Military: Daniel THACKER, 1902, Augusta Co., VA 

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Augusta County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Military Records 
     Daniel THACKER, Confederate Pension Application, 1902 
          Co. I/ 46th Virginia Infantry, CSA 

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[Official forms; responses indicated <thus>] 

[printed document, folded into three panels; panels 1 & 3 blank] 

[panel 2 of 3; docketing; responses handwritten, except where noted] 

       <Approved> 
     <S.F. Pilson      $30_> 
<Chairman Pension Board.> 
___________________________________________________________ 
<Augusta> County.  No. [blank] 
Name <Daniel Thacker> 
Post-office <Fishersville V.a> 
___________________________________________________________ 

  The Circuit Court of the county ["or the Corporation or 
Hustings Court of the city" struck] of <Augusta> 
(["as the case may be" struck]), from an examination of the within 
application of <Daniel Thacker> 
and of the affidavits and certificates therewith filed, and 
hereto annexed, ["and of such witnesses as were required and 
called by the court," struck] being satisfied that the said application 
is supported by the affidavits and certificates, ["and oral testimony 
(if any oral testimony is required by the court)" struck] of 
persons of well-known reputation for truth, honesty and integrity, 
and that the claim of the said applicant is just, and 
in due form, doth certify the same to the Auditor of Public 
Accounts, this <11.th> day of <May>, 190<3>. 
   <$30.00>               <T[?]H. Letcher> 
                                        Judge. 
___________________________________________________ 
   <Filed  octo. 18/02> 
                <SBW> 
                 <Clk> 

