Here is the partial pension application (there are 10 or more pages) that I found online at http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/pensionfiles.html
which contains important genealogical information. I simply entered the name MOORE and got 80 or more hits. This one happened to be our kin. State of service is recorded making the records very searchable. My husband descends from Ussery Moore.
CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION FLORIDA- 24256
MY NOTES:
Henry Lafayette Moore was the son of Simpson Moore (1811-1883) and Sintha Cain (1809-1860) who lived In Jones and Quitman counties in Georgia. The parents of Simpson are unknown, but he had at least one brother, Ussery Moore, born ca 1807 who lived in Jones, Talbot, and Taylor counties, Georgia, until his death in the 1880’s.
AFFADAVIT
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF PINELLAS
Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared, HENRY LAFAYETTE MOORE, who deposes and states:
I, Henry Lafayette Moore, aged eighty-nine, and being of sound mind, do swear the following account of my service in the Confederate Army to be true.
I was the youngest of six sons of Simpson Moore, reared on a farm near Georgetown, our County seat and post-office, in Quitman County, Georgia.
I was born June 29, 1850.
At the beginning of the Civil War, my five brothers, John, William, James, Thomas, and Taylor, joined the Confederate Army and left home to fight, while I a small boy, remained at home on the farm with my Father, step-mother and their younger children.
In the years subsequent to 1865, my brothers James and John died from wounds received in the war, and their wives and children came to the farm to be taken care of by my Father, Simpson Moore. My brothers, Thomas and William, were made cripples from wounds received and my brother Taylor, was also wounded and later became blind for life. They, also, returned to the farm and my father.
In the first days of 1865, my father, Simpson Moore, who was enrolled in the 811 Militia Company District, was called, but his responsibilities were so great, burdened as he was with the widows and children of his own dead sons and the three maimed sons and his own family, and he, only, able to run the farm, that I, a boy not yet fifteen had developed in strength and in body, offered myself as his substitute. I was accepted and enlisted in Georgetown, Georgia, in the early part of January 1865, the exact date, I do not recall.
I was placed under the command of Captain L. L. Harrison, in Company "H", 2nd Georgia State Troops, a regiment known as Joe Brown's Pets and sent into encampment at Blue Springs on the Flint River, three miles South of Albany, Georgia. We were ordered into Florida very shortly to circumvent the taking of Tallahassee, and were at the Altamaha River when we received word of General Lee's surrender to General Grant in April, 1865.
We proceeded to Tallahassee and were there until the surrender of Generals Johnston and Smith and were discharged sometime after May 26th, the exact date I do not remember.
I was too young to put any special significance upon any papers of enlistment and discharge and have lost them thro the years. As it has not been necessary up to this time for me to apply for a pension, I have never done so. Now, being of advanced years and in ill health, and my wife, also aged and in ill health, I find it necessary to make such application.
An extensive correspondence, of which I offer proof, shows that no records of Joe Brown’s Pets have been salvaged and all my companions, relatives and fellow soldiers are now dead.
I recall Ben Cook, farmer, William Lewis, farmer, and John G. Brooks, farmer, from my own settlement as members of my regiment but they are now deceased. So far as I can learn by thorough investigation; I am the only living member of the company that served under Captain L. L. Harrison.
I have been a citizen of the State of Florida for twenty-six years; I have never been arrested or accused of a crime; I have tried in every way to be a worthy, upright citizen, meeting my obligations and upon these recommendations, I pray that this application be favorably considered.
(signed) Henry Lafayette Moore
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of October A. D. 1939.
M.E. Southearst
Notary Public
Submitted by Sue Burns Moore
sbmoore@swbell.net