Sarah C. Phillips filed for Widow’s pension from California for the service of Nimrod T Philipps in an unknown U. S. A. unit, application No. 1,577,053, none issued which stands to reason if they found he served in a Confederate unit which pensions were only issued from former Confederate states which California was not.

U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension File

I have not been able to find her pension application papers.