Henry C. Callahan
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Military Service:
Henry Calihan, Co D, 6 GA Cavalry, Private appears on Company muster roll for Jan 5 to April 30, 1863. Enlisted Feb 15, 1863, Dawson Co GA by Capt Ralston for 3 years. Absent with leave to procure a horse, bounty due.
Henry Calihan, Co D, 6 GA Cavalry, company muster roll dated April 13, 1863. Absent to procure a horse by order of General Davis, bounty due.
Communication Com Pensions GA. H C Callahan Pvt Co G, Ralstons Battn not identified at 10th St. For record of Henry Calihan (not H.C.) Pvt Co D, 6 GA Cav see case #1876480. Capt Ralstons Co, Smiths Legion, GA PR became Co D, 6th Regt GA Cav. Name not found as H C Callahan, Confederate Archives. 10/27/1914-Harley.
Oct 27, 1914: Respectfully returned to the Commissioner of Pensions, St of GA, Atlanta: "No record has been found in this office of such organization as Co G, Ralstons Battalion mentioned within. The records show one Henry Calihan, private, Company D, 6th GA Cavalry (formerly Captain Ralston's Company, Smiths Legion, Georgia Partisan Rangers) CSA Enlisted Feb 15, 1863 in Darien Co GA. The company roll covering period from Jan 5 to April 30, 1863, last on which his name appears shows him absent with leave to procure a horse. No later record of him has been found. H. P. McCain, The Adjutant General.
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Application for Indigent Pension, 1898
Information taken from his application papers (some papers appear to be missing) in Georgia Archives Virtual Vault.
Henry C Callahan, Whitfield County GA, Company D, 6th Georgia
Power of Atty: Henry appointed A. D. Candler as power of atty for the purposes of obtaining a pension.
Affidavit: 12 Mar 1898 by J C Bivings MD and Charles P Gordon MD, Whitfield County, as to patients medical condition....Scrofula complication with lymphes? and disease of kidneys and digestive organs. Also disease of left hand and forearm causing contraction of tendons of fingers and tendons of hand essentially substantially useless.
Ordinary's certificate: 1898 by Jos Boyle, Ordinary, Whitfield Co GA: Patient paid taxes in 1896 in the amount of $20. In 1897 H C Callahan and wife had $180 worth of property.
Questions for witness as to service by M L Clonts, McMinn Co, TN who knew applicant most of his life. That H C Callahan had lived in Georgia since he was a boy so far as he knew. That applicant enlisted in 6th Georgia Cavalry 1863 and he knew this from his brother and others who were in the same command. He does not know the actual service of applicant. But, he does know that that applicant joined the GA State Troops, Co G Ralstons Battalion in the fall of 1864 - and knew this because he was the Captain of that Company until it surrendered.
Additional applicants answers to questions, Henry C Callahan, March 16, 1899. #1: $80 of property given in 1897 was stock bought or bargained for, but I was never able to pay for it and did not own it. It was taken back for the purchase money. I really own no property nor did I own property. #2: Serviced first in the 6 GA Cavalry in the confederate service which I served over a year, in December 1864. I was at Loudon Tenn with the regiment and had been detailed as a cook. The command got into a fight and was scattered. I escaped and came back home in Gilmer County and then joined the troops made up under Gen Wofford, I suppose in the state service. #3 I have explained that in the above. #4 about 5 months. #5 I don't know where my original command was surrendered at. My Capt from Ralston was with me at Kingston. Signed with an "X" as his mark. Henry C Callahan.
Pension office 7/29/1899: Applicants explanation as to his leaving his command not good. Richard Johnson, Comm of Pensions
Statement by D H Brown, postmaster, Resaca GA 24 Feb 1900: "I think if there is a man in the state that needs a pension it is H C Callahan. He is not able to do any kind of work and is poor as any man can be to live. I was in the Rebel Army as long as there was an army and I do think he out to have a pension."
Statement without date, but appears in file near postmaster Brown's. "We sign this for the purpose of helping Mr Callahan get his pension for we think he needs it": John Irwens, C L Bailey, S - Adams, A J Thorn, B B Grant, T P Grant, A H Carder, Fred Cox, W T Cox, T W Stevens, James Faith, James Saylers, J G Carter, H E Erang?, B W Wright, J L Lane, J - Laze, P H Fite, H G Helton, M D Masters, R D Slean, J G Barnett, R L Stone, N C Masters, Jas Stone, H J Holland, L B Johnson.
Pension Office 8/19/1903: He fails to comply with the above notes of Comm, cannot allow pension.
Ordinary's certificate: 24 Dec 1910 by Jos Boyd, Ordinary, Whitfield County, GA: H C Callahan has possession and control of one horse $40; one wagon $20; one cow $15; household and kitchen from $20.
Affidavit of J. N. Bearden, August 25, 1914. Certifies that J N Bearden was a member of 65 GA Infantry from 1861 to latter part of 1864 and was out of said Company because of wound to foot besides being sick and could not get back to this company any more. He detached to Ralston's Battalion in March 1865 and H C Callahan was doing service in said Company D, Ralston Battalion when Bearden was detached to it. He was discharged at Kingston GA in May 1865 and knows this because they were discharged at the same time and place. That H C Callahan had been a resident of said county for more than ten years.
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6th Regmt GA Volunteer Cavalry, Company D was under Samuel Ralston, Gilmer County. Source: Georgia Cavalry Units
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