County, Texas before the Honorable County Judge of said county. Answers and depositions of (1) LEONCE SANDOZ AND JULES SITTIG OF OPELOUSAS ST LANDRY PARISH LA to the accompanying interrogatories DIRECT & CROSS propounded to THEM in the above entitled cause taken before (3) YVES ANDREPONT CLERK OF COURT OF ST LANDRY PARISH LA in accordance with the accompanying AGREEMENT To the first interrogatory the said LEONCE SANDOZ Witness, answers: MY NAME IS LEONCE SANDOZ - MY AGE 62 YEARS AND MY PRESENT RESIDENCE AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS IS OPELOUSAS LA. To the second interrogatory the witness answers: YES. To the 3rd interrogatory: KNEW HIM AS A MEMBER OF CO. F 8TH LA REGT FROM THE TIME THE COMPANY WAS MUSTERED IN THE CONFEDERATE SERVICES UNTIL MY TRANSFER FROM VIRGINIA TO LOUISIANA IN OCTOBER, 1862. 4th - YES. 5th - ENTERED IN THE 8TH LA REGT - MUSTERED IN JUNE 1861 AND SERVED IN CO. F INFANTRY. 6th - FROM RELIABLE INFORMATION HE IS Cross interrogatory - 1 - SERVED PERSONALLY WITH HIM. HE IS THE ONLY ONE OF THAT NAME I KNOW OF. Cross Int No. 2 I AM Cross Int No. 3 I HAVE RELIABLE INFORMATION FROM JUDGE H. B. DAVISS OF FAIRFIELD, TEXAS AND FROM LETTERS OF APPLICANT. Cross Int No. 4 I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF HIM DESERTING FROM THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE. (s) LEONCE SANDOZ Before me this 31st day of JANUARY 1906 Yves Andrepont Clerk of Court [end of page] To the first interrogatory the said JULES C. SITTIG Witness, answers: MY NAME IS JULES C SITTIG, MY AGE IS 65 AND MY PRESENT RESIDENCE AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS IS OPELOUSAS, LA. To the 2d Interrogatory the witness answers: YES. I KNEW HIM FROM THE TIME WE ENLISTED TOGETHER UNTIL HE WAS WOUNDED To the 3d Interrogatory the witness answers: I FIRST KNEW HIM WHEN THE CO WAS ORGANIZED IN 1861. WE WERE MUSTERED IN TOGETHER IN NEW ORLEANS IN THE SAME CO. COMPANY "F" OF THE 8TH LOUISIANA REGT. To the 4th Interrogatory the witness answers: YES, IN COMPANY ABOVE NAMED To the 5th Interrogatory this witness answers: CO. F 8TH LOUISIANA REGT IN 1861 AT NEW ORLEANS. I DO NOT REMEMBER HIM AFTER HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED. To the 6th Interrogatory the witness answers: I KNOW NOTHING OF HIS PRESENT CONDITION EXCEPT FROM HIS LETTERS AND ONE FROM JUDGE H. B. DAVISS Cross Interrogatories, 2d Witness To the 1st Cross Int. the witness answers: I KNEW OF NO OTHER GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN IN ABOVE NAMED OR OTHER REGIMENT To the 2d Cross Int. the witness answers: I AM To the 3d Int. the witness answers: MY INFORMATION IS FROM LETTERS OF APPLICANT AND FROM JUDGE H. B. DAVISS, WHICH I CONSIDER RELIABLE. Signed: JULES C. SITTIG Before me this 31st day of JANUARY 1906. Yves Andrepont [end of page] State of Louisiana ) Parish of Rapides ) Before me, the undersigned authority, a Notary Public duly commissioned and qualified in and for the Parish of Rapides and State of Louisiana, personally came and appeared ISAIAH FOGLEMAN, a citizen and resident of the CITY OF ALEXANDRIA, RAPIDES PARISH, LOUISIANA, who being by me first duly sworn, does depose and certify as follows: That George Fogleman, a resident of Buffalo, Leon County of the State of Texas is affiant's brother, and that the said George Fogleman served as a soldier in the Confederate Army, and that said George Fogleman was a member of the Eighth Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, Confederate State of America. (s) ISAIAH FOGLEMAN Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14th day of Jan. 1906 Robert A. Hunter N o t a r y P u b l I c [end of page] State of Louisiana ) Parish of Rapides ) Personally before me came HENDERSON B. TAYLOR who upon oath declares that he was a member of Pratts Company, Eighth Reg. La Volunteers C.S.A. That George Fogleman, enlisted in said Company in 1861 and was a member thereof. (s) H B TAYLOR Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of May 1904 G. T. Hawkins Not. Pub. My fee $1.50 [end of page] Comptroller's Department State of Texas Austin Feby 26th 1906 To the Military Secretary War Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I have the honor to request the military record of GEO. H. FOGLEMAN who is reported to have enlisted in Company F , 8th Regiment Louisiana Infantry in the service of the Confederate States Army. Purpose: The person above named is an apllicant for a Confederate pension granted by this State, and I desire to verify his proof of service. Very respectfully. J. W. Stephens Comptroller [end of page] Address: " The Military Secretary War Department, Washington D.C. " 1105081 WAR DEPARTMENT, THE MILITARY SECRETARY'S OFFICE Washington March 3, 1906. Respectfully returned to The Comptroller State of Texas, Austin. The records show that George Fogleman, private, Company F, 8th Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A., was enrolled June 1861; that he was surrendered May 26, 1865, at New Orleans, Louisiana, by General E. K. Smith, and that he was paroled June 21, 1865 at Washington, Louisiana. F. C. Ainsworth The Military Secretary [end of page] INTERROGATORIES TO WITNESSES IN PENSION CLAIMS EX PARTE G. H .FOGLEMAN Applicant for Confederate Pension Pending in the Honorable Commissioners' Court of LEON County, Texas, before the Honorable County Judge of said County. The Honorable County Judge of LEON County, Texas will please