Confederate Pension of Junious Hillyer Brooks

Application For Soldier’s Pension Under Act 1910.

State of Georgia

Banks County.

J. H. Brooks of said State and County, hereby applies for the pension provided by Act of 1910, to Confederate Soldiers, and submits his sworn statement, with his testimony to make out the same, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the questions propounded, answers as follows, to wit:

1. What is your name and where do you reside? (Give County and Post Office)

J. H. Brooks and reside in Banks County.

2. How long and since when have you been a continuous resident citizen of this State?

Sixty six years since 26^th Oct. 1847.

3. Did you enlist in the Army of the Confederate States or of the Organized Militia of this State from 1861 to 1865?

Yes, Army of the Confederate States.

4. When and where, and in what Company and Regiment did you enlist? (Give the arm and class of Service)

Sept. 1864, Banks County, Ga., G 1^st Ga. Regt. Cavalry. [Note from Pension Office in Atlanta states “not in Co. G 1^st Regt. Ga. Cavalry]

5. How long did you remain in the actual Military Service of said Company and Regiment? (Give date of discharge)

Eight months until Surrender 1865.

6. When and where was your Company and Regiment surrendered or discharged from the Service?

April 1865 at Kingston Ga. [Kingston, Ga. struck through) or near Savannah, Ga.

7. Were you actually present with your Command when it was surrendered or discharged?

Yes.

8. [Questions 8a-8j left blank as they deal with the whereabouts of the Soldier if he was not present with his command at surrender of discharge.)

9. What property of every description was owned, in use, possession or control of yourself and wife, and its cash value on the 4 Nov. 1908? (Make a list by items and value.)

50 acres of land value $160.00

$200.00 Gin

$30.00 Wagon

$100.00 Cash

Equals $540.00

10. What property of any kind have you or your wife disposed of and for what purpose since 4 Nov. 1908. To whom and for what price?

None.

11. What property of any description of any kind, and of any value now owned and in the use, possession and control of yourself and wife, and its cash value? (Make itemized list.)

50 acres of land $300.00 personal property $300.00.

12. What annual of monthly income or earnings of yourself and wife and the source derived have you?

$50.00 per year.

13. Are you drawing a pension of any amount from this State of the United States?

No.

14. Have you ever applied for the Georgia Pension and had it refused? And for what cause it was not allowed?

No.

Signed: J. H. Brooks, D. S. Thompson

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 27^th day of October 1913

T. F. Hill, Ordinary of Banks County.

[Handwritten letter]

Georgia Banks County

In person comes J. H. Brooks who being duly sworn says He omitted to add that he was in the Army of the Confederate States and now adds these words as can be seen in application.

That he served in the Cavalry of the 1^st Ga. Regiment and has added the same to his application.

That the word Kingston was a clerical mistake, and is stricken, and the words “near Savannah, Ga.”, is added. So the Command was discharged near Savannah, Ga. And that applicant was present at the time of discharge and surrender.

Signed: J. H. Brooks

Sworn to and subscribed before me This Oct. 19^th 1914.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary BC

[Note on this page also states “not in Co. G 1^st Regt. Ga. Cavalry”]

Pension was noted as “OK for 1915".

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King