Pension File # 8775
State of Tennessee
SOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
NAME J. A. O’Neal
Filed Feb. 16, 1907
Allowed _____
FILE IS STAMPED AcceptedSOLDIER’S APPLICATION FOR PENSION
I, Joel A. Oneal a native of the State of Georgia and now a citizen of Tennessee, resident at Alamo in the County of Crockett in said State of Tennessee, and who was a soldier from the State of Georgia in the war between the United States and the Confederate States, do hereby apply for aid under the Act of the General Assembly of Tennessee, entitled “An Act for the benefit of indigent and disabled soldiers of the late war between the States, and to fix the fees of attorneys or agents for procuring such pension, and fixing a penalty for the violation of the same.” And I do solemnly swear that, while in the discharge of my duty in the service of the Confederate or United States as a member of Co. F 34th Ga Infantry, I was wounded in the battle or battles of ____________, or contracted the following disease or disabilities, to wit: Kidney trouble – has followed me all the time, and that by reason of such and disability I am now entitled to receive the benefits 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: State of Georgia. Madison Co. Jan 17? 1843 [Not sure of day of birth. Could be 7, with a scribble in front of it – View Writing]
When did you enlist and in what command? Give the names of the regimental and company officers under whom you were serving at date of wound or other disability.
Answer: Col. Wash Johnson, Capt Brock
What was the precise nature of your wound or disability, if any?
Answer: Kidney
What limb, if any, did you lose by reason of said wound or wounds, and, if no limb, state fully your disability, and in contracted in the service, and is said disability permanent?
Answer: Kidney – is permanent
Were you incapacitated for service by reason of said wound or disability incurred?
Answer: I was disabled but remained in —–?
Were you discharged from the army by reason of said wound or disability?
Answer: No
If discharged from the army, where were you and what did you do until the close of the war?
Answer: I was paroled in 1865
What was the name of the surgeon who attended you?
Answer: ________________________
How did you get out of the army, when and where?
Answer: Parole May 1865 Hillsboro N.C.
Did you take the oath of allegiance to the United States Government?
Answer: Yes
If so, when and under what circumstances?
Answer: At time of parole
Are you married, or have you been married?
Answer: Married
If so, what is the size of your family living together?
Answer: Myself & wife alone
What are the respective ages of your wife and children living with you?
Answer: ________________________
To what sex do your children belong?
Answer: Wife 64 years old
Are not some of your children able to support you?
Answer: No sir
In what business are you now engaged, if any, and what do you earn?
Answer: Farming – earn —– little
What estate have you in your own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: No real – one mare & milk cow
What estate has your wife in her own right, real and personal, and what is its value?
Answer: Nothing
How have you derived support for yourself and family for the past five years?
Answer: Farming
Do you use intoxicants to any extent?
Answer: No sir
How long have you been an actual resident of the State of Tennessee?
Answer: Ever since the war
Have you an attorney to look after this application?
Answer: Yes
If so, give his name and address.
Answer: C. A. Goodloe
Witness my hand, this 9th day of Feb 1907
(Signed) J. A. Oneal
WITNESSES:
(Signed) J. H. Clay, M. D., Physician
(Signed) _________________, Witness
(Signed) _________________, Witness
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett COUNTY.
Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison, Clerk Co. of said County, the above named J. A. O’Neal, 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 said statements and answers are true.
Witness my hand, this 9″ day of Feb 1907
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk
STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, J. W. Emison, Clerk of said County, the above named Dr. J. H. Clay 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 J. A. O’Neal, the applicant, and finds him laboring under the following disabilities:
Kidney trouble & general debility
Witness my hand, this 9″ day of Feb 1907
(Signed) J. W. Emison, Clerk
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
Crockett County
Personally appeared before me, ______________________ of said County, the above named ______________ and _________________ whom I am personally acquainted, and know to me 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 this 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. And _____________ further make oath to the following facts touching the applicant’s service in the _____________ army:
_____________________________________________
Witness my hand, this __ day of ___ 19__
(Signed) __________________
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The State of Alabama
Jefferson County
Personally appeared before me J. R. Knight a Notary Public in and for said County and State. Mrs. Julia Whare, who being by me first duly sworn deposes and says,
That she is a sister of Joel A. Oneal and that said Joel A. Oneal was a private in the Confederate service during the late Civil War, and that he was mustered out of said service and returned to his home [in Marion County Tenn – crossed out] on the 18th day of May 1865 (and that he entered the service in April 1862.)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 27th day of October 1906
[Signed] Julia Whare
[Signed] J. R. Night NP
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P. B. Nance, President – C. H. Ferrell, Vice President – D. B. Dobson, Cashier – H. B. Nance, Ass’t Cashier
The Bank of Alamo
Capital Stock, $20,000
Alamo, Tenn _________________ 190__
State of Tennessee
Dyer County
Personally appeared before me R. S. Beaver a Notary Public of said County Z. A. Oneal who makes oath in due form of Law, that my brother J. A. Oneal went into the Confederate Army in April 1862 and came out in May 1865, and was under Gen. Wheeler
[Signed] Z. A. Oneal
Sworn to before me this Jan 22nd 1907
[Signed] R. S. Beaver, Notary Public
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State of Tennessee
Crockett County
I Jno. H. Perry Trustee of said County certify that J. A. Oneal is assessed with no property real or personal in this Crockett County.
