This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RgB.2ACE/263.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I do not live very clos to Atlanta about 3 hours away. I live about 15 minutes from Vidalia (home of the Vidalia Onion). Actually Confederate Solders were given Pensions. Infact Most of my ancestors got them. I have the pension information on one of my ancestors that lives in Alabama and several for my ancestor who applied in Georgia. I think that the big trick is someting called the Act of 1910. This seems to be when most of my confederate ancestors applied for pension (all thought the one from alabama applied before 1910.) And in all of the documents it stats as the rules comply with the act of 1910. I did also have an uncle who died during the war and his widow applied for pension before 1910. But on the applications she always had to have a lawyer present and he had to sign several of the pages. But several of my confederate ancestors filed for pension and got it. But like I said above most of them applied in 1910. Abner T. Hartsell died in 1914 so I am hopin! g that he jumped on the band wagon and applied in 1910 as well. I appreciate your impute though.