James Thomas Dedmon Civil War File

Scott County Arkansas
Civil War Pension Application
JAMES THOMAS DEDMON, CSA
Transcribed & Contributed by Delaine Edwards

5034
Application of
James T. Dedmon
Waldron P.O.
Scott County
Examined and approved
and $50 allowed and Auditor
authorized to draw warrant for same.
Filed in Auditors office
Aug. 6 1901
T.C. Monroe, Auditor
This 28 day of Aug 1901
J.W. Crockett, Sec'y. of State
T.C. Monroe, Auditor

APPLICATION FOR PENSION

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
I, James T. Dedmon do solemnly swear that I served as a soldier in the army of the Confederate States, being a member of Co. "C" (Capt. J.C. Wardlow) 4th Batt. Regiment of Infty. Volunteers from the State of Georgia; that I was honorably discharged from such service on or about the [blank] day of April 1862 and did not desert the same; that my age is 63 years, and my P.O. address is Waldron, Ark.; that I am now, and for the past twelve months have been, a bona fide resident of this State; that I do not myself, nor does my wife, nor do we both together, own property, real or personal, or both, or money or choses in action in excess of the value of $400.00 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel), nor has either of us conveyed title to any property to enable me to draw a pension, and that neither I nor my wife is in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150.00 per year; that I am incapacitated to perfrom manual labor in any of the ordinary avocations of life, and that such incapacity (or disability) is the result of diseased contracted in the service, being measles contracted in service and which affected my lungs and injuring my eyesight and also had mumps while in the service which disease settled in left hip causing lameness and sufferings at times during the whole time since to the present time, also old age and disease, and that such disabilities is not the result of my own vicious habits still persisted in, so help me God.
(Signature) James T. Dedmon
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 9 day of May 1901
L.P. Fuller, County Clerk
By T.M. Duncan, D.C.

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott} SS.
We, the undersigned, sitting as a Pension Board for Scott County, do certify that we have examined the application of the within named James T. Deadman for pension, under Act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, as approved March 11, 1901, and the proof in support of same, and find that said applicant is one half disabled a wounded Confederate soldier, is in indigent circumstances, and wholly or partially incapacitated for manual labor, and that his claim is just, and that he should be allowed $50.00 pension.
C. Malone (Seal)
S.C. Brown (Seal)
Wiley Young (Seal)

Evidence of Physician

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
I, Cheves Bevill a duly registered and practicing physician in Scott County, Arkansas, do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with James T. Dedmon of Waldron, Arkansas, who is an applicant for a pension under the Statutes of Arkansas.
That at his request I have made an examination of his physical condition and find: State description and character of wound [Blank]
Physican condition and to what cause is his incapacity for manual labor attributable: Lungs effected by having measles in the Army. Bronchial catarrh and Prostate glands enlarged. Taking all these together with a badly debilitated condition, he ought to be on the State Pension Roll.
Financial condition: and that said disabilities are not the result in my judgment of his own vicious habits still persisted in.
Means of support: Farm work.
Extent of disability About seventy five percent
The value of all property, both real and personal, now owned by the applicant, is about $[blank]
Cheves Bevill, M.D.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29 day of May 1901
L.P. Fuller, Co. Clerk
By T.M. Duncan, D.C.

[Handwritten document]

Soldier's Discharge

To all whom it may concern: Know ye that, James T. Dedmon a private of Captain J.C. Wardlow's Company (C) 4th Battn. Regiment of Geo. Vols., who was enlisted on the nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one to serve xxxxxxx is hereby HONORABLY discharged from the Army of the Confederate States - By reason of Surgeon's Certificate of disability. Said James T. Dedmon was born in Walker County in the State of Georgia - is xxxxxx years of age, five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, and by occupation when enlisted a farmer.
Given at xxxxxxxxx day of April 1862.
Milton Russell, 1st Lt.
Comdg. Compy. C, 4th Batt. Ga. Vols.

