I sent the money to the Alabama Archives for military records of a person who enlisted in AL and they were unable to find anything. My cousin in TN then went to the Library in Chattanooga and found the information I was looking for. I still need to find a pension record on this person and am currently trying to figure out how to best persue this. Ellie

At 11:24 AM 3/6/02 -0800, Elaine Sharp wrote: >I sent the money to the Alabama Archives for military records of a person >who enlisted in AL and they were unable to find anything. My cousin in TN >then went to the Library in Chattanooga and found the information I was >looking for. I still need to find a pension record on this person and am >currently trying to figure out how to best persue this. If it's of any help to know this, the pension might not necessarily have been applied for in Alabama, if the person had moved to another state. Pensions were administered in the south by the states, not by the federal government. My husband's great-grandfather, Daniel McLeod Marshall, enlisted in Alabama, but filed for his pension in Florida, where he had moved. Pension applications weren't necessarily applied for right after the war, either. For one thing, various states passed legislation relating to pensions at various times. For another, many (if not most) would not have applied until they had become infirm. Daniel Marshall, for instance, didn't apply for his pension until 1902. For what it's worth. Karen Rhodes