take notice that, five days after the service hereof, applicant herein will apply to the Clerk of the County Court of said County and State, for a commission to take the deposition of ISAIH (sic) FOGLEMAN who resides in THE PARISH OF RAPIDES, ALEXANDER (sic) in the State of LOUISIANA in answer to the following Interrogatories and such cross- interrogatories as may be propounded by the County Judge of said County, which will be read in evidence upon the hearing of applicant's claim for pension in behalf of applicant; said testimony is material and indispensable to applicant in furnishing the required proof to his claim for a pension under the Act of May 12, 1899, the application for which is now pending before the Honorable County Judge, and the facts necessary and required to be proven under the provisions of said Act, applicant believes can not be proven by any witness residing in the County of LEON and State of Texas, of which he is a bona fide resident. (Applicant.) Attorney ........ for Applicant Direct Interrogatories to be Propounded to the Witness I. FOGLEMAN Int. 1 What is your name? Age? Present place of Residence and postoffice (sic) address: ISAIAH FOGLEMAN 67 , ALEXANDRIA LA. Int. 2 Do personally know, or did you at any time know GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN who is an applicant for pension under Act of May 12, 1899? HE IS MY BROTHER - I OF COURSE KNOW HIM Int. 3 How long have you known the said GEO. H. FOGLEMAN applicant for pension and when and where did you first know him? ALL HIS LIFE Int. 4 Do you personally know that the said GEO. H. FOGLEMAN applicant for pension enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor? YES Int. 5 Do you personally know in what company and regiment the said GEO. H. FOGLEMAN applicant, enlisted and served in the Confederate army? When? Where? And time of service? If you personally knew and so have stated that he enlisted in the Confederate Navy, then state: When? Where? And how long he so served? YES. CO. F, 8TH LA VOL. JUNE 1861. NEW ORLEANS. IN VA DURING THE WAR. Int. 6 Do you further know that GEO. H. FOGLEMAN the said applicant for pension, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort? I CAN'T SAY POSITIVELY IN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. HAVEN'T SEEN HIM FOR SOME TIME. I KNEW HE WAS WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG AND HAS BEEN IN FEABLE (sic) CONDITION AND HEALTH Cross Interrogatories. To be propounded to I. FOGLEMAN Cross interrogatory 1. If, in answer to the foregoing direct interrogatories, you have stated that you personally know or did know said applicant, and that you know that he enlisted in the service of the Confederacy and performed the duties of a soldier or sailor, and having named the company and regiment in which applicant so enlisted and served, then please state fully what is the source of such knowledge? And state whether or not you know or at any (sic) you knew of any other soldier or sailor by the name of GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN serving in the same company or regiment in which you said the applicant GEO H. FOGLEMAN enlisted or if you have stated that said applicant enlisted and served in the navy of the Confederacy, then state whether or not you know any other sailor of the same name as said GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN applicant, serving in the same command? THE APPLICANT IS MY BROTHER. I NEVER KNEW ANY OTHER If you say that you so knew other soldiers or sailors of the same name of applicant's, then can you and how do you identify and locate the one from the other or others? I CORRESPOND WITH MY BROTHER & KNEW NO OTHER BY THIS NAME Cross Int. 2. Are you positively certain that said GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN applicant for pension, is the identical person serving as testified by you? YES Cross Int. 3 If you have answered Direct Interrogatory No. 6 in the affirmative, then please state your source of knowledge or information? Is not this your answer simply based on conjecture? I KNOW HE IS MY BROTHER Cross Int. 4 Do you know whether or not the said GEORGE H. FOGLEMAN applicant for pension ever deserted the service in the Confederate army or navy? I WAS IN THE SAME CO & REGT WITH MY BROTHER & SERVED TO THE END OF THE WAR - AND I KNOW HE NEVER DESERTED ISAIAH FOGLEMAN The State of Louisiana County of RAPIDES I, WILLIAM W WHITTINGTON, NOT PUB & CITY Judge of the city of Alexandria do hereby waive copy of interrogatories, time and issuance of commission, and it is hereby agreed that the answers to the herein above direct and cross interrogatories of the said witness may be attached hereto. W W WHITTINGTON City Judge of Alexandria Parish of Rapides La & Not. Public in and for said City and Parish and State [end of page] [end of this file] Biographical Note: Mary T. NELSON, widow of Elijah FOGLEMAN, was born Jan 1825, in St Andrews Parish, LA. She and Elijah married 03 Jan 1844 in St Andrews Parish. Elijah was born in 1821, in either St Landry or Avoyelles Parish, LA, son of John FOGLEMAN (of Virginia), and Polly SANDEFUR (of North Carolina). Elijah & M.T. moved to Box Elder in Red River county, Texas in 1871 where he remained for the rest of his life. Other Fogleman brothers known to have been in the Confederate Service were: Amaziah, George H., Elijah Louis (note, this is not the deceased husband of MT Fogleman), and Isaiah.