<8173> 

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                                  Form No. 1. 
     Application of Soldier, Sailor, or Marine for Disability by Wound. 
                                   __________ 
   I, <Daniel Thacker>, do hereby apply for aid under the act of the General 
Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, entitled, an act to aid the 
citizens of Virginia who were disabled by wounds received during the war 
between the States while serving as soldiers, sailors, or marines of Virginia, 
and such as served during the said war as soldiers, sailors, or marines of 
Virginia, who are now disabled by disease contracted during the war, or by the 
infirmities of age, and the widows of soldiers, sailors, or marines of 
Virginia who lost their lives in said service, or whose death resulted from 
wounds received or disease contracted in said service, and providing penalties 
for violating the provisions of this act, and I do solemnly swear that I am a 
citizen of the State of Virginia, resident ["at" overwritten] <near 
Fishersville>, in the <county>, of <Augusta>, in the said State, and that I 
have been an actual resident of the said State for two years, and of the said 
(city or county) for one year next preceding the date of this application, and 
that I was a soldier (["or sailor or marine" struck]) of the State of Virginia 
in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, and that 
while in the discharge of my duty in the service of the Confederate States as 
a member of <Capt. Robert Coles company on entering service & of Capt. Tucker 
Reeves's at close of the war, Genl, H.A. Wise Brigade of Infantry, Genl. 
Johnsons Division, Gen'l Longstreets Corps> 
and that on or about the [blank] day of <August> 186<4>, I was wounded in the 
battle of <Petersburg in the right leg under Cap. Reeves, who was killed,> 
and that from the effects of such wound I was permanently disabled, as follows:
 <by a gunshot wound in the right leg carrying away part of the large bone of 
 <leg so much disabling, which with the debility incident to advanced years> 
and that during the said war I was loyal and true to my duty, and never at any 
time deserted my command or voluntarily abandoned my post of duty in the said 
service, and that by reason of such disability I am now entitled to receive 
under the said act the sum of <$30> dollars annually.  And I do further swear 
that I do not hold any national, State, city or county office which pays me in 
salary or fees one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; nor have I an income 
from any other employment or other source whatever which amounts to one 
hundred and fifty dollars per annum; nor do I receive from any source whatever 
money or other means of support in value to the sum of one hundred and fifty 
dollars per annum; nor do I own in my own right, nor does any one hold in 
trust for my benefit or use, nor does my wife own, nor does any one hold in 
trust for my wife, estate or property, either real, personal or mixed, either 
in fee or for life, of the assessed value of five hundred dollars; nor do I 
receive any aid or pension from any other State, or from the United States, or 
from any other source, and that I am not an inmate of any soldiers' home, or 
of any other public institution; and I do further swear that the answers given 
to the following questions are true: 
    1. What is your age? Ans. <I will be Sixty years the 10 day of October 
                               next, 1902> 
    2. Where were you born? Ans. <Albemarle County Virginia> 
    3. How long have you resided in Virginia? Ans. <All my life> 
    4. How long have you resided in the City or County of your present 
        residence? Ans. <since November 1870> 
    5. What is your usual and ordinary occupation for earning a livelihood? 
        Ans. <a Farm laborer> 
    6. How long have you followed such occupation or employment? Ans. 
        <all my life> 
    7. Have you followed such occupation or employment, or any other 
occupation or employment, within the last two years?  If so, state when and 
where, and the amount of your annual income from the same. Ans. <folload[?] 
<same labor all the time to the present Have not had no other income 
<[illegible] to support my family to now my age & infirmity make it difficult 
[to [illegible] I have not kept my [illegible]> 
    8. Are you totally disabled from following your usual and ordinary 
occupation or employment, or any other occupation or employment, by which you 
can earn a livelihood?  If not totally disabled, but partially, state the 
extent of your partial disability. Ans. <I have suffered at times greatly[?] 
<from my wound & barely able to make a full hand[?] My increased[?] suffering 
<& advanced age have disabled me attest [at least?] one half to work for a 
<support & as the infirmities increase the [illegible] becomes [illegible]> 
    9. When and where did you enter the service of Virginia, or of the 
Confederate States? Ans. <Entered in Va 1861> 
   10. To what command and service were you first assigned, and who were your 
immediate superior officers? Ans. <Assigned to Infantry, Capt Robert Cole & 
<afterwards Cap. Reeves - Wise Brigade- Johnsons Division: attached 
<Longstreets Corps> 
   11. In what command and service were you when wounded, and who were your 
immediate superior officers? Ans. <Capt. Tucker Reeves - Col. Harrison[?] & 
<higher officers as above mentioned> 
   12. How long were you in the service? Ans. <four years> 
   13. In what battle or combat were you wounded, and under what circumstances 
were you wounded? Ans. <battle in Petersburg when in the line fighting & the 
<yankees shooting at me> 
   14. What was the precise location and nature of your wound, and if more 
than one wound, how many, and the precise location and nature of each? 
Ans. <Wounded in right leg below the knee which carried away part of the 
<greater[?] bone [illegible] 
<Only one wound Which has weakened the leg & given me a permanent soar> 
   15. What limb, if any, did you lose by reason of the said wound? 
Ans. <leg impared [illegible] as stated above> 
   16. Did you lose your sight by reason of the said wound? Ans. <no> 
   17. If sight or limb was not lost, what is the precise nature of your 
disability, caused by any wound, or wounds, received in said service, and in 
what way are you disabled by it? Ans. <I am diabled in manual labor, by which 
<alone I make my support> 
   18. Give the names and addresses of two or more survivors of your command 
when you were wounded, if any such be living, and if not, so state.  
Ans. <R M Burgess, B F Burgess, & P.B. Pleasants, of the same company are 
<living- the two former at Charlottesville & the latter at Waynesboro Virginia>
   19. Give here any other information you may possess relating to your 
service, or wound, or disability, that will support the justice of your claim 
for aid? Ans. <I never desrted; did good service to the end of war at 
<Surrender at Appomattox> 
     [blank] 
   20. Is there a camp of Confederate Veterans in the city or county of your 
residence? Ans. <not to my knowledge. Soldier Unions occasionally 
                                                  <are called.> 
   21. Is there any one living, the residents and address of whom is known to 
you, either comrade or otherwise, who has knowledge of your service, and of 
the cause of your disability?  If so or not, state. Ans. <The Messers Burgess 
<& Pleasants above stated; above & their certificates are referred to> 
   22. If disability was occasioned by surgical operation for a wound, so 
state, and wherein such operation caused your disability. Ans. [blank] 
<No sergical operation was performed, the disability is from the wound & its 
<effects, hard work & failing strength> 
    Witness my hand this <23.rd> day of <August>, 19<02>       <W.H.Fishburne> 
                                                         <his       } witness> 
                                                   <Daniel + Thacker}> 
                                                         <mark> 
   I, <W.H. Fishburne>, a <a notary public>, in and for the <County> of 
<Augusta>, in the State of Virginia, do certify that <Daniel Thacker>, whose 
name is signed to the foregoing application, personally appeared before me in 
my <County> aforesaid and having the aforesaid application read to him and 
fully explained, as well as the statements and answers therein made, the said 
<Daniel Thacker> made oath before me that the said statements and answers are 
true. 
    Given under my hand this <23.rd> day of <August>, 190<2> 
                                                  <W.H. Fishburne, N.P.> 
                                               <My Com.s expires Apr-20-1914.> 

