Ggrandaddy was wounded at Bunker Hill, summer of 1864 in the Valley with Jubal Early. His brother was capture there.
His pension was approved at $100.00.
George Martin
STATE OF ARKANSAS
County Logan
I J. M. Martin do solemnly swear that I served as a soldier in the army (or sailor in the navy) of the Confederate States, being a member of Co. K 43rd Tenn Regiment of from the State of Tenn or a member of the crew of the ship called ; that I was honorably discharged (paroled released) from such service on or about the day of April 1865 and did not desert the same; 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 [sic] in action in excess of the value of $400.00* 500.00 (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* 250.00 per year; that I am incapacitated to perform manual labor in any of the ordinary avocations of life (or am totally blind), and that such incapacity (or disability) is the result of wounds received in the service, being shot by a Minie Ball through the Left Arm Old age or of age, accident or disease, and that such disability is not the result of my own vicious habits still persisted in, so help me God.
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* Crossed through