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CIVIL WAR RECORD for Adam Lafayette Allison 13 May 1862 to 1865 13 May 1862 (enlisted)
3 April 1862 (mustered in)
Enlisted at Jackson, MS as a private in Pettis Light Artillery known as:
Company A, Wither�s Regimental Light Artillery, Mississippi Volunteers, Confederate Army (also know as the 1st Regiment Mississippi Artillery.
For 3 years or the end of the war, by Col. Withers
* * * * * From Historic Roll:
Age when enlisted: 31
Nativity: North Carolina
Occupation: Printer
Address when enlisted: Hazelhurst, MS, Copiah Co.
Married
Height 5� 7 1/4"; fair complexion; hair dark; eyes hazel.
Remarks: Bakers Creek, Siege at Vicksburg. Transferred to Bradfords Battery. Special orders No. 143 from headquarters of Lt. Gen. Taylor
* * * * * _____ 22 to 30 June 1862 -- Present July & August 1862 -- Present
Last paid to June 30, 1862 by Capt. Hickle
* * * * * September & October 1862 -- Present
Last paid to August 31, 1862 by Capt. Hickle
* * * * * November & December 1862 -- Present
Last paid to October 31, 1862 by Capt. Hickle
* * * * * January & February 1863 -- Present
Last paid to October 31, 1862 by Capt. Hickle
* * * * * 25 June 1863 -- Injuries sustained at Vicksburg: slight wounds in arm and knee
* * * * * 4 July 1863 -- Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi
* * * * * 7 July 1863 -- Roll of Prisoners of War "Paroled at Vicksburg, Miss., according to the terms of capitulation entered into by the commanding Generals of the United States and Confederate Forces: July 4, 1863"
* * * * * VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, JULY 7th, A.D. 1863 To All Whom It May Concern,
Know Ye That: I Adam L. Allison a Private of Co. A. 1st Reg�t Light Artillery Mississippi Vol., C.S.A., being a Prisoner of War, in the hands of the United States Forces, in virtue of the capitulation of the City of Vicksburg and its Garrison, by Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton, C. S. A., Commanding on the 4th day of July, 1863, do in pursuance of the terms of said capitulation, give this my solemn parole under oath:
That I will not take up arms again against the United States, nor serve in any military, police. or constabulary force in any
Fort, Garrison or field work, held by the Confederate States of
America, against the United States of America, nor a guard of prisons, depots or stores, not discharge any duties usually performed by officers or soldiers, against the United States of
America until duly exchanged by the proper authorities. Adam L. Allison {signature} Sworn to and subscribed before me at
Vicksburg, Miss.,
the 7th day of July, 1863.
J. M. Davis, Lt. Col.
23rd Reg�t Ind. Vols., And Paroling Officer
* * * * * 1 May to 31 October 1863 -- Present
Last paid to August 31, 186_ by Capt. Hickle
Remarks: Reported Oct. 10
* * * * * 6 November 1863 -- Parole Camp
* * * * * 20 December 1863 -- Name appeared on a list of paroled officers and men, of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, declared exchanged.
* * * * * November & December 1863 -- Present or Absent - not stated
Remarks: Absent from 23 August to 1 Nov. without leave.
* * * * * 9 April 1865 -- Listed as Company "F"
Captured at Blakely, Alabama
* * * * * 1 May 1865 (?) -- Listed as Company "F" (not dated)
Roll of Prisoners of War Transferred from Ship Island, Miss to Vicksburg, Miss., May 1 1865**
Duplicate roll (which is incomplete) bears the following endorsement: "Headquarters Exchange of Prisoners, Camp Townsend, ___ 5th, 1865.
Received the prisoners, on parole, described in this roll." * * * * * 1865 -- Was a member, but absent from, command when it surrendered near Jackson, MS.
Reason: was in temporary service for two months in the ___ of ____Regiment.
* * * * * CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION THIS APPLICATION Must Be Filed With the Chancery Clerk on or Before the First Monday in September. (No Application Will Be Entertained Not on The Printed Form)
FORM NO. 4 APPLICATION of Indigent Soldier or Sailor of the Late Confederacy under Chapter 73, Acts of 1900
Applicant Must Make Answer to all of the Following Questions and Have it Written Out Plainly In Ink
Q. -- What is your name?
Answer: A. L. Allison. Q. -- What is your age?
Answer: Seventy-three years (73) and two months. Q. -- In what county do you reside?
Answer: Pike. Q. -- What is the name of your post office?
Answer: Summit. Q. -- How long have you been a bona fide resident of Miss.?
Answer: 65 years. Q. -- Are you married or unmarried?
Answer: yes, married. Q. -- In what state and county did you reside when you enlisted in the service
of the Confederate States? Answer: Copiah County Mississippi. Q. -- What was the date of your enlistment?
