PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JAMES PARKER

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Name and Age: James Parker, Age 81 as of 1919, Farmer

Widow of:

Comrades of veteran: Thomas Greenwood and Jefferson Harris  of Mt. Airy NC

VA town:-Penhook

Member of: Company F, 29th VA Regt. under Col. Giles and Moore, Capt. Jno 
Carter; Captured and releasedfrom prison at Point Lookout, MD.--Enlistedd July 
1, 1861.

Letter in file from Jno. Johnson, Pension Clerk dated May 5, 1920:

     Your application for pension is on file in this office and upon examining 
your war records, we find on the roll of Company F, 29th VA Infantry , your name 
appearing once under date of March 7, 1864. This showing that you were present 
in arrest awaiting trial.  No other record is found of your service.  Please 
explain this, showing the reason for the arrest and how and when you finally 
left the army.  Let us have this information sworn to so that we May be able to 
file it with your application as part of the sworn statements contained 
therein..  

RESPONSE: I, James Parker, hereby certify that I was present at all roll calls 
and was never arrested and awaiting trial and will further say that I was 
captured by the enemy in Battle of Wintchester in June 1864 and held prisoner 
until August 1865 and on my way home.  I stoped in Richmon and was in the 
hospital there weeks and I come home.                             James Parker,
(his mark)  Sworn to before me,  a Justice of Peace in and for the county of 
Pittsylvania this 7tth day of May 1920: John A. Davis, J. P.