CIVIL WAR PENSION APLLICATION EXTRACT - ALLISON BERGER

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


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


NAME:: ALLISON BERGER
AGE 77
FARMER


PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA  (GRETNA)

MEMBER OF: COMPANY E, INFANTRY, COL. P. M. HOPAN? AND CAPT. J. J. SYKES, ENTERED 
SERVICE ON NOV. 1, 1864 AT DANVILLE, DISCHARGED WHEN GEN'L LEE SURRENDERED.  
DISABILITY: OLD AGE AND RHEUMATISM

PROPERTY ASSESSED AT $1400 BY SCOTT CARTER, CHMN. OF PENSION BOARD ON JULY 10, 
1924, JOHN M. HART, JUDGE OF THE COURT APPROVED APPLICATION FOR PENSION ON JULY 
21, 1924.
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION: 

LETTERHEAD FROM VA STATE LIBRARY, RICHMOND VA: August 13, 1924

     This certifes that on page 285, of volume 6 of the Confederate Records 
(manuscript volumes in the VA State Library) appears the name of Allison Berger.  
The entry shows that he was a private in Company C, 57th VA Regt. in this war 
from Pittsylvania and was known as ÒPig River GraysÓ of which company Ralph S. 
Woody was captain.  It is stated that he enlisted in 1854 and served 5 months.  
Signed H. R. McIlwaine, state librarian

Received 35 dollars.