Confederate Pension Application for W. Wiley Noble, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Submitted by Sherry Sanford ********************************************** 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. Confederate Pension Parish of E.B. Rouge No. 1234 SOLDIERS APPLICATION FOR PENSION W. Wiley Noble P.O. Pride Filed: Dec. 13th 1898 Allowed: (blank) Quarterly Allowance $: (blank) Pension Allowed from: (blank) Rejected: (blank) (Signatures of President & Secretary, Board of Pension Comm. Is unreadable) Company and Regiment or Naval Service? Answer: (blank) Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received? Answer: (blank) Where and When Paroled or Discharged? Answer: (blank) If Discharged, Where Remaining until Surrender? Answer: (blank) Age? Answer: (blank) SOLDIERS APPLICATION FOR PENSION I, W. Wiley, a native of Louisiana and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at Pride, P.O. in the Parish of East Baton Rouge 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 act 125 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of 1898; and I do solemnly swear that I served the Confederate State honorably fro 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 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 receive the benefits of said Act No. 125 of 1898, 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: East Baton Rouge, La., born in 1845 2. When and where did you enlist? Answer: At Port Hudson in 1863 (Feb. 24) Co. "G" 4th La. Volunteers 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: Colonel Hunter (Houston?), Captain C.R. Cornelius - at time of discharge. 4. Were you wounded? If so, in what battles, and if not, state under what circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries. Answer: No 5. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any? Answer: none 6. If you have lost a limb, or an eye, state when, where and how? Answer: No 7. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the effects of service? Answer: No 8. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war? Answer: Was in prison until March 1865 and was paroled from that time up to close of war. Was captured December 1864 at Nashville, Tenn. 9. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged? Answer: none 10. Where were you at the surrender? Answer: East Baton Rouge Parish under parole & at home 11. If a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you released, and to where sent? Answer: A prisoner in Camp Chase Ohio - was released in February 1865 reached Richmond in early part of March 1865. 12. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any time during the war? Answer: No 13. If so, when, where and under what circumstances? Answer: Never 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? Answer: All my life right here except during the war 15. Are you married, or have you been married? Answer: I am married 16. If so, what is the size of your family? Answer: Wife and 3 children 17. What are the respective ages of your wife and children? Answer: Wife 49 years old - children 17, 15 and 14 years of age 18. How many children have you, and how many of each sex? Answer: 3 children -- all boys 19. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn? Answer: Farming 20. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: none. 21. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: none 22. How have you derived support for yourself, and family if you have one, for the last five years? Answer: Farming as well as I can with help of wife & children 23. Do you use intoxicants to any extent? Answer: No 24. Have you an attorney to look after this application? Answer: No 25. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you? Answer: (blank) 26. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice addresses? Answer: A.A. Croft, Pride, P.O. La., Chas. A Roberts, Baton Rouge, La. 27. Give your postoffice address and that of the two witnesses? Answer: Pride P.O., La. And of my witnesses is Pride P.O. and Baton Rouge, La. respectively Witness my hand on this 13th day of December 1898 (Signed) W.W.. Noble, applicant Witnesses: Abiah A. (His mark) Noble Chas. A. Roberts