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From: "Bailey Francis" <>
Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Civil War Testimony of Freeling H. COX
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:38:11 -0400


I obtained copies of the nearly 400 pages of my second great grandfather,
Joseph Abraham BROWN's (JAB) Civil War Pension file. There is extensive
hand-written testimony in multiple affidavits. In many instances, the
deponents revealed aspects of their own life and Civil War experiences.
As time permits, I shall post each individual's name and their personal
information from the testimony in the order in which each affidavit
appears in the file.

Freeling H. COX appeared on 17 October 1884 at Coal Creek, Anderson
County, TN, before D. G. COLSON, a Special Examiner of the Pension Office.
He was listed as age 42, farmer, residence near Coal Creek. He was a
member of Company B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry (Union). He was a boyhood
friend of JAB and raised in the same neighborhood. He attended ("waited
on") JAB for about 3 months after an injury in a railroad accident near
Murfreesboro, TN, February 1863. Mr. COX left Murfreesboro for Carthage,
TN, with his Company about May 1863. He mentioned that his company "fell
back" from Strawberry Plains, TN, and went to Sweetwater, TN, the next
day. He says that he "left the company next morning and went home and did
not go back for some time". Mr. COX signed his name to the affidavit with
an "X" mark.

Bailey Francis


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