Military

Accounts Audited of Revolutionary Claims against South Carolina
(C. Avis Catalog entry #947)

Salley, A. S.  Columbia, SC:  The State Company, 1935

Vol. 1 p. 91-92

(48)
"SOUTH CAROLINA
PURSUANT to an ACT of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY passed the 16th of March, 1783, We the COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY, have this Day delivered to Mr. Thomas Adams late Private in N Martins Troop Polk's regt Sumpters Brigade this our INDENTED CERTIFICATE, for the Sum of Ninety four pounds Sterling amount pay and bounty due him for Services in the Troop with Interest thereon from first of April 1782 to date hereof agreeable to resolution of Gen'ral Assembly of Eleventh March last

Edward Blake
Peter Boequet
Commissioners of the Treasury

Endorsements on the indent:"

...

Summarizing the remainder the entry:

Annual interest:  6.1.1
- Hugh Pollock received the interest for years 1784, 1785 and 1786
- John Costin received the interest for 1787
- Alex^r Hodge received the interest for 1788
- Phillip Hart received the interest for 1789

Texas Society of the D. A. R. Roster of Revolutionary Ancestors v. II
(C. Avis Catalog entry #927)

p. 1052, 1053

HODGE, ALEXANDER, born 1762 in Pennsylvania; died August 17, 1836 in Columbus, Fort Bend County, Texas; married 1788 Ruth _____ ; born 1769 in Pennsylvania; died 1831 in Fort Bend County, Texas or Brazoria County, Texas. 

SERVICE:  Soldier in Marion's Brigade in South Carolina.

CHILDREN:
1. Arche, born November 3, 1790, married Charlotte Reeds
2. William, born 1792, married (1) Margaret Welch, (2) Mrs. Rachel Marshall Hughes (Shelby).
3. Nancy, born 1794.
4. John, born July 6, 1796, married Elsie Smith.
5. Ruth, born July 25, 1798, married William Harris.
6. Alexander, born March 3, 1800.
7. Mary, born 1801.
8. James W., born 1803.
9. Cynthia, born 1805, died in childhood.
10. Lucinda, born November 26, 1809, married Stephen Richardson.

MEMBERS:
Bessie Kegans Weyrich, No. 320794
Hilda McElhenney Griffith, No. 541059
Margaret Mooring Chiles Avis, Jr., No. 343458
Margurite Starr Crain, No. 542197
Fanny Ross Mooring, No. 79815
Mrs. Ross Mooring Hall, No. 85914
Maggie Mooring Rudd, No. 78916
Beulah McCloy Foster, No. 401161
Nell Scaggs Glasscock, No. 394722
Hilda Rudd McElhenney, No. 376834

Historical Collection of the Joseph Haversham Chapter of G.S.D.A.R
(C. Avis Catalog entry #364)

[This Wm. Hodge may or may not be ours]

v. 3
p. 39
WM. HODGE was also a good Whig. His place was some three miles above Grindal's Shoals; it is now occupied by his grandson Moses Hodge.  While Morgan was encamped at the Shoals, his house was plundered and burnt by Tarleton's men, the old man made prisoner, and sent to Camden jail.  He, however, escaped and returned home.  

p. 48
Wm. Hodges resided on Pacolet, two miles above the shoal.  Tarleton went to his house just after the battle of Blackstocks, took him and burnt his house, killed his stock, and sent him to Camden jail.  He cut out the grating of a window with a pocket knife and he, Dan'l McFunkin and some others, passed the guards and made their escape.

Hood's Texas Brigade: A Compendium
(C. Avis Catalog Entry #918)

by Colonel Harold B. Simpson, Hill Jr. College Press, Hillsboro, TX, 1977
seen at Longview Public Library, Longview, TX

p. 137

4th TEX. VOL. INF. REGT.

COMPANY G - GRIMES COUNTY GREYS

Company was organized in Grimes County, Texas, enrolled at Harrisburg, Tex., July 19, 1861, and mustered into the Confederate service "for the war" at Richmond, Va., Sept. 1861.

Key: 

1. Original member of Company

2. Paroled at Appomattox

W. Wounded

(2) MOORING, CHAS. G. - Recruited, Mar. 10, 1862 at Anderson, Tex.; Sick in Charlottesville, Va., Summer, 1862; W., Wilderness (May 6, 1864); Paroled, Appomattox (Apr. 12, 1865).

(1) MOORING, JAS. S. ("Bob") - Detailed to QM Dept. as a teamster, Winter, 1861-2; Sick at Frederick Hall, Va., June 1862; Appt. Surgeon's Orderly, Aug., 1862; Detailed as a Brig. teamster, Mar., 1863; W., Wilderness (May 6, 1864); Lost use of arm & dischgd. for disability.

North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, Patriots and Descendants
(C. Avis Catalog entry #549)

[Apparently, this John is John Mooring, Jr. who died in Pitt Co., NC in 1800]

Vol. 2, p. 181
John Moring (RS-Pvt-NC) 1728-1800 married Sarah Harris

Home Address:  

Confederate Pension Application for George F. Stafford
(C. Avis Catalog entry #897)

File 2249392 Pension #31779

Statement from Adjutant General at War Department to Commissioner of Pensions, State of Texas on 1/21/1915 summarizing the service records:

George F. Stafford was private Co. D, 17th Miss. Infantry CSA, enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs, Miss., captured at Berryville, VA 9/3/1864 and was released at Camp Chase, Ohio 6/11/1865 on taking the oath of allegiance.