                                   (A) 
                         Oath of Resident Witnesses. 

   We, <A.G. Henkel>, and [blank], do solemnly that we are residents of the 
<County> of <Augusta>, in the said State, and that we have known personally 
and well for <15 years or more> years <Daniel Thacker>, whose name is signed 
to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of 
Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that the said <Daniel Thacker now of 
<Augusta Va.> is a resident of the said county, and is a man of good 
reputation for truth and honesty, and that we have read the application and 
the answers to questions therein propounded, made by the said applicant, and 
verily believe that the said applicant has been truthful in the said 
statements and answers, and that from our personal knowledge the applicant is 
disabled (state the character of the disability, and whether it is partial or 
total) <wound in the leg> 
[blank] 
[blank] and that we verily believe the said applicant is justly entitled to 
aid under the said act, and that we have no personal interest in the allowance 
of the applicant's claim. 
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   Subscribed and sworn to before me, a <Notary Public> for the <County> of 
<Augusta>, State of Virginia, this <first> day of <Sept>, 190<2> 
                                                  <W.H. Fishburne, N.P.> 
                                   (B) 
                         Affidavit of Comrades. 

   We, [blank] and [blank], do solemnly swear that we are residents of the 
[blank] of [blank], in the State of [blank], and that <Daniel Thacker> whose 
name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act of the General 
Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, is personally well known to us, 
and that we have known him well for [blank] years, and that we were soldiers 
(sailors or marines) in the military or naval service of the State of 
Virginia, or of the Confederate States, during the war between the United 
States and the Confederate States, and that the said <Daniel Thacker> who was 
also a soldier (sailor or marine) in the said service during the said war, 
was, with us, members of <Captn Robert Cole's, & later Cap. Tucke Reeves, 
company, Col. Harris' Regiment, Gen. H.A. Wise Brigade> and that to our 
personal knowledge the said applicant was wounded on or about the [blank] day 
of <August>, 186<4>, at the battle of <Petersburg>, and that the said <Daniel 
<Thacker> was a loyal and true soldier (sailor or marine) in the said service, 
and that at the time the said wound was received the said applicant was in the 
faithful discharge of his duties as such soldier (sailor or marine), in the 
said battle or combat, and that we have no personal interest in the allowance 
of the applicant's claim. 
                                                            <R.M. Burgess> 
                                                            <B.F. Burgess> 
   Subscribed and sworn to before me, a <Notary Public> for the <County> of 
<Albemarle>, State of Virginia, this <26.th> day of <October>, 19<02> 
                                                  [signature illegible] 
   Note.-If only one comrade whose residence and address is known to applicant,
let him make the above affidavit.  If no such comrade is living whose address 
is known to applicant, then one or more reputable persons who have personal 
knowledge of the services of the applicant and of cause of his disability, 
make the following affidavit: 

                                   (C) 
              Affidavit of Witnesses, Not Comrades, As To Wounds. 

   We, [blank] and [blank], do solemnly swear that we are residents of the 
[blank] of [blank], in the State of [blank], and that we personally know, and 
are well acquainted with [blank], whose name is signed to the annexed 
application, and who is applying for aid under the act of the General Assembly 
of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that we have known the said applicant 
for [blank] years, and that to our personal knowledge the said [blank] was a 
loyal and true soldier (sailor or marine), in the military or naval service 
of Virginia, or of the Confederate States in the war between the States, and 
was such when disabled, and that the said [blank] was wounded while in the 
discharge of his duty as a soldier (sailor or marine) in the said service, on 
or about the [blank] day of [blank], 186[blank], at (here state the battle or 
combat where the wound was received, the nature of the wound, and the 
disability occasioned thereby) [blank] 
[blank] and that we have no personal interest in the allowance of the 
applicant's claim. 
                                                            [blank] 
                                                            [blank] 
   Subscribed and sworn to before me, a [blank], in and for the [blank] of 
[blank] State of Virginia, this [blank] day of [blank],19[blank] 
                                                            [blank] 
   Note.-If no comrade in arms, or other person who has knowledge of the 
service of the applicant and the cause of his disability is living, whose 
residence is known to applicant, state that fact here. 
[blank] 
                                   (D) 
                       Certificate of Physician. 

