CIVIL WAR PENSION APLLICATION EXTRACT - G. M. BOLANZ

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


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

NAME:: G. M. BOLANZ
AGE 80
PAINTER BY TRADE AFTER WAR
HAD DISTANT RELATIVES OF WHOM HE LOST TRACK

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA  (CHATHAM)

*************BOLANZ applied as under form 6 which is an application for any 
person who served the Confederate states in the war as body servant of a soldier 
in service, cook hostler, teamster, conf. guard, or who buried the conf. dead, 
worked in breastworks, railroad shops, blacksmith shops, confederate hospitals, 
under the direction of the conf. government by acts approved march 10, 1928, and 
march 26, 1928.

BOLANZ'S father was considered a master mechanic; his shop was taken over by the 
confederacy; from the latter months of the war of 64, g. m. worked in the shop 
at the age of 13 until the close of the war.


     I, E. E. FRIERS , DEPUTY CLERK  for the County of Pittsylvania, do certify 
that G. M. BOLANZ,whose name is signed to the foregoing application, personally 
appeared before me in my county, and, having the said application fully read and 
explained to him, as well as the statements and answers therein made, he the 
said G. M. BOLANZ made oath before me that said statements and answers are true.  
Given under my hand this 10th day of Feb. 1934.  Signed: E. E. FRIERS