[T]he marriage ceremony was performed by a colored preacher named Abram Allen & as Rosette was a house servant, the marriage was performed in the dwelling house of Mr Perry.

Daniel Anderson, says he was at the battle of Fort Pillow and was detailed to assist in burying the dead the next day. . .and recognized the body of deceased among the dead and helped bury him.

[T]hat he...was captured by the Rebels, but was with them only two days when he managed to make his escape...

[Rachel] left her owners with her said husband, and was with him continuously to the day of his death at Fort Pillow...

...the exposure incident thereto caused a cold which settled on his lungs, fever also set in & carried him of (sic), that he died at Memphis Tenn. on the 18 day of May 1865.

I am a poor woman struggling by washing clothes to keep the wolf from my door.

[Y]ou are advised that your above cited claim for restoration to the pension rolls...was rejected November 20, 1893, on the ground that you had been guilty of open, notorious adulterous cohabitation since the soldier's death....

[He] was in the battle at Fort Pillow on the 12" of April 1864, and knows that the said Benton [Deloni] was in the said battle and was killed, that he saw him after he was dead....