Soldiers or Sailors Application For Confederate Pension
The State of Alabama
Covington County
To The State Board of Confederate Pension Examiners
The following answers to the queries propounded are respectfully submitted in
support of my application for a Confederate pension under Act of the Legislature
of Alabama, approved Sept. 23rd, 1919.
(1) Q. What is your full name? A. William Clement Shreve
(2) Q. What is your present post-office address? A. Andalusia, Ala. Route B
(3) Q. What is your exact age? A. 76 Years Months 19 Days
(4) Q. How long have you lived in this state? A. All my life
(5) Q. Did you actually serve as a soldier or sailor? A. Soldier
(6) Q. What date did you enlist in the service of the Confederate States?
A. Oct. 1864 Where did you enlist? Greenville, Ala.
(7) Q. What branch of the service were you in? A. Infantry
(8) Q. What was your rank? A. Private
(9) Q. Company? A. F
(10) Q. Who was captain? A. Simpson
(11) Q. Regiment? A. 63rd Alabama
(12) Q. Who was colonel? A. Law
(13) Q. How long did you see actual service? A. From Oct. 1864 to April 1865
(14) Q. Were you ever wounded? A. No
(15) Q. In what engagements?
(16) Q. When?
(17) Q. In what way?
(18) Q. Were you ever taken prisoner? A. Yes
(19) Q. If so, under what circumstances? A. Captured about 1700 soldiers in
Battle at Blakely.
(20) Q. Where were you captured? A. Blakely, Ala
(21) Q. Where were you confined as a prisoner? A. Ship Island
(22) Q. Under what circumstances were you released? A. When the war was over was
carried to Vicksburg and released
(23) Q. Were you paroled? A. Yes, Yankees paroled us at Vicksburg and paid pur way
home, about the 20th of May 1865
(24) Q. When?
(25) Q. Where? A. Vicksburg
(26) Q. Why?
(27) Q. If not attached hereto, where is your parole? A. Dont know
(28) Q. If you were not paroled, when and where, and under what circumstances did
you leave?
(29) Q. Did you take the oath of allegiance to any other government than the
Confederate States before April 9, 1865? A. None
(30) Q. Were you transferred from the company in which you first enlisted? A. Yes
(31) Q. Give the Company, Regiment, to which transferred, when and where? A. From 63rd
to 62nd, same Regiment in Mobile in Feb. 1865
(32) Q. Have you resided in any other State than Alabama? A. No Q. If so, give state
and counties and years of residence
(33) Q. What is the actual value of the property of yourself? A. $15,000.00
(34) Q. Of your wife? A.
(Schedule attached hereto)
(35) Q. Have you any income such as salary, or any other whatever? A. No
(36) Q. If so, what does it amount to annually?
(37) Q. Are you married? A. Yes
(38) Q. When were you married? A. 1912 to my present wife.
(39) Q. What is the age of your present wife? A. 65
(40) Q. If you have any living children, what are their ages, names, and what is
each doing? A.:
Name: Lenora Bell Age: 52
Name: J. W. Shreve Age: 50
Name: J. E. Shreve Age: 48
Name: Ellen Heath Age: 46
Name: Jesse Shreve Age: 44
Name: George Shreve Age: 43
Name: Hilliard Shreve Age: 40
Name: Anna Richards Age: 38
Name: Reuben Shreve Age: 36
Name: Dan Shreve Age: 34
Name: Archie Shreve Age: 32
(41) Q. Was your name taken as a Confederate soldier in the last census made by the
state? A. Yes
(42) Q. If not why?
(43) Q. Do you belong to a Camp of United Confederate Veterans? A. Yes
(44) Q. If so, which? A. Camp at Luverne, have forgotten name
(45) Q. Have you ever made application for a pension before, in this State, and been
rejected? A. No
(46) Q. When?
(47) Q. Why, and by whom?
(48) Q. Have you ever made an application for pension in any other state and been
rejected? A. No
(49) Q. If so, give name of state, and reason assigned for rejection? A.
(50) Q. Where are you registered as a voter? A. Andalusia, Ala.
(51) Q. With whom are you living at the present time? A. my wife
(52) Q. Have you ever been on the pension roll of this State before? A. No
Q. If so, give years when you drew pension, when dropped, and reason for being
stricken from roll? A. (Signed Name) W Clement Shreve
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I hereby solemnly swear that I have answered the foregoing questions truthfully
and fully to the best of my knowledge and recollection.
William Clem Shreve
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of Sept. 1923
H. J. Brogden
Judge of Probate in and for said State and County
CERTIFICATE AS TO SERVICE BY A CONFEDERATE VETERAN
(53) Q. Do you know of your own personal knowledge that the above applicant performed
actual service as a soldier or sailor of the State of Alabama or Confederate
States, and that his command was not an organization only of Home Guards or
State Militia? A. Yes
(54) Q. Do you know positively that the above applicant concluded his service as
stated? A. Yes
(55) Q. What was your Company and Regiment? A. F 63rd Ala
(56) Q. Who was your Captain? A. Simpson Colonel? A. Law
(57) Q. Do you draw a pension from this state? A. Q. Do your draw a pension from
any other state? A.
(58) Q. Do you belong to a Camp of Confederate Veterans? A.
(59) Q. If so, give name and location? A.
(60) Q. What is your post-office address? A. Oakey Streak, Butler County, Ala
X J. W. Williamson X
(Confederate Veteran sign here)
X Signed His MARK X
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27 day of Sept 1922
J. P. Smith
Justice of the Peace in and for State of Ala, County of Butler
AFFIDAVIT OF TWO CITIZENS OF THE PRECINT WHERE APPLICANT RESIDES
We, W. H. Johns and J M Head our post-office address being Dozier Ala and
Andalusia Ala, respectively, do solemnly swear that we have known
William Clem Shreve whose named is signed to the foregoing application 30 years
and 22 years respectively, that we consider him to be a truthful and reliable
person and do not believe that he would make a false statement for the purpose
of securing a pension.
W. H. Johns
JM Head
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of September 1923
AJ Brodleg Jr.
A Notary Public in and for said State and County
****The last name of the Notary Public in my g-g grandfather's CSA Pension
application was hard to decipher. Helena Shreve****
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