PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION - CHARLES THOMPSON

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Name and Age: Charles Thompson, Col., age 85 as of 1933, body servant for 
Morter, cooked or tended the horses.  Master: Samuel Thompson who had two sons, 
Samuel and Raleigh who lived in Campbell Co.

Comrades of veteran:

VA town: Gretna c / o Mrs. Laura White

Member of: Battery 3, 10th Battalion, VA Artillery

Letter to J. T. Clement, Judge in Chatham--dated Feb 2. 1934 From S. J. 
Thompson, Atty. from Huntburg, VA:

My dear Judge:
  I have your letter of the 29th, and I talked with my father and Uncle Raleigh 
about Chas. Thompson, and they are both well axquainted whith him and know that 
he lived with Grandfather, Capt. Samuel Thompson, a good many years, but neither 
of them are positive as to whether or not he served as a body servant for 
grandfather during the war. 
  My father says that his understanding is that Chas. Thompson assisted 
grandfather during the war in rounding up deserters, returning runaway slaves, 
and that kind of thing during the war, while grandfather was acting as  Home 
Guard, but he is uncertain whether or not he was with grandfather in actual 
conflicts.
  This is all the information that I can gather and I hope it will suffice.  
With best wishes I am, 
Very sincerely yours, Samuel J. Thompson.