Clerk's Certificate;

State of Arkansas}
County of Scott}
I, L.P. Fuller, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Scott in the State of Arkansas do certify that the above and foregoing is a true, correct, complete and perfect transcript or copy of an instrument of writing purporting to be the Soldier's Discharge issues to James T. Dedmon as the same appears from the

original instrument of writing purporting to be such Discharge this day to me produced by said James T. Dedmon and now before me except the indorsements on the back hereof which are not sufficiently legible to be correctly copied, and except in the foregoing copy of Discharge where ink cross-marks are made thus: xxxxx the instrument being old and writing very dim and indistinct where the cross-marks are made the words which were not sufficiently legible to be correctly copies were where said cross-marks are made omitted as therein set forth, the words omitted being on lines 7, 13 and 17, and on line 13 the word so indistinct and omitted appears to be "twenty two" more than anything else but same is not sufficiently plain to copy and certify same as "twenty two" and the blank space is therefore left at the place indicated.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal on this 9 day May A.D. 1901
L.P. Fuller, Clerk
By Thos. M. Duncan, D.C.
[Written in left side margin:]
James T. Dedmon
Certified
Copy of Discharge

[Handwritten document]:

Surgeon's Certificate of Exemption

Cartersville, Ga., June 2nd, 1863
Jas. T. Dedmon a conscript from Catoosa Co. State of Geo., having been examined by us, is hereby declared to be exempt from military duty on account of Aphoina[?] result of Bronchitis. We furthermore declare this disability to be permanent and that the said Jas. T. Decmon shall not be liable to further examination (unless specially ordered by the Examining Board.)
William N. Bush, Asst. Surg, PACS
C.N. Mayson, M.D.
H.S. Davenport, M.D.

Clerk's Certificate:

State of Arkansas}
County of Scott}
I, L.P. Fuller, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County of Scott in the State of Arkansas, do certify that the above and foregoing is a true, correct, complete and perfect transcript or copy [of] an instrument of writing purporting to be "Surgeon's Certificate of Discharge" issued to James T. Dedmon as the same appears from the original instrument of writing to me this day produced by James T. Dedmon and now before me. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal on this 9 day of May 1901
L.P. Fuller, Clerk
By T.M. Duncan, D.C.

PROOF OF SERVICE
(By Comrades if Possible)

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
On this day personally came before the undersigned, a Clerk Circuit Court within and for the County of Scott and State of Arkansas, Isaac Elrod, a citizen of near Waldron, Scott Co., Ark. whom I certify to be a creditable person and worthy of confidence, who being duly sworn, states that he is personally, well acquainted with applicant James T. Dedmon, having known him for 40 years and upwards.
That he was a Confederate soldier. Belonging to Company "C" 4th Batt. of Ga. Infty. Vols. That as such soldier he served from about the beginning of the war in 1861 to about April 1862 when he was discharged honorably from the service on account of being unable for further service as I understood it and did not desert the same. That he is now and has been for the past twelve months a bona fide resident of Arkansas. That he is incapacitated for manual labor by reason of partial blindness, and from advanced age, his age being now about 63 years and consequent debilitated physical condition and that such incapacity (or disability) is not the result of his own vicious habits still persisted in. That to the best of my knowledge, all property now owned by him and his wife, together, is not worth exceeding $400 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel). That neither he nor his wife is in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, or the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150 per year. That I have no interest in this claim. I was acquainted with soldier before the war and I knew when he left home to join the Confederate Army. I saw him with his Company before they started away and know he served as claimed.
[Signed] I.N. Elrod
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25 day of May 1901
L.P. Fuller, County Clerk
By Thos. M. Duncan, D.C.

PROOF OF SERVICE
(By Comrades if Possible)

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
On this day personally came before the undersigned, a Circuit Clerk within and for the County of Scott and State of Arkansas, P.J. Bird, a citizen of Waldron, Ark., whom I certify to be a creditable person and worthy of confidence, who being duly sworn, states that he is personally, well acquainted with applicant James T. Dedmon, having known him for 40 years.
That he was a Confederate soldier. Belonging to Company "C" Capt. J.C. Wardlow in 4th Batt. Regiment of Ga. Infty. Vols. That as such soldier he served from Sept. 19, 1861 to sometime in the year 1862 when he was discharged on accounty of being unable for service. That he was honorably discharged from such service, and did not desert the same. That he is now and has been for the past twelve months a bona fide resident of Arkansas. That he is incapacitated for manual labor by reason of effects of measles contract in service same effecting his eyes and lungs and from old age and general debility and that such incapacity (or disability) is not the result of his own vicious habits still persisted in. That to the best of my knowledge, all property now owned by him and his wife, together, is not worth exceeding $400 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel). That neither he nor his wife is in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, or the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150 per year. That I have no interest in this claim.
[Signed] P.J. Bird
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21 day of May 1901
L.P. Fuller, Clerk
By Thos. M. Duncan, D.C.

