CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION EXTRACT - GREEN CONNALLY

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


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

NAME:: GREEN CONNALLY, AGE ? (FORM SAID HE LIVED IN THE COUNTY FOR 101 YEARS)

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA (RINGGOLD)

MEMBER OF: INFANTRY, SERVED AT BREASTWORKS,

LETTER IN FILES TO S. S. HURT, DATED MAY 7, 1926 IN CHATHAM, VA: 

DEAR MR. HURT
     MR. ROBT. POWER HAS AN APPLICATION FOR AN OLD COLORED MAN, GREEN CONNALLY 
BY NAME.  I AM FEARFUL THAT THERE IS NO ONE LIVING WHO WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED 
WITH THE OLD NEGRO AND COULD SWEAR TO HIS SERVICE AND I AM SURE HE IS ENTITLED 
TO PENSION.  ANY SERVICE YOU CAN RENDER HIM WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED.  
                                SINCERELY, HARRY WOODRING,
                                COMMANDER, CABELL GRAVE CAMP OF VA.

RETURN LETTER FROM THE PENSION CLERK ASKED THAT ANCESTORS OF GREEN CONNALLY'S 
MASTER ENDORSE HIS APPLICATION, VERIFYING THAT HE HAD BEEN PART OF THE 
CONFEDERACY BREASTWORKS.  HE WAS 100 YEARS OLD.

ANOTHER LETTER ASKING FOR THE SAME INFORMATION WAS SENT TO WOODRING AND THE 
REPLY IS AS FOLLOWS TO MR. J. JOHNSON:

DEAR MR. JOHNSON
     I COULD NOT LOCATE GREEN CONNALLY AND I THEREFORE SO WROTE, I HAVE THE 
POLICE DEPT. LOODING HIM UP AND IF THE FIND HIM, I WILL SEE IF HE CAN GIVE ME 
ANY INFORMATION THAT WILL AID HIM.   COULD YOU GIVE ME HIS ADDRESS AS I AM 
ALWAYS GLAD TO AID ALL WHO SERVED IN CONFEDERATE ARMY IN ANY CAPACITY BE THEY 
WHITE OR BLACK.  MY BEST WISHES,             SINCERELY, HARRY WOODRING

JOHN JOHNSON THEN WROTE TO SCOTT CARTER ASKING FOR INFORMATION ON CONNALLY'S 
WHEREABOUTS.

A LETTER WAS THEN SENT TO CONNALLY AND THE NEXT DOCUMENT SHOWS A STATEMENT AS 
FOLLOWS:
     THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT I KNOW GREEN CONNALLY, AND CAN TESTIFY THAT HE DID 
BREASTWORK SERVICE AND WAS A CONFEDERATE SERVANT IN THE WAR.  SUTHERLING, VA. 
NOV. 8, 1926.  SIGNED: JIM ELDRIDGE

     I, BENJ. WILLIAMS, A NOTARY PUBLIC FOR THE COUNTY AND STATE ABOVE SAID DO 
HEREBY CERTIFY THAT GREEN CONNALLY WHOSE NAME IS SIGNED IN WRITING HAS 
ACKNOWLEDGED HIS SIGNATURE BEFORE ME IN MY COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID.  GIVEN 
UNDER MY HAND THIS 1ST DAY OF DEC. 1926.  SIGNED: BENJ. WILLIAM NP (MY 
COMMISSION EXPIRES NOV. 6, 1930.)

     THE ABOVE GREEN CONNALLY IS KNOWN TO ME AND IS A VERY WORTHY OLD DARKY OF 
THE ANTEBELLUM DAYS, CLAIMS TO BE 103 YRS OF AGE.  BENJ. WILLIAMS, NP
  
CIRCUIT COURT ALLOWED THE PENSION BASED ON HARRY WOODRING'S REQUEST.