Several men from Winston County cited service in the Mail Guard on their Confederate applications. A few received pensions based on this service. For example Ephraim Cagle received a pension from the State and specifically cited the Mail Guard. He also mentioned it on the 1907 Confederate Census for Winston County. He collected a pension until his death in 1911, and his wife was approved as a Confederate widow. This despite his avowed loyalty to the Union on his Southern Claims Commission file (it was approved). Ironically, he was buried beneath a CSA monument in the Enon Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. After the review of 1913, many of the men who city the Mail Guard were dropped from the rolls in Winston.

Speaking of the Mail Guard, Captain Thomas J. White was son of Zachariah White, a fiery anti-secessionist who gave pro-Union speeches in Winston and Walker Counties. White was a Unionist as well and moved to Winston from Fayette county after the death of his wife in 1861. The testimony in the Southern Commission Claims file for Zach White and that of Thomas J. White described them as thoroughly Unionist. However, at T.J. White's death in 1912, it was reported he was buried in his Confederate uniform. Go figure.

William V. Curtis also served briefly in the Mail Guard. He was also elected as sheriff during the war years. Ingle was definitely Unionist, but he was disallowed because of his service in the Mail Guard, but Curtis was approved. The Board took into consideration the death of three of Curtis' brothers at the hands of the secessionists and the family's Unionist reputation in Winston.