Jeremiah Beatty, Civil War Pension filed by mother, Elizabeth (#248,485) and father William (# 341530) Elizabeth Beatty of Licking County, Ohio states that she is the mother of Jeremiah Beatty who was a member of Company “F” 135th regiment of Ohio National Guards Volunteer Infantry. Jeremiah was captured on or about the 3rd day of July 1864 at North Mountain Virginia “by the rebel army and was taken to Andersonville, Ga. and held as a prisoner of war until on or about the 25th of November 1864 when he was exchanged at Savannah Ga. And taken to Annapolis, Md. where he was kept for a while and then furloughed home, arriving some time in January 1865, with orders to go to Columbus Ohio to be discharged. That he came home with lung disease and chronic diarrhea and was not able to report to Columbus, but died April the 3rd 1865.” “That he left no wife or child and was a minor at the time of his decease.” On another form dated July 16, 1888 Elizabeth states “that her actual residence forty two years last past has been where she now resides in Fallsburgh Township, Licking County, Ohio…John Beatty her oldest son was borned Sept. 17, 1834 that he was home from the war permanently disabled in 1865 from gunshot wound secured at Chickamauga….She has one daughter who was single in 1865 but is now married. Her husband William Beatty was living in 1865 and is living yet…that this claimant was borned Dec. 7, 1803 (3 is backwards) and is now in her eighty third year. That William Beatty her husband was borned Nov. 10, 1809 that both of them are infirm and unable to support themselves by labor.” Jonathan Frampton, Licking County, Ohio states that he was captured with Jeremiah Beatty and “on or about the month of August 1864 said decedent was taken sick with chronic diarrhea that never got well, that during the month of September 1864 he began coughing and it grew constantly worse until his death…he died in consequence of his exposure at Andersonville.” Isaiah Anderson of Licking County, Ohio gives a similar account of the capture and imprisonment at Andersonville. Elizabeth Beatty died 27 January 1891 and William Beatty filed a pension claim. On Feb. 17, 1891 William states that he is eighty one years old. John Frey and David E. Mosholder state that William was married to Elizabeth on October 8, 1833 “as shown in the family record in the family Bible which we have this day examined: that the said soldier was borned on the 22nd day of January A. D. 1845 according to the same record in the family Bible…” This file has a letter from Jeremiah with an envelope stamped Annapolis Junction. The envelope also bears the pictures of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson and the inscription “The Union is to be maintained at all hazards. Paramount authority of the Constitution and Laws. Suppression of the rebellion by force of arms, unconditional surrender the only terms.” [I will include a transcription of the letter below, maintaining the original spelling, punctuation etc.] Maryland Junction hosp November the 19th 1864 Dear father and mother I seat my self to let you now that I em here yet and till when I will get awa but think I will get to start home in about a weak or to I em getting better write soon and let me now how your getting along the doctor sed that he that that I cood go home in a few days it is so noysy I will stop writing direct >From your aft son J D Beatty William Beatty was dropped form the pension rolls on November 18, 1897 and was last paid to March 1897 “because of information from Postmaster that pensioner died date unknown.” Laurel Baty, L252