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submitted by Louise Pettus
dec.
Dixon Barnes
Col. 12 S.C.
Daniel W. Brown Exer
Lancasterville, S.C.
Jany 16, 1863
Application as Proof of G.W. Brown, Executor of Col. Dixon Barnes Late Col. 12 Regiment,
South Carolina Volunteers For pay in Arrears, etc.
South Carolina }
Lancaster District }
Personally appeared before me, J.D. Haile, Magistrate in and for the State and District
aforesaid, Daniel W. Brown who states on oath that he is one of the Executors of the late
Colonel Dixon Barnes, deceased, late Col. of the 12th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers who
was mortally wounded in the Battle of Sharpsburg. Md. and from which mortal wounds he died at
or near Winchester, Va. on the 27th tday of September last 1862, and it is as the acting
Execturo of the last Will and Testament of the late Col. Dixon Barnes and his loyal
Representative that he wishes the application and this affidavit in order that he will receive
from the Confederate states whatever may be due him from the Confederate States for his services
as a volunteer Soldier for pay due him in Arrears as Colonel of the 12th Regiment South
Carolina Voluntters as well as for his Bounty of Fifty Dollars which this Deponent does not
know that he received at the time of his death. Sworn before me this 8th January 1863.
J.D. Haile, Magistrate
Daniel W. Brown Exor
South Carolina }
Lancaster District }
Personally appeared before me J.D. Haile, Magistrate in and for the State and District
aforesaid, ______ _______ Hammond, Esq. Ordinary of Lancaster District, who states, that
Daniel W. Brown who makes the above affidavit is the Acting Executor of the last Will and
Testament of the late Col. Dixon Barnes, decd, late Col. of the 12th Regiment South Carolina
Volunteers. That said last Will and Testament has been admitted to Probate in his Court and
the same is now on file in his office and that said Estate has been regularly committed to
the care of said Daniel W. Brown as Executor. Sworn to before me this 8th January 1863.
P. (?) T. (?) Hammond, Ordinary LD
J.D. Haile, Magistrate |
