Today is Memorial Day so it seems fitting that this post will conclude my exploration of my ancestor Salathiel Timmons and his Civil War pension application. Salathiel filed for his pension in September 1882. It took 18 months to process his application, and in the end it was approved. It was not a sure thing by any […]

When we last left off, Salathiel was in General Hospital Number 15 in Nashville, Tennesse under the care of Dr. William M. Chambers. Salathiel knew Dr. Chambers before the war, and continued to receive treatment from him even after the war. It seems odd to me that Salathiel would magically end up in the care […]

It is so fun to research family history at a time when records are readily available on the internet. I found some truly fascinating information about Salathiel’s doctor and the politics of his home town prior to, during, and after the war. This is a rather long post and takes a big detour into the […]

As we noted last time, Salathiel was hospitalized on September 30, 1863 immediately following the Battle of Chickamauga. His pension application records state that he was sent to the hospital in Stevenson, Alabama. This would have been Fort Harker, where General Rosecrans established his headquarters. It was about 50 miles away from the Chickamauga battlefield. […]

When we last left off, Salathiel had contracted Typhoid Fever sometime around the time of the Battle of Chickamauga (September 18-20, 1863). He spent several months in a hospital and then returned to his unit on March 22, 1864. When he later applied for a disability pension, he claimed that it was during this hospitalization that […]