PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA-CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION - RICHARD R. GOSNEY

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection



Name: Richard R. Gosney, age 73 as of 1920, farmer; comrade G. Baugh , W. M. 
Cardwell, and Robert Ashby; son Tom Gosney lived in Witt, Richard lived with his 
children, going back and forth


Pittsylvania County, Va --Danville

Member of: Home Guard under Capt. T. J. Talbot


State of Va, City of Danville to wit:

  this day personally appeared before me, Velina Tinsley, a notary public, in 
and for the city and state aforesaid, Richard L. Gosney, and being by me duly 
sworn, made oath that in 1864 and 1865, the affiant was then a youth of 17 or 18 
years of age and was  drafted into the confederate service and placed at work in 
the railroad shops at Danville, Va, under W. M. Cardwell, foreman of the shops, 
and that sometime in 1864 the federal forces threatened the railroad bridge 
across the Staunton River between Halifax and Charlotte counties, and affiant 
was then drafted, along with others, and placed in active military service under 
Col. Hobson and was sent to Staunton River where he engaged in the fight that 
took place there.  Afterward, he was detailed as aguard and was engaged in 
transferring prisoners, to Atlanta, Ga, in which service he was engaged until 
the close of the war, except at intervals he was required to work in the 
railroad shops at Danville.
  Signed: R. L. Gosney, Wm. Cabell, and Velina Tinsley

Initial in signature does not match initial in microfilm