Branch, Theophilus in the Union Army; Winn, Rapides, LA
Submitter: Junior Branch
Date: 17 Oct 2006
Source: NARA
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                          General Affidavet

  For neighbors,employers.or fellow workmen of soldier,(other than relatives)
  who knew him before his enlistment,or since his return from the army
  State of Louisiana,County of Winn.In the matter of the application for
  pension of Mrs Mary Branch,Widow of Theophilus Branch No 617,622 co 1st.
  reg La.cav.Scouts.On this 2nd,day of July 1898 personally appeared
  before mea Clerk of Court in and for the aforesaid county,duly authorized
  to administer oaths,John F.Smith aged 53 years,a resident of Sills P.O.
  in the county of Winn and State of Louisiana whose Post-Office is
  Sills,Parish of Winn LA.Well known to me to be respectable and
  entiled to credit,and who,being duly sworn,declare in  relation to the
  aforesaid case as follows;That he has been well and personally acquainted
  with Mary Branch for 50 years respectively and that Theophilus Branch her
  husband,was arrested by Texas confederate Cavalry,and carried away
  by the force,and the said Branchwas away some two or three weeks,
  and he then returned,and in company with this affiant,went to
  Alexandria,LA.and enlisted in the United States Army,affiant does
  not believe that said Theophilus Branch was ever in the Confederate
  Army,or at least on his return after he was carried away he made
  no mention of haveing joined said army,and affiant knows that he,
  Branch told him that he had gotten away from the cavalry that had
  arrested him,and he knows further that said Branch was not in the
  confederate army,prior to the time he was carried away by this
  cavalry,nor was he in the confederat service at any time subsequent
  to his return from this cavalry


       NO CONFEDERATE  SERVICE