Please turn on your sound. Please use your 'Find' to search. The Peter Turney Chapter of The United Daughters of the Confederacy Tennessee Confederate Pensions were first offered to soldiers in 1891. In 1905 Confederate widows became eligible. The files created by the Pension Board include original applications with data about the soldier's life and service.
Many files also contain correspondence and other paperwork related to the claim.
In 1890 the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers Home opened on the grounds of the Hermitage Plantation, Andrew Jackson's home. The requirements for admission was similar to the TN CSA Veterans Pensions. Regimental Histories North and South Civil War For Buffs. Camp at Winchester, TN 1863. Resolved, That the action of the State of Tennessee, on the 9th inst., is to us a source of unfeigned mortification, and regret, as we hoped that her course would have been so different, as to have, by the 4th day of March next, divorced Tennessee forever from her present bonds of political union, and have united her fate-for weal or woe, with her seven proud and gallant sisters of the South, which have so divorced themselves.