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(Form A)
For Use of Applicant for Pension

I, C.C. Drummond, do hereby make application to the State Board of Pensions, for a pension to be granted to me under the act of 1907, Chapter-5600 of the Laws of the State of Florida, upon the following grounds:

I enlisted and served in the Company I 7th Florida Volunteers service of Confederate States during the war between the States of the United States, and that I did no desert the Confederate or State Service; that I was a bona-fide citizen of this State for ten years prior to the date of this application and have been continuously since a citizen of the State of Florida, and that I

(Here state fully the disability under which the applicant claims a pension, whether he lost in service a limb or limbs, eye or eyes, or whether he is permanently disabled by reason of wounds received in service, or disease, to gain a livelihood by manual labor, or whether he is over 60 years of age and is by reason of age incapable of providing a living for himself.)

Am over sixty years of age.

I further represent to the State Board of Pensions that I am not receiving a pension from any other State.

In witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 19 day of June A.D. 1907.

C C Drummond

Witness:
S.B. Hardee
L. P. Hardee

(Form B)
State of Florida

Alachua County

On this 19 day of June A.D. 1907, before me J.W. Drummond, notary public for said County and State, personally came C.C. Drummond who being by me first duly sworn deposes adn says that the statements made in the foregoing application for a pension in his own behalf are true.

This deponent further says, that the answers written herein to the following questions, numbered from 1 to 12 inclusive are true:

1. What is your full name, and where do you reside?

Council Cavosan Drummond, Trenton, Fla.

2. In what State and County were you born and when?

Barnwell Co., South Carolina, Feb. 16, 1845

3. How long have you been a citizen of the State of Florida?

54 years.

4. When and where and in what organization did you enlist during the War between the States?

7th Reg. Company I at Gainesville, Fla. in Spring of 1861. March 8th

5. Give the name of your Captain at the time of your enlistment.

Capt. Algernon Mosely

6. Give the name of you Captain at time of your discharge from service.

Had none. Lieutenant Wilson Jerkins was in charge.

7. Give the name of your Battalion or Regimental Commander both at time of your enlistment and discharge from service.

Col. Starke Perry. Maj. Blunt was in command.

8. If you enlisted in the navy give name of your Commanding officer, date of enlistment and place of service.

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9. If discharged prior to the termination of the war, state place and cause of discharge.

Discharged at Greensboro, N.C. at surrender. Johnson's Army

10. If you lost an eye or limb during your service in the war, state when and where and in what engagement you sustained such an injury.

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11. If you recieved a wound during your service in the war, which permanently disables you, state when and where you received the wound.

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12. Describe the wound and state how it affects you.

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Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 19 day of June A.D. 1907
J. W. Drummond
Notary Public
Comm. exp. 12/12/07

C.C. Drummond
Applicant

Form C
Affadavit to be made by commissioned officer
(not completed

Form D

State of Florida
County of Alachua

Before me personally came H.D. Cook and H.C. Denton who being by me first duly sworn, depose and say, each for himself, that he is a citizen of the County of Levy in the State of Florida, and that he was a soldier of Company I 7th Florida Volunteers regiment in the service of the Confederate States during the war between the States, and that said C.C. Drummond was a member of said regiment; that he is acquainted with C.C. Drummond, the applicant named in the foregoing petition for a pension; that he knows that the said C.C. Drummond rendered the service as soldier or sailor for the Confederate States during the war between the States as set forth in the foregoing petition for a pension. That he did not desert the Confederate army, and that the disability claimed by him to exist does in fact exist and prevents him from earning a livelihood for himself, and these deponents being further sworn true answer to make the following questions, deposes each for himself and answers as follows:

1. Where do you reside?

Bronson, Fla.
H. C. Denton resides in Gainesville, Florida

2. Are you acquainted with the within named applicant for a pension, if so, what is his name? Where does he reside? and how long has he resided in this State?

Yes. C.C. Drummond, Trenton, Fla. 54 years.

3. To what military organization did the within named applicant belong during the war between the states?

Infantry.
Denton says 7th Florida Infantry.

4. Did he render the service to the Confederate States during the war, as claimed in the foregoing answers by him?

Yes.

5. Where were you when your organization surrendered?

Greensboro, N.C.
H.C. Denton says he was on payroll under furlough until exchanged.

6. Was the applicant present?

Yes.
H.C. Denton believes he was.

7. If not, where was he? and why was he not present?

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8. When did he leave the Command? For what cause?

at the surrender of Confederate Army.

9. What is the nature and character of the applicant's wounds or disease?

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10. What is the applicant's occupation and physical condition?

Farmer. Getting very feeble.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of June, A.D. 1907
J.W. Drummond, Notary Public
Comm. exp. 12/12/07

Sworn to and subscribed before me June 26, 1907
S. H. Wienges Clerk Cir Court

H.D. Cook
H.C. Denton
Witnesses

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