   I, <[illegible]>, a practicing physician in the <County> of <Augusta>, in 
the State of Virginia, do certify that I am personally acquainted with <Daniel 
Thacker> whose name is signed to the annexed application for aid under the act 
of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that from a 
personal examination of the said <Daniel Thacker>, as to the disability set 
forth in his application and the cause thereof, I am clearly of the opinion 
that he is disabled by reason of (here state specifically the nature of the 
disability and the cause thereof, and if such disability be total, whether the 
applicant is deprived thereby of all ability to pursue his usual and ordinary 
occupation for a livelihood, or any other occupation for a livelihood, and if 
the disability be partial, to what extent the applicant is hindered thereby 
from pursuing such occupation as aforesaid) <[illegible]> 
 <carrying away part of shaft of leg bone [illegible]> 
 <[illegible; phrase struck] 
 <[illegible] him unfit for [illegible]> 
and that I verily believe his disability is wholly due to the causes assigned 
in the said application, and that he is entitled to aid under the provisions 
of the said act, and that I have no personal interest in the allowance of the 
applicant's claim. 
    Given under my hand, this <14.th> day of <August>, 19<[illegible]>. 
                                                            <[illegible] M.D.> 
                                   (E) 
             Certificate of Camp of Confederate Veterans. 

   The <Stonewall Jackson> Camp of Confederate Veterans of the <City> of 
<Staunton & Augusta Co> in the State of Virginia, hereby certifies that it has 
examined into the merits of the annexed application of <Danil Thacker> for aid 
under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and 
being satisfied of the justice of his claim, hereby recommend the said <Dannil 
Thacker> for aid under the provisions of the said act, and that it has no 
personal interest in the allowance of the applicant's claim. 
                                                            <C E [illegible]> 
                                                                 Commander. 

   Note.-If there is no Camp of Confederate Veterans in applicant's city or 
county, then the certificate of two ex-Confederate soldiers, well known and of 
good reputation residing in said city or county, must be obtained as follows: 

                                   (F) 
             Certificate of Ex-Confederate Soldiers. 
[<xx> in margin] 
   We, [blank] and [blank], of the [blank] of [blank] State of Virginia, do 
certify that we were soldiers (sailors or marines) of the Confederate States 
in the war between the States, and that we have examined into the merits of 
the annexed application of [blank] for aid under the act of the General 
Assembly of Virginia, approved April 2, 1902, and that we are satisfied of the 
justice of his claim, and recommend the said [blank] for aid under the 
provisions of the said act, and that we have no personal interest in the 
allowance of the applicant's claim. 
    Given under our hands, this [blank] day of [blank], 19[blank] 
                                                            [blank] 
                                                            [blank] 
                                   (G) 
                Certificate of Commissioner of Revenue. 

   I, <W.L. Monry[?]>, Commissioner of Revenue, in the <County> of <Augusta>, 
in the State of Virginia, do certify that <Daniel Thacker>, or his wife, or 
his trustee, or trustee for his wife, whose name is signed to the annexed 
application for aid under the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, 
approved April 2, 1902, is charged on the land and personal property books of 
the said <County> with estate, real, personal and mixed, of the assessed value 
of <$300 three hundred> dollars. 
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               Charlottesville V_a - 
                   Sep 12_th 1902. 
   I hereby Certify that Daniel 
Thacker was a member of Co "I" 46_th 
V_a Reg- was a good and faithful 
Soldier and served in the War be- 
tween the States - From lapse of 
time I can not recall time or circum- 
stances of his wound but have no doubt 
as to correctness. 
                 N.h[?] Cox Lt 
                   Co "I" 46_th V_a Reg 
                      Wise Brigade 
                 
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