Soldier's Application for Pension: Reese Perkins, P. O. Edgerly, Louisiana Submitted by Jan Craven ********************************************** 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. Notes from the transcriber: Reese Perkins, who made this application was the son of James Perkins and Catherine Henderson. He was married to Harriet Berry, daughter of George W. Berry and Caroline Moore. He died on 18 May 1915 and is buried at Big Woods Cemetery. Page 1 Parish of Calcasieu NO: 5883 Soldier's Application for Pension: Reese Perkins, P. O.: Edgerly, Louisiana Company and Regiment: A Ragsdales TX Cav Filed: Sept 7, 1906 Allowed: Quarterly Allowance,$: Pension Allowed from: Rejected: E. A. Brian, Secretary, Board of Commissioners. Company and Regiment or Naval Service?: Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received?: Disability - Where and How Occasioned?: Where and When Paroled or Discharged?: If Discharged, Where Remaining until Surrender?: Age?: Page 2 SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION I, Reese Perkins, a native of Louisiana and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at Edgerly in the Parish of Calcasieu 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 States honorably form 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 of government, and am entitled to receive the benefits of said Acct. No. 125 of 1898, as further shown by my answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and correct: 1. When were you born? Answer: January 12, 1838 2. Where were you born? Answer: West Fork, Calcasieu Parish, La. 3. When did you enlist in the Confederate service? Answer: January of 1863 4. Where did you enlist? Answer: Niblett's Bluff 5. In what command? Answer: Captain Lewell : Colonel Ragsdale 6. Give the letter of your Company? Answer: Company C 7. Give the number of your regiment? Answer: Ragsdale Texas Cavalry 8. Give branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry or Navy; in in navy, give name or names of vessels you served in, or in what capacity? Answer: Infantry and Cavalry 9. 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 of parole? Answer: Captain Lewell's and Colonel Ragsdale 10. Were you wounded? If so, in what battles,and if not, state under what circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries. Answer: I received injuries 11. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any? Answer: Fell off a horse and the horse fell on my leg, and am now partially disabled caused thereby 12. If you have lost a limb or an eye, state when, where and how? Answer: No 13. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the effects of service? Answer: I was not 14. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war? Answer: I was neither discharged or paroled. I was sick in the hospital at the time of the close of the war 15. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged? Answer: Dr. Jordan of Texas 16. Where were you at the surrender? Answer: at Sabine Pass 17. If a prisoner, at what camp, and where were you released, and to where sent? Answer: At Sabine Pass after the war, and went home from there 18. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any time during the war? Answer: No 19. If so, when, where and under what circumstances? Answer: 20. 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: 68 years in Calcasieu Parish 21. Are you married, or have you been married? Answer: I am married 22. If so, what is the size of your family? Answer: Wife & six children 23. What are the respective ages of your wife and children? Answer: Wife 66 years: - children 38 - 36 - 34 - 32 - 20 - 24 years, respectively 24. How many children have you, and how many each sex? Answer: Six: Four boys & Two girls 25. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn? Answer: No: No wages, raise a few vegetables 26. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: I have none 27. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: 25 acres of ground & a small house: Value of about $125.00 28. How have you served support for yourself, and family if you have one, for the last five years? Answer: By making a little farm, and now I am unable to do work enough for support 29. What prevents you from earning a living now? Answer: On having been disabled in army service by falling of a hors on my leg 30. Do you use intoxicants to any extent? Answer: No 31. Have you an attorney to look after this application? Answer: No 32. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you? Answer: 33. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice addresses? Answer: John Bilbo Deridder, La; Geo. Reeves Lake Charles, La; Mitchel Benoit Vinton, La; Desire Hebert Lake Arthur, La. 34. Give your postoffice address and that of two witnesses? Answer: Edgerly, Calcaseiu Parish, La. Witness; Lake Charles, La. Witness my hand on this 5 day of September, 1906 Reese Perkins (signed) Applicant Witnesses: W. A. Knapp L. C. Dees APPLICANT MUST GO BEFOER CLERK OF COURT. STATE OF LOUISIANA ] Personally appeared before me Eugene J. Levergne, Dp' CALCASIEU PARISH ] Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named Reese Perkins the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and explained to him as well as the statements and answers therein made, make oath that the statements and answers are true. