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[letterhead] N.B. � Examiners should be particular to have affiants sign on the line next below the closing words of their depositions so as to leave little or no space between their signatures and the end of their depositions.
(3-456.)
DEPOSITION A
Case of Henry E. Skaggs Ctf No. 640804
On this 4 day of November, 1895, at Collinsville, County of Grayson State of Texas, before me, George M. Flick, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Henry E. Skaggs, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this Special Examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
[handwritten text] Age 64; occupation farmer post office address as above, reside in Cooke Co. Texas I served as a private in Co. C, 1 Mo Vol. Cav. from Sept. 13, 1862; promoted corporal in spring of 1863; and mustered out June 13, 1865 I am now pensioned at $8.00 per month by Ctf 640804 under new law for disease of eyes and heart. I claim pension for piles, as a result of chronic diarrhea, and for disease of eyes; both being incurred in service and line of duty. I have lived in this locality since 1857; I was living right on this place when the war broke out. It got too hot for Union men here � I reckon I would have been hung if I stayed � so I went to Springfield, Mo. where I enlisted. There were six of us left here together and joined the same company and regiment in Springfield, Mo. We were:
Jas [James] M. Skaggs (brother) Marionville, Chickasaw Nation, I.T. [Indian Territory]
Calvin C. Simpson, Purreal, Chickasaw Nation, I.T. [Indian Territory]
Wm. [William] Cockrum, Galena, Cherokee Co. Kansas
Francis M. Hukill, Collinsville, Grayson Co. Texas
James Ware (dead) � and myself.
We left here with a large party of Missourians of Confederate sympathies, but who, in order to avoid conscription and going into the regular Confederate service, proposed going to Missouri and organizing as �Home Guards� preferring to fight on their own hook than as regulars. They organized in two companies one under Capt. Crisp, and one under Capt. Roper. I and my comrades belonged to Crisp�s company. Those organizations were independent and not made
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Object Description
| Title | Skaggs, Henry Ellison, 1831-1899. Papers, 1862-1895. (R0247) |
| Description | These are a diary and papers, 1862-1865, of Henry Ellison Skaggs, pertaining to his service in the 1st Missouri Cavalry in Missouri and Arkansas during the Civil War. Included are a diary, two letters from Little Rock, Arkansas, a photograph of Skaggs in uniform, and a group of prayers. There are also correspondence concerning his military pension, 1893-1895, and genealogical data. |
| Original Format | Manuscript (document genre) |
| Collection Number | R0247 |
| Collection Name | Skaggs, Henry Ellison, 1831-1899. Papers, 1862-1895 |
| Language | eng |
| Finding Aid | http://web.mst.edu/~whmcinfo/shelf10/r247/info.html |
| Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Publisher | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
| Rights | This material is protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). It may not be cited without acknowledgment to The State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a Joint Collection of the University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri. |