Confederate Pension Application of George T. Campbell
1890. No. 3000
Application for Allowance for Diseased by body wound.
Applicant, Geo. T. Campbell
County, Banks
Amount, 50
Date of Warrant, Aug. 2
Entered on record, Aug. 2 1890.
W. H. Harrison, Secretary, Executive Department.
Warrant Handed to Oscar Brown
For Use of Applicants Who Have not Heretofore Drawn.
State of Georgia,
Banks County.
Personally appears George T. Campbell of Banks county,
State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn, says on oath that he is a bona fide
citizen and resident of said State, and has been continuously since the fifth
day of November, 1879; that he enlisted in the military service of the
Confederate States (or of the State of South Carolina) during the war between
the States, and serves as a Private in Company G, of 2nd Regiment of
South Carolina Volunteers Jenkins Brigade; that whilst engaged in such military
service at the battle of Fort Harrison in the State of Virginia, on the [blank]
day of October 1864, he was wounded as follows:
While charging the enemy, a portion of a shell struck
soldier’s gun, while in front of him, forcing it to his breast, knocking him
down, inflicting a wound in left breast and enlarging it hereby creating
hemorage [sic], on account of which soldier was sent to hospital in Richmond
Va., where he was confined for several weeks and was honorably discharged in
that account. The wound resulted in
chronic hemorage of the lungs and consumption.
Soldier further says he entered the service in perfect good health and
that none of his ancestors ever died from consumption and all are long
lived. He further stated that said
wound is the primary and absolute cause of his disabled condition and he has
constant cough and hemorage from the effects of said wound. He states he is permanently and essentially
diseased from performing any manual labor.
Deponent desires to participate in the benefits of the
Act, approved October 24, 1887, and the acts amendatory thereof, and makes
application for the allowance to which he is entitled for [inksplotch], ending
October 26, 1890.
Signed: Geo. T. Campbell
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the 24th
day of June 1890.
L. N. Turk, C. S. C.
Commissioned Officer’s Affidavit.
State of South Carolina,
Anderson County.
Personally came before me Capt. P. K. Norris of the
county of Anderson, State of South Carolina, who, being duly sworn, says that
he was a commissioned officer in Company G Second Regiment of South Carolina
Volunteers, and that deponent knows Geo. T. Campbell, and that he received the
wounds (or contracted the disease) in the military service, as stated in the
foregoing affidavit, and that wounds permanently disable the said Geo. T.
Campbell as stated by him in said affidavit.
Deponent further states that said Geo. T. Campbell is a bona fide
citizen of Georgia and resides in Banks county.
Signed: P. K. Norris
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th
day of June 1890
W. N. Cox, Judge of [?] A. C.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King