GILES COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION:  SHELTON, W. J. 

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

NAME: W. J. Shelton, age 70 as of ?, farmer***See Mrs. L. J. Shelton

GILES COUNTY, VA--Pearisburg

MEMBER OF: 36th VA Infantry Regt. Company I under Capt. Gott and Col. Smith

*****Transcriber can not understand why Shelton was given a pension, yet his
wife was disallowed because the War Dept. had him listed as deserted. 

****Transcriber found report from Secretary of VA Military records that had
him enlisted in 1862 under above infantry; no mention of desertion