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Post by benotforgot on Apr 8, 2008 15:55:45 GMT -6
In a letter dated 24 May 1930 from the War Department in Washington. . . .
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 8, 2008 15:56:22 GMT -6
Online I found the following :: Cain Isaack Company I Regiment 42 AL Hospital No.3 DOD 3/28/1863 Grave #951 :: This Isaack Cain was buried in Vicksburg following his death during the time of the Vicksburg Campaign.
42nd Alabama Infantry. Confederate troops in the defense of Vicksburg. Vicksburg National Military Park. Multiple iron tablet located in the northeast end of the Anshe Chesed Jewish Cemetery. Also a trench marker located on the south side of Clay Street between Melborn Place and the park tour road overpass. During the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, the regiment was assigned to Brig. Gen. John C. Moore's Brigade of Maj. Gen. Dabney H. Maury's Division, Maj. Gen. Carter L. Steven's 2nd Military District in Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. In the Yazoo Pass Expedition ( 3 February 1863 - 10 April 1863) the regiment was assigned to Brig. Gen. John C. Moore's Brigade of Maj. Gen. William W. Loring's Confederate Forces. This unit was attached to Brig. Gen. John C. Moore's 2nd Brigade of Maj. Gen. John H. Forney's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's Army of Vicksburg and was commanded by Col. John W. Portis & Lt. Col. Thomas C. Lanier. [Refer to Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume I, pages 226 & 593 and Volume III, pages 779, 870 & 966.
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 8, 2008 16:00:01 GMT -6
Susanna Cain's "Widow's Application for Confederate Pension" was dated 6 June 1930, less than two weeks before she died after being bedridden since October of 1929. In a cover letter (from the County Judge) which accompanied the application, W. F. Schlosshan observed that, "...she (Susannah) is very old ~ more than 88 years, and she was not able to furnish all the information in her application...."
In said application it is alleged that Susannah stated that she was married to Isaac Cosby CAIN in 1858 in Franklin County, Alabama. It is also alleged that Susannah stated that her husband had died in 1865 in Alabama. In another part of the same application, it is stated that Isaac CAIN "...may have died before being discharged."
Online I found the following :: Cain Isaack Company I Regiment 42 AL Hospital No.3 DOD 3/28/1863 Grave #951 :: This Isaack Cain was buried in Vicksburg following his death during the time of the Vicksburg Campaign.
HOWEVER, "their" daughter, Mary Susan (CAIN) Pounders, was allegedly born 30 September 1873 in Franklin County, Alabama ~~ c. eight years after Susannah supposedly said that Isaac died, and more than 10 years after the death of an "Isaack Cain" at Vicksburg.
A letter dated 24 May 1930 from the War Department in Washington stated the following: "...the records show that one Isaac Cain enlisted August 10, 1862, at Columbus, as private of Company I, 42d Alabama Infantry, C.S.A....The company muster roll for September and October, 1862,...reports him absent, taken prisoner and paroled October 5, 1862. Another records shows that he was paroled at Bolivar, Tennessee, October 13, 1862. No later record of him has been found...."
Susannah's pension application was approved, but it appears that the only payment made was after her death, when one of her grandsons made an "Application for Mortuary Warrant."
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Post by benotforgot on Apr 8, 2008 16:08:03 GMT -6
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