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1 of Application
Parish
of: Acadia, No.: 8148, Soldier’s Application for Pension: Don Louis Bouillion,
P. O. Rayne, Company and Regiment, K: 18th Regiment, Filed: Nov. 13,
1913, Allowed: March 11, 1914, Quaterly
Allowance: $ (Blank – 17.00 is written in hand across two lines, could be
pension allowance), Pension Allowed from:
(Blank), Rejected: 12/11/13,
Record Since 64-, (Signed, Illegible)
President, Board of Pension Commissioners, Company and Regiment of Naval
Service? B. Fournet’sBatt, K 18th
Inf., Date, Place and Nature of Wound Received? (Blank), Disability – Where and How Occasioned? Old, crippled,
Where and When Paroled or Discharged?
Monroe, LA, If Discharged, Where Remaining until Surrender? (Blank), Age, Not given.
I,
Don Louis Bouillion, state of Louisiana, and now a citizen of Louisiana,
resident at Rayne in the parish of Acadia in the State of Louisiana……………
1.
When
and where were you born? Born in Acadia
Parish
2.
When
and where did you enlist? St.
Martinville, LA
3.
Give
the letter of your Company and the number of your Regiment: Col. V. A. Fournet, Comp. B. Capt. D.
Beroud, Yellow Jacket Battoulen (sic)
4.
Give
branch of service, Artillery, Infantry, Calvary or Navy, give name or names of
vessels you served in, or in what capacity:
in 1863 Transferred to 18 Reg. Col. Armand Capt. Alice Castille; Comp. K
5.
If
discharged or paroled from the army, where wer you, and what did you do until
the close of the war? At Monro. (sic)
LA.
6.
Where
were you at the surrender: At Monro.
(sic) LA
7.
If
a prisoner, in what camp, and where were you released, and to where sent? No. Never Was Captured
8.
Did
you take the oath of alligiance to the United States Government at any time during
the war? Is so, when and where? No
9.
How
long have you been a resident of the State of Louisiana next preceding the date
of this application? Where have you
resided during that period? All my life
10.
Are
you engaged in any business? If so,
what do you earn? Old age and
cripple. Not able to work
11.
Have
you or your wife any estate in your own right, real or personal and what is the
value? A little home assesed at $250
12.
Give
name of two or more of your comrades, with their post office address? Ozemie, Bouillion, at Crowley, LA
13.
Give
your post office address and that of the witness. Don Louis Bouillion, Rayne, LA
The
application is signed by Don Louis Bouillion by his mark and dated Nov. 3, 1913
Be
it known that on this 22nd day of January, A. D. 1914, before me H.
E. Estage (?) a duly qualified and commissioned Notary Public, and for the
Parish of St. Landry, State of Louisiana; came and appeared Major Arthur Simon,
who being duly sworn under the following statement relative to the military
service of one Don Louis Bouillion, an old Confederate veteran, now above
seventy five years of age as follows:
I
became acquainted with the veteran Don Louis Bouillion during the Civila War in
the month of March A. D. 1862 when he was enlisted in the Fournet’s Yellow
Jacket Battalion Infantry, Confederate Volunteers in Company B and I then the
First Lieutenant.
Don
Louis Bouillion continued to serve in said organization and in 1863 I became
the Captain of my Company. In the month
of November 1864 my Battalion became consolidated with the remnant of the 18th
La. Inf. Vols. and formed the new 18th La Yellow Jacket Consolidated
Regiment, Inf. Vols. and I became Captain of Co. K of the new organization
(word not readable) and of which I became the Major in the month of Sept. A. D.
1864. In the month of February or about
in the year 1865(? – difficult to read, strike over) (word not readable) an epidemic
of smallpox, my faithful soldier Don Louis Bouillion was vaccinated on the
right arm by the Dr. of the Regiment; and it unfortunately happens that the
vaccine virus was poisioned and cased terrible ulcers to form on the soldier’s
arm and chest and to such a degree that the bone of his arm and his upper right
ribs could be seen in places. About
that time or later on I gave him a furlough to go to the hospital in Monroe, LA
or to his home (next two lines not readable)…..Hospital in Monroe, LA he was
allowed to go to his home near S. Martinville, LA to be taken care of. No one thought at that time that he would
survive but he generally got better but shortly after that was over he began to
improve with proper care and finally survived and was completely cured in
course of time.
Don
Louis Bouillon, (word not readable) good and devoted service to the Confederate
cause and was a brave soldier as long as he could stand to the last moment.
(signed)
Major Arthur Simon
Ex
Major 18th La. Inf. Batt. Consolidated Reg.
Infantry
Volunteers Confederate Army
Alfred
Mouton's Brigade
Sworn
to and subscribed before me the undersigned authority this 22nd of
January A. D. 1914
H.
E. Estage
Notary
Public