Civil War Pension: Ross UPCHURCH; Jackson Co., TN Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Mary Lu Nelson Johnson http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* UPCHURCH, ROSS pension app 15 November 1911, Ross Upchurch, native of Tennessee residing RFD 4, Gainesboro, Tennessee, served Co A, 16th Tenn Infantry Regiment and also in McBride’s Cavalry, born 5 May 1838. Served two years in Co A, 16th Tenn, then McBride’s Cavalry when captured. Enlisted [blank] May 1861; Capt L. ?N Savage, Col. ?J.H. Savage afterwards Col. Connell. Battle of Chert Mountain, Point Royal Tenn and Corinth, Miss, not wounded but had rheumatism for 35 years for years which incapacitated for labor and heart trouble. Captured 1864 at Pikeville, Tenn remained in prison in Camp Chase and Rock Island until close of war. Cannot remember name of physician. Released after war closed, did not take oath of allegiance. “I have been married, I have no family, I have no children, I am not engaged in any business…don’t own anything”. Witnesses: E???? W. Mabry, Physician, Gainesboro, Tenn; B. W. Cantrell, Smithville, Tennessee, ???? McGinness, Smithville, Tenn. 1 October 1912, memo from The Adjutant General’s Office, War Department, Washington, D.C. to Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners, Nashville. “Records show that one Henry R. Upchurch (name also borne as Haywood R. Upchurch but not as Ross Upchurch), who is designated as a private of Company I, 4th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, was captured August 5, 1863, in Smith County, Tennessee, and was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, thence to Rock Island Barracks, Illinois, where he enlisted in the United States Army for frontier service Oc tober 6, 1864. Nothing further has been found relative to the subject of inquiry. [Signed] George Andrew [No indication he received a pension, but this would have made him ineligible for either CSA or USA pension].