Do you have verification regarding Sam Garner serving in the Civil War? This has been an ongoing problem/question with Caldwell County researchers for years. Sam stated he served but we don't have any paperwork to prove it. He would have been only 16 years old when the war was over. Sam signed as a witness the pension app for my great grandfather J. P. Hellums, however that doesn't prove he was in the war, only that he knew JP Hellums was.