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From: Dorothy Boynton <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Civil War - Help - Please
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:48:53 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <e3608c930805281536r6f958d0dmd2c0d2dedfe086b3@mail.gmail.com>


Ellen
Would you please go to that site and type in Jesse H. Wolf and see what you get.
When I orderd - all I got was the one page with the Company letter and regiment name on it.
I can not find a form to print out for ordering a pension for her. When I type in her name as she is the one with the pension number - I get nothing.

I do want to try to do this under her name so can you give me just a little more instruction.

I just may not be doing it correctly but I have tried to do this several times. I have paid twice and got a copy of the same one sheet.



Ellen Reesh <> wrote:
Dorothy,
Write to the AHC and request a copy of his wife's pension application. I
know there is a small charge, I got my gg-grandfathers pension record from
there, go to http://www.ark-ives.com/documenting/confed_pensions.asp and get
the pension number, I think there is an order form also.

Also it is also my understanding from the UDC that the pension record is an
acceptable document for proof of military service.

Ellen Tolleson Reesh

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Dorothy Boynton wrote:

> Several members of my line are seeking membership in the United Daughters
> of the Confederacy. In doing the research, we cannot ACTUALLY get a
> MILITARY Record for our person, Jesse H. Wolf.
>
> Arkansas History Commission provided us one Sheet - saying he served from
> 1863-1865 in Company E, Fristoe's Ark. Cav. Regiment. His Widow has a
> pension number. I am sure she would have applied in AR as that is where he
> or she always lived. That is all they provided to me when I requested the
> Military Records.
>
> Other places you see Fristoe's Regiment listed as a Missouri Regiment.
>
> It is believed that shortly after he went in to military service that he
> and most of the other men who were from Izard County that were associated
> with the Fristoe's Regiment, Co., E. were transferred to Company I of the
> Arkansas 14th. However, Jesse H. Wolf's name is NOT found in any documents
> to that effect, evidently .
>
> Our family history reflects that he was in the AR 14 as his other
> brothers and relatives were. We have that he was captured at Port Hudson LA
> along with his younger brother. His brother was an officer and held and
> sent on to Johnson Island Prison in Sandusky, OH, but Jesse H. Wolf, a
> Private, was dismissed with a sack of corn and told to walk home.
>
> The Fristoe's documents of MO are referenced under Jesse H. Wolf's name in
> the Washington DC Headquarters of the UDC, BUT there is NOTHING in existence
> there other than saying he was in the MO Fristoe's Regriment. No papers
> having his NAME or service record are found.
>
> Of course, family history reflects that he was just associated with the
> regiment a short period of time and then he became part of the AR 14, but
> that UNIT does not show any paperwork for him as being part of that group.
>
> Woudl anyone have any idea who or where or what to contact to try to find
> the papers reflecting his military service? If he served from 1863 to 1865
> in either unit there should be something with his name on it to note that he
> was there. That is a rather long period of time for NOTHING to show up
> saying you there or not there. How would his widow get the pension if there
> were not some papers some where that she used to prove his service?
>
> Is the one page from the Arkansas History Commission enough to prove
> service in the Civil War if it does not show a muster roll or pay voucher or
> anyother such document?
>
> I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Dorothy Boynton
>
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