"T&R Gowett" <TIM1776@webtv.net> wrote... : For what its worth-on my gggreat-grandfathers pension, the children : were listed as "all of age". : Most of my info on his children comes from cemetery records-and : that still leaves a few BIG gaps on info. What were some of the differences between Union and Confederate pensions? I have the pension application filed with the state of Georgia my g-g-grandmother on my g-g-grandfather who died during the war. It's very sparse and basically the only form of proof presented in it was that she listed the date and place of their marriage, stated she had not married since and statements were taken from three men who served with my g-g-grandfather during the battle in which he was killed. There also seems to be disagreement on that. Most records list his date of death as November 29, 1863, which corresponds with the assault on Fort Sanders in Knoxville, TN, but in other places it's listed that he was killed at "the battle of Knoxville" in October, 1863. I don't even think Confederate forces were in Knoxville at that time. But, these discrepancies could easily be chalked up to the ravages of time as the information was given nearly 30 years after the battle. The best evidence I have is that my g-g-grandmother was still living in the county where she married as were her children who would have all been "of age" at that time, but no mention is made of them in the application or the supporting documentation. I have been unable to locate her on the census in 1870 or 1880, though I've found other family members, including her sons and her mother and sisters. So, I guess I'm wondering if Union pensions were paid by the federal government rather than the states as were Confederate pensions, and is there a general uniformity in the type of information found in Union pensions versus what's in a Confederate pension application? Matt Lupo -- G. M. Lupo a.k.a. matt at lupo dot com Up on the hill, they think I'm okay Or so they say... "G. M. Lupo" <deaconblues@steelyspam.org>