MS, Newton Co CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION Charles CHANEY ************************************************************************************************ Submitted by SHEILA PARKER CONQUE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************************ My great-great grandfather, Charles CHANEY (1830-1910), living in Newton Co, MS, at the beginning of the War Between the States, enlisted in Decatur, MS on April 30, 1862 in a Newton Co unit known as “Newton’s Hornets,”. His unit fought at the battle of Port Hudson, LA, (July 1863) where those who survived were taken prisoners-of-war and sent first to New Orleans, then to POW camps in various northern states. He was paroled at Ft. Delaware, DE, at the end of the conflict. (See separate military service record.) He moved with his wife (Margaret LAIRD) and four children (Mary Margaret, Henry Isaac, Lawrence Keith and William Macon to what was then Calcasieu Parish, LA, in 1870 in time for the Federal Census. When he filed the following application for a Confederate pension in 1899, he was living in the community of Quadrate, LA, in Rapides Parish. ___________________________________________________________________ (INFORMATION FROM LOUISIANA SECRETARY OF STATE CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATIONS INDEX DATABASE SELECTED NAME DATA) [Searchable database of LA applicants can be found at: http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/gen/cpa-INDEX.htm (press “Search Database”, then enter name of applicant)] Reel: CP1.26 – Microdex 3 – Sequence 18 Target Card: CHANEY, CHARLES Applicant Information and Name Variations: CHANEY, CHARLES Parish: RAPIDES – Pages: 4 Soldier Information & Variation: CHANEY, CHARLES State: MS Unit: 39th REGIMENT Company: CO. (TRANSCRIPTION OF APPLICATION “Read Act and Article on Back No. 1841 SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION The Board Reserves the Right to Call for Additional Testimony Quadrate Charles Chaney Filed Feb 27th, 1899 Allowed ____________________ Quarterly Allowance, $_________________ Allowed from ________________ Rejected ___________________ ___________________________, President E. F. Brian, Secretary, Board of Commissioners All documentary evidence substantiating your claim should accompany the application. All applications should be addressed to the Secretary of the Board of Pension Commissioners, at Baton Rouge. Blanks will be furnished by the Secretary on request. Regular meetings of the Board second Tuesdays in March, June, September and December. SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION (Note: Answers are framed by asterisks ** **) I, **Charles Chaney**, a native of **South Carolina** and now a citizen of Louisiana, resident at **Quadrate** in the Parish of **Rapides** in said State of Louisiana, and who was a soldier, (sailor or marine as the case maybe) from the State of **Mississippi** in the Confederate States Army (or navy as the case may be) in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under Act 125 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana of 1898; and I do solemnly swear that I served for the Confederate States honorably from the day of my enlistment until the close of the civil war, (or until discharged or paroled as the case may be) as shown by my answers below, and that I remained true to the Confederate cause until the surrender and that I am now in indigent circumstances, and unable to earn a livelihood by my own labor or skill, and that I am not salaried or otherwise provided for by the State of Louisiana or by any other State or government, and am entitled to receive the benefits of said Act No. 125 of 1898, as further show by my answers to the questions below, which I swear to be true and correct: 1. In what town, county, State, country and year were you born? Answer: **Near Columbia, Lexington Co., South Carolina in 1830** 2. Where and when did you enlist and in what command? Answer: **April 1862, Jackson Miss, Co. “D” 39th Regt. Miss Vols** 3. Give the names of the regimental company and officers under whom you enlisted and under whom you were serving at the date of your discharge or parole. Answer: **J. B. Shelby, Col; J. C. McElroy, Capt.** 4. Were you wounded? If so, in what battled, and if not, state under what circumstances during the war you received injury or injuries? Answer: **No** 5. What was the precise nature of your wound or wounds, if any? Answer: (blank) 6. If you have lost a limb or an eye, state when, where and how? Answer: (blank) 7. Were you discharged from the army by reason of wound, wounds, or from the effects of service? Answer: ** Never discharged** 8. If discharged or paroled from the army, where were you, and what did you do until the close of the war? Answer: **Released from prison at Ft. Delaware, Del at close of war in 1865** 9. What was the name of the surgeon who attended you when discharged? Answer: **None** 10. Where were you at the surrender? Answer: **At Fort Delaware** 11. If a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you released, and to where sent? Answer: **At New Orleans, Johnson’s Island and Fort Delaware** 12. Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government at any time during the war? Answer: **No** 13. If so, when, where and under what circumstances? Answer: **No** 14. How long have you been a resident of the State of Louisiana next preceding the date of this application? Where have you resided during that period? Answer: **Since 1870 in Calcasieu and Rapides Parishes** 15. Are you married, or have you been married? Answer: **have been married** 16. If so, what is the size of your family? Answer: **have no family, Have married children** 17. What are the respective ages of your wife and children? Answer: **Children’s ages 46, 44, 43, 40** 18. How many children have you and how many of each sex? Answer: **4 3 boys and 1 girl** 19. Are you engaged in any business? If so, what do you earn? Answer: **Farming, earn very little** 20. Have you any estate in your own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: **None** 21. Has your wife any estate in her own right, real or personal, and what is its value? Answer: **No wife** 22. How have you derived support for yourself, and your family if you have one, for the last five years, and what prevents you from earning a living now? Answer: **Farming, old age and rheumatism** 23. Do you use intoxicants to any extent? Answer: **No** 24. Have you an attorney to look after this application? Answer: **No** 25. Give his name, address, and the compensation agreed between you? Answer: **None** 26. Give name of two or more of your comrades with their postoffice addresses? Answer: **Can’t answer: Haven’t seen or heard from any of them for several years** 27. Give your postoffice address and that of two witnesses? Answer: **J. W. Weeks, Quadrate, La** Witness my hand on this **24th** day of **February** 1899 Charles Chaney, Applicant Witnesses: Dr. John L Wilson J. W. Weeks APPLICANT MUST GO BEFORE CLERK OF COURT STATE OF LOUISIANA, **Rapides** PARISH Personally appeared before me, **C L Ransdell**, Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named **Charles Chaney**, the applicant with whom I am personally acquainted, and having the application read and fully explained to him as well as the statements and answers therein made, made oath that the statements and answers are true. Witness my hand and seal of office, this **24th** day of **February** 1899. (Signed) **C. L. Ransdell**, Clerk (If possible, the two witnesses as to character should have served with the applicant in the army and if so let them either state it in their oath; also any other information regarding applicant’s army service.) STATE OF LOUISIANA **Rapides** PARISH Personally appeared before me **C. L. Ransdell**, Clerk of the District Court of said Parish, the above named **J. W. Weeks** and **Dr. John L. Wilson**, two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application, with whom I am personally acquainted, and know to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community, and who make oath that they are personally acquainted with the foregoing applicant, and that the facts set forth and statements made in his application are correct and true, to the best of their knowledge and belief, and that they have no interest in this claim, and that said applicant’s habits are good and free from dishonor. Witness my hand and seal of office, this 24th day of February 1899 **C. L. Ransdell**, Clerk of Court”