Richard Myers Hedgeman USCT Pension Application

Title

Richard Myers Hedgeman USCT Pension Application

Aliases

Miles Hedgeman (birth name)
Richard Myers
Richard Miles

Date

24 November 1863 - 24 October 1865

Description

Regiment: 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry
Company: B
Rank: Private
Mustered-in Date: 24 November 1863 (Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut)
Mustered-out Date & Place: 24 October 1865 (Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut)

Places where Veteran Fought, Camped, or was otherwise located:
Louisiana: New Orleans
Maryland: Annapolis, Anne Arundel County
Virginia: Richmond; Dutch Gap; Petersburg; Fair Oaks (Henrico County)
Texas: Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas
Comrades: William Essex, John Perry, William Homer, Isaac Gaul

Widows Name: Tulip Coleman
Marriage Date & Place: 22 May 1869 at Oakley Farm, Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia
Children: Marshall hedgeman (1869), Josephine Hedgeman (1871), Captain Hedgeman (1874), Mary Hedgeman (1876)

USCT Veteran's Birth Year & Place: 13 March 1840 | Bristerburg, Fauquier County, Virginia
USCT Veteran's Death Year & Place: 3 december 1930 | Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia
Plantation: N/A
Enslaver: Jesse Peters of Fauquier County, Virginia

Parents: N/A
Family Members: Arthur Hedgeman (Nephew)

Wife's Place of Birth: Abt. 1855 in Fauquier County, Virginia
Wife's Enslaver: N/A
Wife's Parents: Alfred Coleman and Matilda (maiden name unknown)
Wife's Family Members: N/A

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions, now, Department of Veterans Affairs

Publisher

IAAM

Type

Document

Format

Adobe Acrobat.pdf

Language

English

Coverage

United States

Rights

Public Domain | No Copyright

Source

Donated by: Joseph Roby