HENRY H. DELANEY

Submitted by Theodore Urbanski

SOURCE: TN Confederate Pension Application: #15379

No. 15379

Private Henry H. Delaney

Company B McClellan Troop

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State of Tennessee

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Soldiers’ Application for Pension

________ Accepted _____A June 14, 1919______________________________

Filed ___ October 12, 1918________Home_____________________________________

Bristol Sullivan County

I Henry Harrison Delaney a native of the State of Tennessee and now a citizen of Tennessee resident at Bristol in the County of Sullivanin said State of Tennessee and who was a soldier from the State of Tennessee in the War Between the United States and Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee entitled “ an Act for the benefit of the indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pensions, and fixing a penalty for violation of the same, “I do solemnly swear that I was a member of Company B 4 th Tennessee Cavalry in the service of the Confederate or United States, and that by reason of disability and indigence I am now entitled to receive the benefit of this Act. I further swear that I do not hold any National, State, or County office, nor do I receive aid or pension from any other state or from the United States, and that I am not an inmate of any soldier’s home and that I am unable to earn a reasonable support for myself and family. I do further solemnly swear that the answers given to the following questions are true:

In what county, State, and year were you born?

Answer -Sullivan County, Tennessee January 15, 1824

When did you enlist and in what command? Give the name of the regimental and company officers whom you served.

Answer-April 1861 Company B, 4 th Tennessee Cavalry Capt. Cyrus Ingles, Colonel Baxter Smith

In what battle were you engaged in and if not wounded, state what disabilities did you receive if any?

Answer- Chickamauga, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and other numerous battles fought by General Joe Wheeler

What was the precise nature of your wound or disability incurred?

Answer-Wounded at Laverne near Nashville severe wound in right leg shattering the bone, Wounded in hand at Murfreesboro

Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wounds or disability?

Answer-Yes

Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wounds or disabilities?

Answer-Was returned to service in five months

If discharged from the army, were you and what did you do until the end of the war?

Answer-No answer

What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?

Answer-Dr. William J. Delaney my brother who was surgeon of the regiment and also Tom Allen

How did you get out of the army, when and where?

Answer-Was Paroled at Charlotte N. C. April 26, 1865

Were you ever in prison? If so state what prison and when released?

Answer-No

Were you paroled? If so when and where?

Answer- Yes see above

Did you take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States Government?

Answer-No only so far as required

If so, when under what circumstances?

Answer-Date of parole

Have you applied for a pension before this if so about when?

Answer-No

Are you married or have you been married?

Answer-Wife died March 19, 1915

If so what is the size of your family living together?

Answer -Self and Son

What is the respective age of your wife and children living with you?

Answer - Son 45 years of age

To what sex do your children belong?

Answer- 5 sons and 2 daughters

In what business are you now engaged, if any and what do you earn?

Answer-None

What estate have you in your own right, real and personal and what is it value?

Answer-2 ½ acres and unfinished well no income

What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal and what is its value?

Answer -none

How have you derived support for yourself and family for the last five years?

Answer- Since my house burned down in April 1918 have been living with my son

Do you use any intoxicants to exist?

Answer-No

How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?

Answer-All my life my land is in both states State [VA. & TN.] house was on Virginia side for a few feet from line. [I lived in Virginia for 21 years] Aberdeen County.

Have you an Attorney to look after this petition?

Answer-No

If so give his name and address.

Answer-None

Witness my hand this 30 thday of September 1918

Witnesses: H. H. Delaney

____-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Physician

Postoffice address

W. H. Payne Witness

Postoffice address Bristol, Tennessee

Robert Burnow Witness

Postoffice address Bristol, Tennessee

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State of Tennessee

Sullivan County I John R. Snow Trustee of said county certify that H. H. Delaney

and his wife are assessed with 22 acres, valued at $ 600.00 and with $ 0 of personal property.

Witnessed my hand this 7 th day of October 1918

If applicant and his wife have no property, the Trustee must certify

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State of Tennessee personally appeared before me Jas. P. Rodes a

Sullivan County Notary Public of Said County, the above named

H. H. Delaneythe applicant with whom I am personally aquatinted and having the application read and fully explained to him as well as the statements and answers therein made oath that said statements and answers are true.

Witness my hand and seal of office, this 1 s t day of October 1918

Jas. P. Roder Notary Public

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State of Tennessee

SullivanCounty personally appeared before me Jas. P. Roder Notary Public of said County the above named Dr. J. A. Delaney one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application and who is a physician of good standing and being duly sworn says that he has carefully and thoroughly examined H. H. Delaney the applicant and find him laboring under the following disabilities.

Organic Heart lesions -due to Rheumatism. Enlarge Prostate cosiguent upon old age, with good deal of blood in bowels. Applicant has attacks of difficult breathing & is not able to & should not do any labor.

W. H. Payne

Witness my hand and seal this 1 stday of October 1918

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If possible the two witnesses as to character should have served with the applicant in the army and if so let them state in their oath: also any other information regarding applicant’s army service.

State of Tennessee

SullivanCounty Jas. P. Roder a Notary Public personally appeared before me of said County, the above named W. H. Payne and _____________two of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing application with whom I am personally aquatinted, and known to be citizens of veracity and standing in this community and who make oath that they are personally are acquainted with the applicant and the facts set forth and statements made in this application are correct and true “ to the best of their knowledge and belief and they have no interest in this claim , and that said applicant’s habits are god and free from dishonor. And W. H. Payne further makes oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the Confederate army.

