Mexican War pension application 1889

Gaines C. Smith - pension application

National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Gaines C. Smith: Mexican-American War service

name: Smith  Gaines C.  

age at enlistment: 20

eye color: black

hair color: black

complexion: dark

height: 5'9

birth state: Tennessee

birth county: Giles

occupation: schoolmaster

enlistment: August 10, 1847

where: Athens

by whom: Capt. Jones

discharged: July 15, 1848

cause of discharge: exp. of service

where: Mobile, Alabama

Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Original data: Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.