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 5" day of September, 1906 (signed)Eugene J. Levergne Dp. 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 in their own oath; also any other information regarding the applicant's army service) STATE OF LOUISIANA ] Personally appeared before me Eugene J. Levergne, Dp' CALCASIEU PARISH ] Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named W. A. Knapp and L. C. Dees, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom 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 forgoing applicant, and that the fact 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 his honor. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 5" day of September, 1906. (signed)Eugene J. Levergne Dp. Clerk of Court *********************************************************************************************** [First application was denied. Second Application:] Page 1 5883 Parish of Calcasieu NO: 8202 Soldier's Application for Pension: Reese Perkins P. O.: DeQuincy Company and Regiment: A Ragsdales Batt. Cav Filed: June 8th 1911 Allowed: March 10th 1914 Quarterly Allowance,$: Pension Allowed from: Rejected: A. C. Allen, President E. F. Brian, Secretary, Board of Pension Commissioners Company and Regiment or Naval Service?: A Ragsdales Tex Batt. Cav Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received?: ?none? Disability - Where and How Occasioned?: Leg Where and When Paroled or Discharged?: At Home If Discharged, Where Remaining until Surrender?: Age?: 73 Page 2 SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION I, Reese Perkins, a native of Louisiana and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at DeQuincy in the Parish of Calcaseiu 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 States honorably form 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 of government, and am entitled to receive the benefits of said Acct. No. 125 of 1898, as further shown by my answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and correct: 1. When were you born? Answer: Jan 12th 1838 2. Where were you born? Answer: Calcasieu Parish Louisiana 3. When did you enlist in the Confederate service? Answer: March 1862. Work Military Road Alexandria to Nibletts Bluff La. 1863 Hauled gov cotton over this road and returned 1864 - in spring of fear ____?____. 4. Where did you enlist? Answer: Sabine Pass, Texas 5. In what command? Answer: Colo Griffin 6. Give the letter of your Company? Answer: A 7. Give the number of your regiment? Answer: Don't remember but think Nine 8. Give branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry or Navy; in in navy, give name or names of vessels you served in, or in what capacity? Answer: Calvary 9. 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 of parole? Answer: enlisted under Colo Griffin, served under Capt ________. Maj Ragdales Batalion. 10. Were you wounded? If so, in what battles,and if not, state under what circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries. Answer: I was injured by horse falling on me. Injured right leg. 11. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any? Answer: Accident happened at Sabine Pass on Taylors Bayou. 12. If you have lost a limb or an eye, state when, where and how? Answer: 13. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the effects of service? Answer: 14. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war? Answer: I was granted a leave of absence from hospital on or about the 10 of May 1865 to go home til in better shape and before well war closed. Page 3. 15. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged? Answer: Dr. Jordan 16. Where were you at the surrender? Answer: At home sick. 17. If a prisoner, at what camp, and where were you released, and to where sent? Answer: 18. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any time during the war? Answer: No 19. If so, when, where and under what circumstances? Answer: 20. 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: Life time 21. Are you married, or have you been married? Answer: No. Have been. Wife dead. 22. If so, what is the size of your family? Answer: Wife and eight children. wife and two children dead 23. What are the respective ages of your wife and children? Answer: Wife at death 68 years old. Boys living, about 42, 40, 38 and 32 Girls living 36 and 45 24. How many children have you, and how many each sex? Answer: Eight. Two dead. Two boys dead. 2 girls and 4 boys living 25. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn? Answer: None what ever 26. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: None 27. