Civil War Pension: Carter H. UPCHURCH; Jackson Co., TN Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Mary Lu Nelson Johnson http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* UPCHURCH, CARTER H., Co. C, 25th Infty Regt, CSA, Pension #5147, State of Tennessee Application 6 June 1903: Resident of Nameless, Jackson Co., TN, born Jackson Co, TN, enlisted July 18, 1861, Col. Sydney S. Stanton, Capts. L. H. McCarver then Capt. Green. In Battle of Fishing Creek, ?Barts Creek, Murfreesboro, Boonsville, Shiloh, Farmington, Perryville KY. Was not wounded. Was captured at Murfreesboro, TN. Attended by physician Dr. Snodgrass. Was in prison at Ft. Delaware until June 1865, did not take Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. Married, age 67 wife age 77, granddaughter age 7. Engaged in no kind of business and earn nothing. Have no estate. One mule is all the property I own. I am very poor and indigent and needy. My wife owns a little place worth about $100.00. Hyave tried to work for it [my support] as long as I was able to do so. Do not use intoxicants to any extent. Have been a resident of Tennessee all my life. Attorney is W. H. Young of Gainesboro. Signed C. H. Upchurch John H. Chaffin, Co. Court Clerk, took the statements of witnesses John Keith and John Cole: John Keith stated applicant was his messmate and a member of his company. John Cole states he was in the same Federal Prison with applicant and when he left in 1865, applicant was still in prison; that applicant is very indigent and needy circumstances and is an honorable citizen. 1 February 1905, from The Military Secretary’s Office, War Department, Washington, D. C. to Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners, Nashville, Tennessee. “The records show that C.H. Upchurch was a member of Company G, 25th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A. On the roll of the company dated April 7, 1864, last roll on which his name appears, he is reported absent, deserted May 15, 1863. No record of his release as alleged has been found. “The records show, however, that one C.H. Upchurch, Company K, 4th Tennessee Cavanry, C.S.A., was received at Fort Delaware March 7, 1864, and that he was released on oath of allegiance May 4, 1865. The name of this man has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of Company K, 4th Tennessee Cavanry, C.S.A.” 14 Feby 1905, statement of Wm Dennis, Trustee of Jackson Co, TN, that “there is assessed to C.H. Upchurch a small tract of very poor land, 71 acres at the valuation of $125.00…I am informed that said C.H. Upchurch does not own said land but that it owned by his wife, and is assessed to him as matter of convenience”. 22 May 1905, Nameless, Tennessee, letter from C. H. Upchurch apparently in his own handwriting to Frank A. Moses [sic] Special Examiner: “Dere ?cold command in ancer to your letter you wrot to me C.H. Upchurcy by frank Richmond January last I have never heard any thing from my Claim I filede for some help as yt I want you to writ to me whatt is the hendernce is I want to know the reasion why I am in need I wold bee glad if I cold gite help iff I ame intitle to it I think I ame to some help iff as mutch as any off oure old ?cowards that was inn the sutheron men is iff didn’t think bee ninty eigh years old so we are both moving the grave my penicion is all my help for us to stay togerther and now you find out how it was that stopt me filling you will oblige me you aire ther and I am here you tell me when the bord meets next you may reed this letter to ??? your please if I can ??? com to nashville Your friand as ever C.H. Upchurch 29 July 1905, statement of Wm Grider (on letterhead of Thos A. Head, Attorney at Law, Cookeville, Tennessee): “State of Tennessee, Putnam County} Personally appeared before me G.M. Dunnavin a Notary Public…Wm. Grider Co G 16th Ten Reg who being duly sworn testifies that he was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware for Twenty months and two days and was exchanged with other sick and disabled in said prison about the time of the surrender of Lees Army in 1865 that said C. H Upchurch Co G 25th Tenn Regt was brought to Fort Delaware as a prisoner of war in February or March 1864 and that he kn ew him well and saw him often in prison up to the time that he (Grider) was exchanged as above stated. Wm [his X mark] Grider 5 January 1906 C. H. Upchurch states he was captured in the Murfreesboro fight and carried to Camp Douglas Prison and remained there until the next fall season and then was exchanged and was furloughed near Petersburgh, VA and came home, and then was recaptured and carried to Ft. Deleware [sic] and remained there until the war was over, and never did take the oath but had the offer of it at different times on the way to prison. “I am not the C. H. Upchurch that is accused of belonging to the 4th Tennessee Cavalry Co. K and know nothing about that Co.”. Sworn before L. F. Fuquay, Notary Public. 26 April 1906, letter from C.H. Upchurch to Frank Moses, Board of Pencion [sic], Nashville, Tenn. Inquiring as to status of pension. 13 August 1906, letter from H. T. Lee (on his printed stationery “H.T. Lee & Sons, Dealers in All Kinds of Rough and Dressed Lumber, Baxter, Tenn” to Capt. Frank A. Moses, Nashville, Tenn, enclosing statement of C. H. Upchurch; said his statement is true, he did not take the oath, and is worthy. 7 August 1919, form from State of Tennessee, Jackson County, I C. H. Upchurch of Granville, Tenn state under oath that I am a pensioner of the State of Tennessee, that I was born on 4 day of July 1836, and that I am entitled to receive the increase of Five Dollars per month, under the Act of 1919, for pensioners on the roll of eighty years, or over, of age. P.O. Address Granville, Tenn. [Signed] C. H. Upchurch [very shaky writing. mlj] 16 March 1921, letter from C. H. Upchurch to Tennessee Board of Pensions “I don’t want to worry you by writing to you ?though I want you to wirte to me hoo medle with my bisness you give me their names that I may now them when I meet them I spell them as Robers I didn’t no that I had inmy that wold treet me so i pester no body I am not able to work for my surp [?supper] I don’t ow no man but one that doctor andrson for waiton on my old woman She [It is possible the last page of this was not filmed or got out of order; there were scraps of two other letters from C.H. Upchurch on the next microfilm page, and it doesn’t like either of them are a continuation of this letter]. 23 March 1921, copy typed letter from the Tennessee Board of Pensions to C. H. Upchurch, R #1, Granville, Tenn: “We can find no charges in your case against you and from examination at the Comptroller’s Office, we find that you have received all the checks to which you are entitled”. Very respectfully, By order of the Board, [no signature; init “JPH:M”