Preprinted document filled out with a typewriter. Document meas. approx. 8.50 x 14.00 inches and is in very nice condition.

In the document Mrs. Mollie Cook of Jasper County, Mississippi is asking for a pension from the state of Mississippi for the service of her husband Francis Irvin Cook who served in Company C, 7^th South Carolina Infantry of McLaws Division of Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Document is signed by Mrs. Cook and dated June 23, 1924.

Francis I. Cook was born in 1841 in Abbeville, South Carolina. He enlisted as a private on April 15, 1861. He served as regimental and then brigade mail carrier and was present until surrendered at Durham Station, North Carolina on April 26, 1865. He died in Jasper County, Mississippi on September 26, 1910 and is buried in Enon Cemetery in Bay Springs.

The 7^th South Carolina saw action at 1^st Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Petersburg and Atlanta. [AD]

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