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: Twenty acres of land valued $40.00 which is the property of my self and children. 28. How have you derived support for yourself, and family if you have one, for the last five years? Answer: Living with my children 29. What prevents you from earning a living now? Answer: Old age - feble [sic] 30. Do you use intoxicants to any extent? Answer: No 31. Have you an attorney to look after this application? Answer: NO 32. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you? Answer: None 33. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice addresses? Answer: John Bebo, DeRidder, La D. Hebert, Lake Arthur, La Jim Reeves, Gillis, La Page 4. 34. Give your postoffice address and that of two witnesses? Answer: DeQuincy, La Witness my hand on this 3rd day of June, 1911 [signed] Reese Perkins Applicant Witnesses: [signed] D D Herford J M Gill both of DeQuincy, La ___________________________ APPLICANT MUST GO BEFOER CLERK OF COURT. STATE OF LOUISIANA ] Personally appeared before me J. W. Gardiner CALCASIEU PARISH ] Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named Reese Perkins the applicant, with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and explained to him as well as the statements and answers therein made, make oath that the statements and answers are true. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 3rd day of June, 1911 [signed] J. W. Gardiner 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 in their own oath; also any other information regarding the applicant's army service) STATE OF LOUISIANA ] Personally appeared before me J. W. Gardiner. CALCASIEU PARISH ] Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named D. D. Herford and J. M. Gill, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom 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 forgoing applicant, and that the fact 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 hishonor. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 3rd day of June, 1911. [signed] J. W. Gardiner Clerk of Court *********************************************************************************************** Third Application *********************************************************************************************** Page 1 Parish of Calcaseiu NO: 5883 [unreadable mark] Soldier's Application for Pension. [Name] Reese Perkins P. O.: DeQuincy Company and Regiment: A Ragsdale's Bttn Filed: May 17th 1913 Allowed: Quarterly Allowance,$: Pension Allowed from: Rejected: ________________________________ President, E. A. Brian [signed] ,Secretary Board of Pension Commissions. Company and Regiment or Naval Service?: A Ragsdales Bttn Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received?: Disability - Where and How Occasioned?: At [sic] Where and When Paroled or Discharged?: At Home If Discharged, Where Remaining until Surrender?: Age?: 75 Page 2 SOLDIER'S APPLICATION FOR PENSION I, Reese Perkins , a native of Louisiana and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at De Quincy in the Parish of Louisiana [sic] 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 of 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: Jany 12" 1838 in Calcasieu Parish, La. 2. When and where did you enlist? Answer: In 1864, about May, at Nibletts Bluff, La 3. Give the letter of your Company and the number of your Regiment Answer: "A" Ragsdales Battallion 4. Give branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Cavalry or Navy; if in Navy, give name or names of vessels you served in, or in what capacity. Answer: Cavalry. 5. If discharged or paroled from the army where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war? Answer: Was taken sick and stayed in Hospital 35 days in April & May 1865. Left Hospital May 10" 1865 and went home on furlough. 6. Where were you at the surrender? Answer: At home still sick. 7. If a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you when released, and to where sent? Answer: No 8. Did you take the oath of allegiance 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: All my life 10. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn? Answer: No 11. Have you or your wife any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: No 12. