American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Three applications for Jesse T. WALLACE (also listed in records as Wallis) of 43rd Georgia Infantry, Co. I. 29th April 1881, 1 May 1894, and 14 April 1898. Applications for relief for disability caused by a gunshot wound in his bowels received at the Battle of Champion Hill on 16 May 1863. The verso of the earliest application contains an autograph letter signed by auditor J.M. Carmichael rejecting the application as Wallace did not serve for Alabama. -- Two applications for private Hilary WALDREP (also listed in records as VanBuren Waldrep) of 16th Alabama Infantry, Co. I. 31 May 1894. Wounded in action at Chickamauga on 30 November 1864, "shot through the right jaw and neck. Also being shot through both thighs and flesh wound across the bowels." One copy has docketing to verso rejecting the application, dated 24 June 1895. -- One application for D.D.K. SMITH of 2nd Arkansas Battery of Shoup's Battalion of Artillery (also known as Trigg's Arkansas Battery, Austin's Artillery, and other names). 1 March 1894. Wounded in action at Shiloh on 5 April 1862, "wounded by bomb shell fracturing the skull & taking off part of frontal bone." -- Together, 6 partly-printed documents, all completed in  Lawrence County, AL, docketing to versos, some separations along old creases, occasional toning or soiling.