Answer: April 1862. Q. -- What was the number of the regiment or name of the vessel in which you
first enlisted? Answer: Pettiss Light Artillery known as Withers Artillery. Q. -- The name of its commander?
Answer: [illegible] Withers. Q. -- Letter or designation of the company in which you enlisted?
Answer: Co. "A". Q. -- Name of its Captain?
Answer 1st [illegible] [illegible] Rider, 2nd W. T. Ratliff. Q. -- The length of time in which you served in the above company or regiment? Answer: Until the surrender in 1865.
Q. -- Were you ever discharged or transferred from the above command?
Answer: No. Q. -- If so give the date of discharge or transfer.
Answer: None. Q. -- If discharged, on what ground?
Answer: None. Q. -- If transferred, to what command?
Answer: None. Q. -- Did you enlist the second time in the Confederate service?
Answer: No. Q. -- If so, into what regiment or company?
Answer: No. Q. -- Were you discharged from the command before the surrender in 1865?
Answer: No. Q. -- If so, for what cause?
Answer: None. Q. -- Were you ever wounded while in active service?
Answer: slightly in arm and knee. Q. -- Give date on which you received your wound?
Answer: June 25, 1863. Q. -- At what place were you wounded?
Answer: Vicksburg. Q. -- What is the nature of your wound?
Answer: slight. Q. -- If wounded otherwise so as to disable you from earning a support,
state in what manner. Answer: No. Q. -- Were you at any time absent from your command without leave?
Answer: No. Q. -- If yes, how long and why?
Answer: No. Q. -- Did you ever absent yourself from your command without leave and join
another? Answer: No. Q. -- Were you with your command in active service at the surrender in 1865?
Answer: Yes. Q. -- Where did your command surrender?
Answer: Near Jackson, Miss. Q. -- Were you absent from it when it surrendered.
Answer: Yes. Q. -- Why were you absent?
Answer: In temporary service in the headquarters of same regiment.
Q. -- How long had you been absent? Answer Two months.
Q. -- What is your occupation at present. Answer I am unable to work.
Q. -- Did you apply for a pension because you are indigent and unable to earn
support by your own labor? Answer: Yes. Q. -- Do you receive any income from the State, United States, County, City or
from any other source? Answer: Yes, from the L. __ Railroad. Q. -- How much is it per annum?
Answer: One hundred and twenty dollars. Q. -- Have you any sons over 16 and under 21 years of age?
Answer: No. Q. -- If yes, how many?
Answer: I have no children. Q. -- Have you any property in your own right or in the right of your wife?
Answer: Yes. Q. -- What is its assessed valuation?
Answer: $300, it belongs to my wife. Q. -- Have you a home of your own?
Answer: My wife has. Q. -- If not, with whom do you live?
Answer: My wife. Q. -- Is the person you are now living with a relation?
Answer: My wife. Q. -- Have you any relations? If so, what relations?
Answer: A widowed sister. Q. -- Have you any relations or connections whose legal or moral duty it is to
provide for you? Answer: No. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I was a Confederate soldier, sailor or servant; that I was honorably discharged, paroled or did not desert the Confederate service; that I reside in this State; that I am indigent and inform, by reason of service in the Confederate army or navy; that I am not able to earn a support and have no relatives able, whose legal or moral duty it is to support me; that I do not own property, real or personal, in my own name or that of my wife, to the value of four hundred dollars; that I have not conveyed any of my property to any one with a view of drawing a pension. So help me God.
(signature of pensioner:) A. L. Allison
Sworn and Subscribed before me, this 30th day of July 1904 ______________________ Chancery Clerk
AFFIDAVIT We, the undersigned, verily believe the facts stated in the above application to be true, and the applicant to be the identical personal named in the said application. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 27th day of July A.D. 1904. M. C. Durim (? )(Signature of Witness)
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 27th day of July A.D. 1904
W. W. Broadshaw
(Signature of Officer) Notary Public
CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
The undersigned hereby certified that the above applicant is indigent and physically unable to earn a support by his own labor.
Office of Chancery Clerk and County Board of Inquiry Pike County State Miss. Sept. 7, 1904
We, the undersigned members of the Board of Supervisors, Sheriff and Chancery Clerk, do hereby approve the foregoing application of A. L. Allison for pension because we believe the applicant to be indigent and physically unable to earn a support by his own labor caused by wounds or injuries received during the civil war, and that we believe the facts stated in the above application to be true and the party should receive the pension.
Given under our hands and seals of office this 7th day of Sept 1904
S. C. Walker (Seal)
Chancery Clerk N.B. If the Board approves this application, the Chancery Clerk will so certify after recording the same in a book kept for that purpose and forward all the approved applications in a body (not one at a time) to the Auditor�s office by the first day of October. Approved September 7, 1904 S. C. Walker
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