APPLICATION FOR INCREASE OF PENSION

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
I, J.T. Dedmon do solemnly swear that I am now, and for the past twelve months have been, a bona fide resident of this State; that I am now drawing a pension as an ex-Confederate soldier, under an Act of the General Assembly of 1901, having made my original application from the county of Scott; that I am still in indigent circumstances; that I do not myself, nor does my wife, nor do we both together, own property, real or personal, or both, or money or choses in action in excess of the value of $400.00 (exclusive of household goods and wearing apparel), nor has either of us conveyed title to any property to enable me to draw a pension, and that neither I nor my wife is in receipt of any income, annuity, pension or wages for any services, the emoluments of an office, in excess of $150.00 per year; that I am incapacitated to perform manual labor in any of the ordinary avocations of life; that my disability has increased, and I am less able to perform manual labor than when my original application was made, by reason of weak back and kidney and blader trouble, also have lung trouble, and I hereby make application for an increase of pension, under Act of the General Assembly of 1907.
(Signature) J.T. Dedmon
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 25 day of July 1908
W.A. Bates
County Judge

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
We, the undersigned, sitting as a Pension Board for Scott County, do hereby certify that we have examined the application of the within named James T. Dedmon for increase of pension, under Act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, approved March 9, 1907, and the proof in support of same, and find that said applicant is less able to perform manual labor than he was at the time a pension was granted him, and that he is entitled to have the same increased to 100 Dollars.
J.L. Evatt (Seal)
J.P. Hall (Seal)

50
APPLICATION OF
J.T. Dedmon
Waldron P.O.
Scott County
Examined and increase approved
and pension
increased to $100
and Auditor authorized to draw warrant
for same.
This 11th day of August 1908
O.C. Ludwig, Sec. of State
A.E. Moore, Auditor

EVIDENCE OF PHYSICIAN

STATE OF ARKANSAS}
County of Scott}
I, Cheves Bevill a duly registered and practicing physician in Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas, do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with James Thomas Dedmon of Waldron, Arkansas, who is an applicant for increase of pension under the Statutes of Arkansas.
That at his request I have made an examination of his physical condition and find: State description and character of wound [blank]
Physical condition and to what cause is his incapacity for manual labor attributable: To old age and general debility. Disease of the kidneys and bladder, together with a broken down condition of his nervous system and that said disability is not the result of his own vicious habits still persisted in: No.
Extent of disability: It should be put total.
Cheves Bevill, M.D.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30 day of July 1908
S.K. Duncan
By Frank Bates, D.C.

[Very old document]

SOLDIER'S DISCHARGE
To all whom it may Concern:

Know ye that, James T. Dedman a private of Captain J.C. Wardlow's Company, Co. "C" Battn. Regiment of Ga. Vols., who was enlisted the nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, to serve for [illegible] is hereby HONORABLY discharged from the army of the Confederate States.
By reason of Surgeon's certificate of [illegible].
Said James T. Dedman was born in Walker County in the State of Georgia; is [illegible] years of age, five feet ten inches high, fair complexion, by occupation when enlisted, a farmer.
Given at [illegible]
[Missing] day of April 1862.
Milton Russell, 1st Lt.
[Illegible]

[Very old document]

SURGEON'S CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION

Cartersville, Ga., June 2nd, 1863
Jas. T. Dedman a Conscript from Catoosa Co., State of Geo., having been examined by us, is hereby declared to be exempt from military duty on account of Aphonia result of Bronchitis. We furthermore declare this disability to be Permanent and that the said Jas. T. Dedman shall not be liable to further examination (unless specially ordered by the Examining Board.)
Wm. N. Bush, Ass't. Surg. P.A.C.S.,}
C.N. Mayson, M.D.}

[Very old Civil War era handwritten document, mostly illegible due to creases in paper and fading of handwriting.]

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