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice addresses? Answer: John Bilbo, DeRidder, La [?] Desire Hebert, Lake Arthur, La 13. Give your postoffice address and that of two witnesses? Answer: DeQuincy, La Witnesses: Lake Charles, Witness my hand on this 13 day of May, 1903 [signed] Reese Perkins Applicant Witnesses: [signed] L. C. Dees [signed] E. B. Lyons ********************************************************************************* Supplemental Papers accompanying the Pension Applications Col. J. A. Chalaron, President E. F. Brian, Secretary New Orleans, La Baton Rouge, La State of Louisiana Office of Board of Pension Commissioners Baton Rouge, La., Sep 7th 1906 To Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington DC Dear Sir: This Board, in the discharge of its duties under Article 303 of the Constitution of 1898 of the state of Louisiana, and of act No. 125 of its General Assembly for the same year, creating a Board of Pension Commissioners, respectfully apply for information from your records, elative to Reese Perkins of Company A Ragsdalls Tex Cavalry. How is he reported in the rolls of this company? Very respectfully, [signed] J A Chalaron, President ************************** [left side of paper water damaged and unreadable] Right side: Address: The Military Secretary, War Department, Washington, D. C." 1162826 War Department, The Military Secretary's Office. Washington, September 11, 1906 Respectfully returned to The President, Louisiana Board of Pension Commissioners, Baton Rouge. There are no rolls on file in this office of Company A, Ragsdale's Regiment, Texas Cavalry, C. S. A. The records show, however, that one R. Perkins was a private of Captain Patillo's Company, Unattached Texas Cavalry, C. S. A., afterwards transferred to Company F, Daly's, afterwards Ragsdale's Battalion, Texas Cavalry, C. S. A. His name appears only on an undated muster roll(the only roll on file), which shows that he was enlisted December 5, 1863, at Calcasieu, [sic] for the war. No further record has been found. [signed] F. C. Ainsworth The Military Secretary. ************************* State Of Louisiana Parish of Calcasieu Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally came and appeared Reese Perkins, to me personally known to be a resident of said Parish and State, who upon being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he has this day made application for pension under Article 303 of the Constitution of 1898 and subsequent Acts of the State of Louisiana thereunder: that in addition to his filling in the application provided by the pension office for that purpose, and in order to place before the Pension Board all the facts relative to his service as a soldier in the Confederate Army deposes and says: That in the spring of 1862 he attempted to join the regular service and made application to the military authorities at Opelousas, who examined him and rejected his services for the reason that it was then considered that he was suffering from lung trouble, and he was refused admission into the army; that still wishing to be of service to his country and to his state he came home and enlisted under Capt. W. M. Perkins in building a miliary road from Nibletts Bluff on the Sabine River to Alexandria, and as soon as that road was completed he became teamster under the same officers and as such hauled cotton, etc. back and forth from the Sabine River to the Red River until the spring of 1864 when he regularly enlisted in Company A of Ragsdale's Battalion at Niblett's Bluff, Louisiana and served with said Cavalry Battalion until the close of the war. [signed] Reese Perkins Sworn to and subscribed before me at Lake Charles, La. on this 13th day of May A. D. 1913. [signed] A T Gossett Clerk of Court. ********************************** State of Louisiana Parish of Beauregard Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally came and appeared, J. C. Bilbo, who being by me first duly sworn, deposes and says: Tat he is well acquaintedwith one Reese Perkins; That he and the said Reese Perkins soldiered together during the Civil War in Company "A" Ragsdale Battallion, of Walker's Division; That he knows of his own personal knowledge that Reese Perkins served during the entire war and was honorably discharged at Sabine Pass, Texas. [signed} J C Bilbo Sworn to and subscribed before me, at DeRidder, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, this the 8th day of January, 1914. [signed] Red C. Cay Notary Public ********************************* Mayo Knapp Abstract Co. United States of America State of Louisiana Parish of Calcasieu City of Lake Charles Be it known that before me, Augustus M. Mayo, a Notary Public, in and for the Parish and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, personally came and appeared George W. Reeves of the same city, parish and state who, being duly sworn, according to have deposed and says: That affiant is Eighty-three years of age, and is a resident of said Parish and State; that affiant is personally known and acquainted with Reese Perkins, who is making application for pension, and has known said Perkins since several years before the said war, That said Reese Perkins joined the army at the time affiant did, and was also enlisted in Company "A: of Ragsdale's Battalion Walker's Division, and that said Perkins remained in the said company from the time of enlistment until the close of said war and were mustered out together. That affiant was the bunk mate of said Perkins during said war. Attest: [signed] Fred A. Baumgarten George W. [his mark] Reeves [signed] Geo H Podrasky Sworn to and subscribed before me, this twenty-eighth day of January, A.D. 1914 [signed] Augustus Mayo Notary Public, Calcasieu Pr. La.