Application:

George F. Stafford

Limestone, Co., Post office: Coolidge, Texas

Filed & approved:  7/28/15

Pension allowed from 12/1/1915

Form entitled "For Use of Soldiers Who are in Indigent Circumstances":

Statement of soldier George F. Stafford:

"Discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio in 1865 and after the surrender.  The cause was the close of the war."

Age:  "Was 90 years old in July 1915"

Born:  "In Lawrence County, Tennessee"

Length of residence in Texas:  "Since Nov. 26 1885"

Residence:  "In Limestone County"

How long in said county and what is address:  "Since Nov 26 1885 and Post office address is Coolidge Texas"

Have you applied previously:  "Has never before applied"

Occupation:  "Not able"

Physical condition:  "Totally disabled"

State of command:  "In Missippi"

How long did you serve:  "From 1862 to Close of War"

Name of unit:  "Company D, 17th Mississippi Infantry.  Longstreet.  Pratt Lieut and Cochran Captain"

Ever transferred?:  "Never transferred.  Was under Gen. Longstreet"

What branch?: "Infantry Co. D 17th Mississippi.  I was under Gen. Longstreet"

Ever commissioned?:  "Was never commissioned.  Was private all the while"

Ever detailed?:  "Was never detailed"

Value of home?:  "Does not own home"

Value of property?:  "Does not own any property"

Transferred any property?:  "I have not"

[signed by mark] George F. Stafford

7/17/1915

Statement of soldier:

"Coolidge, Texas 2/18/1915

I inlisted in the Civil War in 1862 on the 14th day of April in Company D. 17th Miss Regiment was Captured in '64 Lay in Prison in Camp Chase Ohio 9 months was Paroled out of Prison on the 8th of June 1865. 

All the above I hereby swear to is being correct as best of my knowledge & belief.  I am now ninety years. 

Witness my hand this 18th day of Feb A D 1915"

[signed by mark] George F. Stafford

Witnessed by P. W. Chumm and Jack Hawkins

[notarized]

Note from Limestone County Assessor:

7/20/1915

Geo. F. Stafford has a homestead value of "nothing" and other property valued at "nothing".

Abstracts from Confederate Service Record for George F. Stafford 
(C. Avis Catalog entry #896)

https://www.fold3.com/image/76796019?terms=civil,us,george,war,stafford

Co. D. 17 Mississippi Inf.
Private No. VA Army (Lee)

Document date - Content

3/25/1862 - enlisted at Holly Springs, Miss for 3 years

4/8/1862 - joined for duty of 3 years at Marshall City, Miss.

5 & 6 /1862 - present with company

Not dated - In Chimborazo Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA. with diarrhea, ac.; admitted 5/4/1862; returned to duty 5/18/1862; remarks:  Lynchburg June 1

5/21/1862 - In Chimborazo Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA. with measles; remarks:  Lynchburg June 1

6/2/1862 - In C. S. A. General Hospital, Danville, VA. with diarrhea Chr..  Returned to duty 10/22/1862

7 & 8/1862 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; received bounty payment 6/30

9/1862 - absent from company due to sick in Richmond, VA

9 &10/1862 - enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years

11/1862 - absent from company due to making shoes

11/21/1862 - on extra duty

11/24/1862 - paid $22 for period 8/1/1862 to 10/31/1862

11/24/1862 - Age: 37; Eyes: Gray; Hair: Dark; Complexion: Florid; 5 ft. 8 in.; Born: Laurence Co., Tenn.; Occupation: Shoemaker; Enlisted: Apr 8 1862 at Holly Springs, Miss. by Upshaw for 3 years; last payment 8/31/1862 $49.50

11/24/1862 - paid $22 for 8/1/1862 to 10/31/1862; signed by mark

11 & 12/1862 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 12/10

12/1/1862 - paid $8.25 for services rendered at Division Hospital near Richmond, VA;  signed by mark

12/10/1862 - paid at Richmond $14.50 for service from 11/1/1862 to 12/10/1862; signed by mark

12/10-16/1862 - making shoes at Richmond, VA (returned to Reg't)

12/1862 - shoemaking in Richmond, VA ("Incompetent ret'd to Reg't")

1 & 2/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 12/31

3 & 4/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 2/28

5 & 6/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 4/30

7 & 8/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 6/30

9 & 10/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 8/31 ("Wounded in action since mustered.  Whereabouts unknown.")

11 & 12/1863 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 8/31 ("Wounded at Knoxville, Tenn. Nov 29 1863")

1 & 2/1864 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 8/31 ("Returned since last mustered")

1/9/1864 - received clothing at Gen. Hosp., Liberty, VA (signed by mark)

2/6/1864 - received clothing at Gen. Hosp., Liberty, VA (signed by mark)

3 & 4/1864 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 2/29/1864

5 & 6/1864 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 2/29/1864

7 & 8/1864 - present with company; enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs for 3 years; last paid 2/29/1864

Not dated - "Appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at Harper's Ferry, West Va., captured by Gen. Sheridan's Forces, sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1864."  Captured at Berryville, VA on Sept. 4, 1864

Not dated - "Appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War received at Camp Chase, Ohio, from Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Sept. 11, 1864."  Captured at Berryville, VA on Sept. 3, 1864.  Rec'd from Harper's Ferry Va. Sept. 11, 1864

3/17/1865 - enlisted 3/16/1862 at Holly Springs, Miss. for 3 years; birthplace:  Ala.;, occupation:  Farmer; Residence:  Holly Springs; Age when enlisted:  33;  married

Took Oath of Allegiance to United States, at Camp Chase, Ohio, 6/11/1865.  Residence:  Marshall Co., Miss; Complexion:  Dark; Hair:  Dark; Eyes:  Hazel; Height: 5 ft. 7 in.; Age:  40; Captured at Berryville, VA on Sept. 3, 1864