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Andrew Franklin Fields


Biography
Born 07/01/1832
Birth Location Russell Co.
Died 02/08/1913
Death Location Russell Co., VA
Father John T. Fields
Mother Margaret Cromwell
Married 09/29/1858
Spouse Permilia Campbell
Military Units
16th Cavalry
Ferguson's Battalion
CSR, Pension, and Miscellaneous Images
16th Cavalry
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Ferguson's Battalion
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Misc
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Pension
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Miscellaneous Information:

Letter mention: Isaac V. Reynolds
Filed pension: 1882, 1900, Russell County
Appears on 1909 pension list: Under act of 1888
Appears on pension applications for: John A. Garrett, 1902. John A. Fields, 1902. William Helbert, 1902. William M. Cook, 1903. Rod Addison, 1903. Jasper Skeen, 1904. A. M. Ferguson, 1904. Aaron L. Garrett, 1908. Jacob Castle, 1909.

Newspaper mention:
Lebanon News, 3/20/1903, 2/14/1913

Notes: Founding member of McElhaney Camp Confederate Veterans, 1896. Received Southern Cross of Honor from Daughters of the Confederacy, 1908.

Obituary online

Military Information:

Compiled Service Record
Card 1
Brevet 2nd Lieutenant, Captain Charles E. Stevenson's Company, Ferguson's Battalion Cavalry

Appears on a muster roll for Aug. 4, 1862 (Dated Aug. 4, 1862)

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Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Elected 2nd Lieut 4 Aug. 1862

Card 2
Private 2 Lt., Company A, 16th Virginia Cavalry

Appears on a muster roll for Oct. 31, 1863 to Apr. 1, 1864 (Dated Apl. 1, 1864)

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Present or absent: Not stated
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x Recapitulation shows Bvt. 2nd Lt. present for duty

Card 3

Appears on a muster roll for Oct. 31, 1863 to Oct. 31, 1864 (Dated Nov. 30, 1864)

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Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Wounded unable to attend to duty

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Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1864 (Dated Dec. 31, 1864)

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Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Present not able for duty wounded

Card 5

Appears on a Roster dated Jan., 1865.

Date of commission: Aug. 5, 1862

Remarks: Present

Card 6

Appears on a copy of an
Election Return
for field officers dated: Hdqrs Camp of Instruction near Salem, Va. Jan. 16, 1863

Remarks: Present & Voting

Card 7

Appears on a
Report of Sick and Wounded
in General Hospital,
at Harrisburg, Va.,
for the week ending Nov. 14, 1864

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Appears on a
Register
containing Rosters of Commissioned Officers, Provisional Army Confederate States.

Date of appointment: Aug. 4, 1864
Date of resignation, death, transfer or promotion: R. I. C. Mar. 27, 1865

Card 9

Appears on a
Register
of the Invalid Corps. P. A. C. S.

Date of retirement: Mch. 27, 1865

Remarks: F 33 4 T D

Card 10

INVALID CORPS
CERTIFICATE OF RETIREMENT
[Remainder of certificate, dated March 27, 1865.]

Card 11

Voucher No. 80
Paid the 31st day of Dec. 1864
Lt. A. F. Fields
Comp. "A" 16th Va. Cav.
From the 1st day of Dec. 1863
to the 31st day of Dec. 1864
Pay: $1170.00

Card 12

[Pay voucher. Signed by name.]

Card 13

[Requisition for forage. October 16, 1864.]

Card 14

[Requisition for forage for 90 horses. October 16, 1864.]

Card 15

[Special requisition, July 31, 1863.]

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[Requisition for pants, shirts, drawers, jackets, shoes, horse shoes, nails. July 31, 1863. Signed by name, commanding company.]

Card 17

[Requisition for forage. November 14, 1864.]

Card 18

[Requisition for forage. November 14, 1864.]

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