How might I determine if this man's pension was ever re-instated? Here's what I know from National Archives records and records found in WV State Archives. Reedy, Eli, 37, b Rockingham Co, VA; forced to enl in Co K, 4th Virginia Militia, CSA; deserted and went to Fellowsville, Preston Co, sometime in 1862; enl Fellowsville, (W)V, 26 Feb 1864, in Co. E, 15th WV Infantry (Union); mus 14 Mar 1864, Wheeling; flesh wound rt thigh, Halltown, 24? Aug 1864; adm Sandy Hook; transf GH Patterson Park, Baltimore, 27 Aug 1864; rtd to duty 20 Sep 1864; trans to Co H, 10th WV, 14 Jun 1865; m 27 Dec 1866/Oakland, Garrett Co, MD; Charlotte Cozad; a farmer at Independence. Preston Co, WV in 1896; d 13 May 1905, Independence. One son, Ernest E., b 12 Apr 1867. Pension denied 21 Oct 1896 because "aided and abetted in the late Rebellion against the authority of the United States by . . . Co K, 4th Regt, 7th Brigade Va. Militia, C.S.A. Appealed, made sworn statement and got testimony from his sister as follows: He lived near Cootes Store, Rockingham Co, VA, about 13 miles from Harrisonburg. He was sick with the typhoid fever, and "for nine weeks I was not out of the house. When I got better, I was walking around the house for about two weeks, when two rebel scouts, Sam Shirkey and Sam Minnick, who lived over toward Sparta, on Lymmans Creek, came to the house where I was sick and told me they had orders to gather up all the men in the neighborhood, for service, in the Confederate army. But I told them I had been sick and was not physically able to go, and if they would wait until I was able that I would go, but they said no, they would no wait; that i had to go with them then, I tried to reason with them to wait; that, if they forced me into the confederate army I would not do them any good, as I would run off the first opportunity I got. but they forced me to go with them against my will and took me to Sparta a little town on the Winchester and Staunton Pike where to too stage to Strausburg where the balance of the company the men belonged to were and I was to the best of my knowledge sworn into the confederate service." Q- At the time the two men came for you to join the confederate army, were you in sympathy with the confederacy, and intend to enlist at some time in said army? A - "Honestly, I could not tell, everything was so split up I could not hardly tell which side to go with. I told the men, as I said, if they did not force me to go with them then, I would when I got well join the confederate army, but they forced me to go, and I got mad and made up my mind then that I would not stay in the confederate army. Q - Did you intend to enter the Union army if you got away from the rebel army? A - Yes, that was my intention. Q-Who swore you into the confederate army? A-I could not tell you now, I could not tell if I was to be hung. Q-By what name was the organization known? A-It was known as a militia company and Joe Jourden who lived in Shenandoah County, Va, near Timberville, was the captain and Genl _____ had charge of us when we marched to Winchester, Martinsburg, and twoards Hancock. (On 6 Nov 1896 identified the regt as Co K, 4 regt Va Mil CSA) . . . I cannot give the month but it was in the spring of 1862, if I am not mistaken that I joined the Conf service. Was with them about four months before I succeeded in running away from them. I ran away three times, and was brought back and the fourth time I got away while we were near Christly Hawes, with whom I was then living; but he is dead. Q-Who was some of the officers over you while in the confederate army? A-Perry Horn was major. I knew him before I enlisted, was raised near his home. I cannot recall the names of the others. I cannot recall the names of the others, they were all stranger to me. Q-Give me the names of some more men in the company. A- . . . Joe Baker waas one, but he is dad. He came to West Virginia when I did. Sam Baker was another one. A-When I ran away "I came right over the mountains from Old Virginia, into W Virginia to Fellowsville this county and I think I was out here, as near as I can tell about a year, I enlisted in the Union Army (on 6 NOv 1896 he says "it was in the fall of 1861 and was here from that time I however am not positive it may have been the fall of 1862 but I do know that I was here when General Jones evaded (sic) W Va) A-His organization was not in any battle. They had "a little skirmish while in the mountains at Hancock, Md, and while several of our mjen were wounded and killed, I did not see the union soldiers or anyone to shoot at." A- "It appears to me that Stonewall Jackson was in command of the army we were attached to, but I did not see him. From Hancock, Md, we went back to Martinsburg, thence to Winchester and back and forward several times. We never got further into the state of Maryland than Hancock. " He was not given a confederate uniform "I wore the same citizens clothes I brought away from home." "They had old flint locks when I joined them. I don't know where they got them, I do not remember whether we had bayonets or not." Sister Elizabeth A. Seviers says they were living with Christly Howes at the time the war began. She says that Eli came home for his clothes "under guard."