He was discharged from the hospital given a furlough of a given time. After that period, he
was either required to report back to the hospital or to his regiment.
CW records are nowhere near what we think of today. In the main, most of the information comes
from company bi-monthly reports which record date and place of enrollment and presence, yes or no
for each period.
Sometimes we are fortunate to see hospital and Federal POW records. However, none of these are
complete. Many Confederate records were lost during the evacuation and subsequent burning of
Richmond.
Although, Federal records are more complete, not all were captured for inclusion in these records
which were compiled over a 20 year period at the turn of the last century.
Here is where you can go to check Mississippi pension records. If any are available for your man, then you may
procure through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above.
You can also try the Mississippi message board and see if you can find someone in the Jackson area to do a lookup
for you.
MISSISSIPPI
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
P.O. Box 571
Jackson, MS 39205
Telephone: 601-359-6876
In 1888 Mississippi began granting pensions to indigent Confederate veterans or their widows. A published index is available in many libraries:
Wiltshire, Betty C. Mississippi Confederate Pension Applications (Carrollton, MS: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1994).