Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows Living in Carroll County roll
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a roll listing information on ex-Confederate soldiers and the widows of ex-Confederate soldiers who were living in Carroll County, Georgia, as of January 1, 1921.
The roll is divided into the two sections noted above. It is composed of a total of eight loose pages (16.75" x 13.75") with three of them blank.
There names of 234 ex-Confederate soldiers are recorded. The information collected on each is as follows: Name, Company, Regiment or Other Command, Enlisted-When and Where, Discharged-When and Where, and Post Office Address. Those men giving a post office address noted that they were receiving mail in the following communities: Banning, Barge, Bowdon, Bowdon Junction, Bremen, Carrollton, Clem, Mount Zion, Roopville, Temple, Villa Rica, Waco, and Whitesburg.
The names of 140 widows of ex-Confederate soldiers are recorded. The information collected on each is as follows: Name, Widow of, His Company, Regiment or Other Command, Enlisted-When and Where, Discharged-When and Where, Her Post-Office Address. Those women giving a post office address noted that they were receiving mail in the following communities: Banning, Bowdon, Bremen, Carrollton, Cass, Clem, Roopville, Temple, Villa Rica, Waco, and Whitesburg.
Dates
- 1921
Conditions Governing Access note
Open to all users
Conditions Governing Use note
As stipulated by U.S. copyright laws
Biographical/Historical note
With the Confederacy dissolved after the war, no central governmental agency provided pensions for the service or disability of Confederate soldiers. Some of the former Confederate states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia authorized pensions to veterans and their widows. Each state had its own regulations which applicants had to meet. In each case, however, the pension could be paid only if the applicant continued to reside within the state's borders. In Georgia, the first law providing pensions for Confederate soldiers was passed in 1879. Later, pensions were granted to the widows of Confederate soldiers as well.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Georgia, Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data: Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.
Extent
0.4 Linear feet (2 ov folders)
Language
English
Overview
This collection consists of a roll listing information on ex-Confederate soldiers and the widows of ex-Confederate soldiers who were living in Carroll County, Georgia, as of January 1, 1921.
Arrangement note
Organized in two series: 1. List of Widows of Ex-Confederate Soldiers in Carroll County and 2. List of Ex-Confederate Soldiers in Carroll County
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of the Carroll County Genealogical Society by Carol Ferling on February 20, 2018.
- Title
- Guide to the Ex-Confederate Soldiers and Widows Living in Carroll County Roll LH-0106
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Catherine Hendricks
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the University of West Georgia Special Collections Repository
Special Collections, Ingram Library
University of West Georgia
1601 Maple Street
Carrollton GA 30118-2000 United States
special@westga.edu