Confederate Pension Application of Daniel C. P. Carter

Questions for Applicant.

State of Georgia,

Banks County

D. C. P. Carter, of said State and County, desiring to avail himself of the Pension Act (Section 1254, Code), hereby submits his proofs, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the following questions, deposes and answers as follows:

1. What is your name and where do you reside? (Give State, County and post-office.)

D. C. P. Carter of Banks County, Ga., Gailey, Ga.

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

All his life since 1835.

3. When and where were you born?

July 13 1835, Raburn [sic] Co., Ga.

4. When and where and in what company did you enlist or serve?

Enlisted 1862 at Lowden, Tenn., Co. B 6^th Regiment of Georgia Cavalry.

5. How long did you remain in such company and regiment?

3 ½ years.

6. When and where was your company and regiment surrendered and discharged?

Some where in S. C.

7. Were you present when it was surrendered?

I was not.

8. If not present, state specifically and clearly where you were, when you left your command, for what cause and by whose authority?

I got furlough to by [buy] me a horse, went back to Tenn. where I was captured Sept. 1864, was sent to Nashville, Tenn., where I stayed [?] until the surrender.

9. How much can you earn (gross) per annum by your own exertions or labor?

Nothing.

10. What has been your occupation since 1865?

Labor.

11. Upon which of the following grounds do you base your application for pension, viz: first, “age and poverty,” second, “infirmity and poverty,” or third, “blindness and poverty”?

Infirmity and poverty.

If upon the first ground, state how long you have been in such condition that you could not earn your support? If upon the second, give a full and complete history of the infirmity and its extent? If upon the third, state whether you are totally blind and when and where you lost your sight?

Natural debility from age and infirmity, suffers from pain came from exposure in the service.

13. What property, real or personal, or income, do you possess, and its gross value?

Nothing.

14. What property, real or personal, did you possess in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898 and 1899, and what disposition, if any, by sale or gift, have you made of same?

1 cow & 1 horse in 1894 & 1895, since then nothing.

15. In what County did you reside during those years, and what property did you return for taxation?

In Banks County.

16. How were you supported during the years 1898 and 1899?

By my own little labor.

17. How much did your support cost for each of those two years, and what portion did you contribute thereto by your own labor or income?

About 100.

18. What was your employment during 1898 and 1899? What pay did you receive each year?

Labor, doing what I could.

10. Have you a family? If so, who comprises such family? Give their means of support? Have they a homestead?

I have a wife not able to do any thing.

20. Are you receiving a pension? If so, what amount and for what disability?

None.

21. Have you ever made an application for pension before?

No.

22. How many applications have you ever made and under what class?

None.

Signed: D. C. P. Carter, Applicant.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 7^th day of January 1901.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary, Banks County.

Note from Pension Office:

“Pension office-7-8-1901.

Applicant must prove by a witness his capture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war to time army surrendered so as to show that his statement about getting furlough and capture is true.

J. W. Lindsey,

Com. Of Pensions.”

Georgia,

Banks County.

Personally came before me C. E. Whitlock who being duly sworn deposes and says that sometime during the month of February 1864 he saw and was present at the capture of D. C. P. Carter of Co. B 6^th Ga. Cavalry by U. S. Soldiers near Ducktown, Tenn., and that said D. C. P. Carter was later in custody and carried away by said U. S. Soldiers.

Signed: C. E. Whitlock

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this Sep. 2 1901

T. F. Hill Ordinary

Georgia,

Banks County

I, T. F. Hill, Ordinary of said County, do certify that the above affidavit was made and signed and sworn to before me and the deponent C. E. Whitlock is a resident of said County and is truthful and reliable.

T. F. Hill, Ordinary

Note:

Silver Shoals Baptist Church cemetery, Banks county;

D. C. P. Carter, 13 July 1835 to 30 Nov. 1911

M. R. Carter (wife of D. C. P.) 31 July 1844 to unknown

Source: Cemeteries and Deaths in Banks County, Georgia, by Richard J. Chambers

Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King