Alan J. Pitts
Georgia State Troops
Tue Feb 13 07:09:46 2001


There's an Alabama pension request from Etowah County for J. Thomas Rossen. He worked for Dr. M. E. Dozier who had a contract with the Confederate government to make postash. It's unclear to me whether Dr. Dozier lived at Kingston, Ga. or the mines were there, or both. About Dec. 1, 1863, he enrolled in Capt. Nelson's Co. "F", 1st Geogia State Troops, at Cartersville, Ga. He served in northern Georgia through the Atlanta Campaign, and afterwards remembered cutting lumber and building hospitals. There's a stray account about being with Pickett's 10th Alabama Cav. on the Pulaski/Athens raid.

Evidently the pension board denied his request because the law defined Georgia State Troops as not being in Confederate service. However, he must have left people with a definite impression, because several witnesses (men and women) recalled speaking with him while he was on duty during the war. I hope you contact the ADAH and request a copy of his pension record.

• THANKS — bill gilliam, Tue Feb 13 18:00