Manual Smith, Company K

The soldier died in the hospital at Brazos, Texas in or about 1865. Thirty years later his mother’s pension application was denied.

 

Mother – 617,678 / —–, Silvia Smith

 

Declaration for Dependent Mother’s Pension, Silvia Smith, 6 July 1895 
84 years old; residence, Elizabeth City County, Va.; post-office address, Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Va.
“… mother of Manuel Smith … who died … on or about September 1865, from the effects of a disease,Ttyphoid Fever, in the hospital at Braz [sic] Texas … Also personally appeared John Walker, residing at Hampton, and Andrew Benjamin, residing at Hampton …”

 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions (Form 3-060), 30 July 1895
“Died in service about September 1865. It is also alleged that while on duty at Brazos, Texas on or about 1865, he was disabled by Typhoid Fever and was treated in hospitals of which the names, locations, and dates of treatments are as follows: Hospital at Brazos, Texas”