PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VA PENSION APPLICATION: GERARD HANKS

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


NAME:: Gerard (Girard) Hanks, age 86 as of 1930, Farmer originally but dependent 
on his son by 1930.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA --Danville

MEMBER OF: Danville Artillery under Shumaker's Command; Capt. B. Z Price's Light 
Artillery, Capt's Woodring and R. S. Rice, Enlisted Oct. 14, 1861; Prisoner of 
war paroled April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House.SE

Letter from Harry Woodring, Mayor of the city of Danville dated Sept. 25, 1903

Dear Stanhope,  
I know the enclosed pension is all correct and Mr. Hanks is in need of  
assistance and is nobly entitled to one.  He was in my brother's battery and was 
a good soldier.  Sincerely, Harry Woodring.     

****Reference to brother by Harry is to George Woodring, Capt.