GILES COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION:  GIVI(E)NS, JAMES M.

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 WIDOW OF A DECEASED
SOLDIER, SAILOR OR MARINE FOR A PENSION. 

NAME: James M. Givins, (Givens): age 80 as of 1927, farmer, received $37.50
annually

GILES COUNTY, VA (Pembroke)

MEMBER OF: Salt petrer works

Letter enclosed in files dated Jan. 14, 1928 from Pembroke: My Dear Mr.
Johnson Your letter of enquiry to hand I am so glad that I never was enlisted
before I was just thirteen years old in sixty one.  yes there was another J.
M. Givens in Craig county I remember him verry well they called him Black jim
a son of my father called him uncle John my fathers name was Jams. S. Givens.
You probily have the name of my too brothers that was killed at the battle of
Seven pines my oldes brothers name was William I Givens, and my second was
John M. now I trust this will be satisfactory to you I want to be fair in this
matter in evry respect.  Sincerily yours  James M. Givens

****Evidently, Mr. Givens had been detailed by his father and had no proof
that he had been put on the rolls.  His father was "a old man and he was
detailed as an enrolling officer and looked after all the young men that was
supposed to go to the Army he also worked in the police force in Crag and I
suppose he had to go to headquarters to get my detail but I can't tell. I can
pove by Mr. Ross my comread whose name appears on my application I was a true
soldier.  He {Ross} is getting a pension rite at the cloese of the mar all of
the detailed men wer called out and he went to the southwest and joined that
part of the army. Colonel Echol's Battalion the reason that I dident go was
that I was splitting wood at the ccamp one mornig and the ax went in to my
foot and made a bad foot of it so I could not go therefor I lost that chance
of being connected with the army at that late day of the civel wor everything
was in such uprore theat there wasent any thing done up to date.   So I hope
you will recosider this matter and not turn me down at this late hour I cant
expect to live to get verry much benefit out of it no way.  Yours Truly, J.M. 
Givens