State here witness know of their own knowledge

I was a member of Company B Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Confederate Army, to which the applicant belonged. He was in all respect a faithful soldier, always in the line of duty, remaining in the service until the end of war. I was present with him when we paroled in April 1865 at Charlotte North, Carolina

Witness my hand and seal of office this 1 stday of October1918

Jas. P. Roder Notary Public

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Confirmation form for the State of Tennessee

No. 15739

W. H. Coley President Hon. Jno. B. Thompson Atty. General Frank M. Thompson

Frank M. Moses Special Examiner W. L. McKay Vice President Jno. P. Hickman Secretary

Headquarters

Tennessee Board of Pensions Examiners

Nashville, Tennessee October 15, 1918

Adjutant General

Washington, D. C.

Dear sir:

H. H. Delaney

Who is an applicant for Pension under the Tennessee Pension Law, claims to have been a member of CompanyB 4 th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment [Smith’s] C. S. A. and to have been paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina May 3, 1865.

Please give us the record of this soldier.

Respectfully,

W. H. Coley

President

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October 10, 1918

WAR DEPARTMENT

The Adjutant General’s Office

Washington October 10, 1918

Respectfully returned to W. W. Colby

President Board of Pension Examiners

State of Tennessee

Nashville

With the information that H. H. Delaney not borne as Delany Pvt. Co. B 8 th Regt. {Smith’s} Tenn. Cav. C. S. A. also known as 4 th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted Sept. 1, 1862 and appears on roll for Jan. 1-April 30, 1863 last roll as borne Present. No record of capture or parole.

A. C. Norris

The Adjutant General

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Letter from Pension Board

October 28 th, 1918

15379

Mr. H. H. Delaney

Bristol, Tennessee,

Dear Sir:

The Board is now $216,000.00 ahead of the appropriation and it cannot add a pensioner unless it comes clearly under the law.

You say you have no family and the board is forced to take cognizance of the Ninth Section of the Original Pension Law and certify you to a living in the Soldier’s Home.

Respectfully,

Special Examiner

JPH/M

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Letter from the Tennessee State Senate

Senate Chambers

J. Parks Worley State of Tennessee

Bluff City

Senator Hawkins Nashville

Sullivan Counties January 25, 1919

Captain John P. Hickman

and Gentlemen of the Confederate Pension Board Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Sirs:

Mr. H. H. Delaney of Bristol, Tennessee made application to you for a pension sometime during the fall. His application number is 15379. It seems that you replied to him at that time that do account of the lack of funds you were unable to grant him a pension, but you would certify him to the soldier’s home. Mr. Delaney is now 75 years of age is one of most splendid old citizens and is very desirous to spending his last days among his friends and acquaintances and I now write to request and urge that you place him on the pension roll instead of sending him to the soldier’s home.

I feel that this legislature will take care of the financial end of your difficulty and I assure you that I will do all in my power to see that this done.

With very best regards to the Board,

Very truly yours

J. Parks Worley

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Reply from the Pension Board

January 28, 1919

Hon. J. Parker Worley

Senate Chamber

Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Sir:

The Board added Mr. Delaney to the roll on your account.

The Board particularly desires to that the appropriation shall be made by March 1 st in order that the March payments can be paid. Independent of that, it shall look to you to see that the Pension Laws are not changed, and that we are protected.

Very truly

Your friend

JPH-M

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Letter # date June 10, 1948

#15379

59 Williams Street

Mobile, Ala.

June 10, 1948

The Pension Dept.

Nashville, Tenn.

Gentlemen:

I am writing to ask if you the Confederate service record of Henry Harrison Delaney. This is needed for Jasper his grandson for a Cross of Service. The family moved here a number of years ago came from Bristol, Tennessee. They have little information ---only know he was in Wheeler’s Cavalry ---and think he went to war from his boyhood home in Holston Valley, Tennessee. He after the war lived, in Bristol and died there about 1921. He was drawing a pension at the time of his death ---and if it is possible for you to give me his company-----

Letter incomplete

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State Capitol

June 17, 1948

Mrs William C. Strange

President

Mobile Chapter U. D. C.

80 William Court

Mobile, Alabama

Dear Mrs. Strange:

We are enclosing copy in duplicate of information pertaining to the Confederate service record of Henry H. Delaney, as found in his Confederate application # 15379.

We hope this information will be of help to the Grandson when applying for a Cross of Service.

Very truly yours

[Mrs.] Lorene Steinhauser, Director

Division of Confederate Pensions

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Enclosures

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Page 2 of above reply

State Capitol

June 17, 1948

It is shown by his records in this office that Henry H. Delaney, resident at Bristol, Sullivan County, Tennessee, was granted a Confederate Pension in Tennessee on January 14, 1919. The date of his death id not recorded in this office.

Mr. Delaney states in his application that he was born in January 1 st 1844, Enlisted in the Confederate Army in April 1862 in Company B 4 th Tennessee Cavalry, under Colonel Baxter Smith and Captain Cyrus Ingles. He participated in Battles at Chickamauga, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and was incapacitated for service for about six months. Paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, April 28, 1865.

Attached to the application of Mr. Delaney is the following report dated October 19, 1918, furnished this office by the Adjutant General’s Office War Department, Washington, D. C.

H. H. Delaney, Pvt. Company B 8 th Regt. [Smith’s] Tenn. Cav. C. S. A. also known as the 4 th Tenn. Cav. Enlisted September 1, 1862, and appears on roll for Jan. 1 to April 30, 1863, last which borne, Present.

No record of capture or Parole.

Mrs. Steinhauser Director

Division Confederate Pensions

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Transcribed by Theodore Urbanski from Confederate Pension File #15379 roll # 106

Tennessee State Library and Archives Nashville, Tennessee

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