[Signed] Jno. H. Perry Trustee
Subscribed to before me 2/9/07
[Signed] J. W. Emison County Clerk
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Alamo, Tenn. May 4. 1907
To Pension Commissioners,
Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Sirs:-
In the case of J. A. O’Neal No. 8775, the applicant states as follows: “It is true that I at first served in the 34. Georgia Infantry and continued in that regiment until we were surrendered by Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg Miss. We were of course paroled by the Federal authorities and started home and reached Atlanta Ga. I suppose that we had been exchanged someway or somehow – at any rate while in Atlanta we were furloughed for forty days. Before the expiration of the forty days we were obstructed by Federal authoritie and were unable to get together at Atlanta or at any other place. as a regiment – my own home then being 14 miles from Chattanooga in Dade Co. Ga.. I then joined the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry under Capt. Conatzer – Col. McLemore – Gen. Dibrell’s Brigade – Gen. Wheeler’s Cavalr and served until the general surrender. If in my application it is stated that I was paroled at Hillsboro, it is thus far a mistake that is to say we were surrendered at Gainesboro and took the oath of allegiance at Hillsboro. At that time I was with Capt. Shannon chief of Wheeler’s scouts – These are the facts as I remember them”
[Signed] J. A. (his X mark) Oneal
Personally appeared before me J. W. Emison Clerk of the County Court of said County – J. A. O’Neal swears that the statements made in the above instrument are true; furthermore that I am personally acquainted with the said J. A. O’Neal.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me This May. 4. 1907.
[Signed] J. W. Emison, Clerk
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Adjutant General’s Office, War Department
Nashville, Tenn.
May 8″, 1907
J. A. O’Neal:
F. 34th Ga Inf:
C. S. A.
Tenn Board of Pension Examiners requests record of above named.
War Department
The Adjutant General’s Office
Washington, May 11, 1907
Respectfully returned to the
President, Tennessee board of
Pension Examiners,
Nashville.
To facilitate a search of the records, the christian name of the soldier and the designation of the company of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A., in which he claims to have served should be stated.
The name is Joel.
[Signed] F. C. Dismuke?
The Adjutant General
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No. 8775 A
Headquarters
Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners
Nashville, Tenn. May 8 1907
Gen. F. C. Ainsworth,
Military Secretary,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
J. A. O’Neal who is an applicant for Pension under the Tennessee Pension law, claims to have been a member of Company F Thirty fourth Regiment Ga Infantry C.S.A., and to have been later a member of 4th Tenn Cav (—-?) and paroled at Greensboro or Charlotte N.C. at the close of the war with Capt. Shannon of Gen. Whalle’s? Scouts.
Jany 30/08
The name is Joel A. O’Neal
Please give us the record of this soldier.
Respectfully,
(Signed, but too light to read)
President.
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War Department,
The Adjutant General’s Office,
Washington, February 5, 1908.
Respectfully returned to the
President,
Tennessee Board of Pension Examiners,
Nashville.
The records show that Joel A. O’Neal, private, Captain W. E. Brock’s Company, Johnson’s Regiment, Georgia Infantry, C.S.A., which afterwards became Company D, 34th Georgia Infantry, C.S.A. was enlisted May 17, [Blank], at Trenton, Georgia: that he was captured as of Company F of that regiment, July 4, 1863, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and that he was paroled July 8, 1863. No later record of him has been found as of that organization.
The prisoners of war records (Union) Show that J. A. O’Neal, private, Company H, 4th Tennessee Cavalry, whose name has not been found on the rolls of that company and regiment, was paroled at Greensboro, N.C., —–, 1865, day or month not shown.
[Signed] F. C. Dismuks?
The Adjutant General
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