Jeremy: I have nothing in the way of an official Confederate service record for James D Pate. >From the 1916-1917 booklet by John Ben Pate we have this clue. "James (D.) Pate, son of Rev. William Pate, was born in Pulaski County Ga., January 29th 1817, and in 1841 was married to Miss Jane Moore, who was born in Gwinett County, Ga., Oct. 12, 1825. He was 5 feet 9 inches tall, with dark hair and gray eyes, and owned several farms, four hundred and seventy head of cattle, four hundred head of sheep, and one hundred head of hogs. He was a very liberal giver to charity and benevolence, and in one year gave eleven beeves, forty bushels of meal and two hundred and sixty pounds of bacon to widows, orphans and people too old to work. In 1858 he was a member of the first grand jury of Wilcox County. In a letter to his family, dated at Macon, Ga., Co. E, Fifth Ga. Reserves, Oct. 6, 1864, he speaks of Savannah, Charleston and Augusta. He writes of his mother as having lived in Augusta, of sickness in camp, of his son Bennett being with him." I know from lots of digging that very often there were no service cards made for men who served in reserve, home guards, railway guard or local militias. Neither James D Pate nor his wife lived long enough to apply for any sort of pension. No pension rights would have accrued to his children. Joel