PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION - FELIX HOOD

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


NAME:: Felix Hood, age 88 as of 1926.

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA --Ringgold

MEMBER OF: 38th VA Regt., Capt. Norton's Company

Letter from Felix Hood to House of Delegates in Richmond:    

     I, Felix Hood do hereby certify that I was a free born Negro and was bound 
out according to law to a white man, John Mills, by my mother when I was a boy 
and served as a servant to Mr. Wills during the war between the states and in 
1862 or 1863 I was drafted for service in the Confederate Army.I did duty as a 
soldier by first helping to dig breastworks somewhere not so far from Richmond, 
Va. but was soon transferred to Norfolk, Va, or near there as a guard for 
government supplies until the close of the  war.  I remember that my captain was 
named Norton and that I was also under an officer named Williams, but don't know 
what his name was.  I was drafted and served as a regular soldier. My dute while 
I was serving as a guard mostly rashines (rations?) issued to the soldiers.  I 
was given a musket and told I would be punished if I allowed anyone to take or 
otherwise molest the supplies without orders from the officer at headquarters.  
I was in service nearly two years.  There is no one living now as I know of that 
knows of their own personal knowledge that I was in the army but some that knows 
I did go and come back.  
Sworn to before me this 16th day of Oct. 1925.  
B. S. Warren, J.P. for  Pittsylvania County, VA.