> I haven't done any research in Civil War Veterans records and was > wondering if anyone with experience in this area could tell me how I > could do this, such as where I might write and also what I might > expect to find in these records. I have a GGG grandmother who > applied for a Veterans pension in 1907 and it gave the pension > certificate number. Any advice would be appreciated. > > "Frank Cullison" <fcullison@yahoo.com> I happen to have just received the widow's pension records for one of my ancestors from Washington DC last week. My ggggrandfather Johnson McGilvery had died in a prisoner's hospital in Lousiana in 1863. His widow Lavinia's file included an affidavit from another soldier from his company that he had died on that date in that hospital. Evidently, there were extra benefits for each child of the widow's under age 16. So, for those younger children, included on the application are exact birthdates for these children and affidavits from the physicians present at their birth. Also included was a letter from the county clerk where Lavinia and Johnson had been married certifying that she was indeed married to Johnson. The file also has a record of her death year, with a stamp that no further benefits should be sent due to death. Receipts of payments stretch from the 1860's to 1897 when she died. Melanie Greenberg "Melanie Greenberg" <mgreenberg@wideopenwest.com>