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Jeremiah Walker Pension Request
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to which deponents company belonged. After the battle, the Regiment with the remainder of Greens army marched to Ramsey’s Mill 19 when deponent not being pleased with the Militia service & finding there Maj. Pink Eaton 20 an officer of the continental army with whom he had served before as an orderly sergeant and enlisted. The Christian names of the latter company officers not recollected and marched to Scotch Lake 21 and took a fort on the Santee thence marched to widow Motts 22 on the Congaree then took a fort thence marched up the Congaree to Col. Hamptons 23 when another fortified Camp of the British surrendered. Thence to Augusta, Georgia where the fortification commanding Augusta, called Browns & Graysons [Grierson] forts 24 from the names of the British officers commanding them, were taken. At this place Maj. Pink Eaton was killed.
Thence marched to a place called Cambridge in South Carolina when he joined Gen. Green again from thence he was ordered off under his old Captain Lydel and Dixon his Lieut. take prisoners to Salisbury, N. C. after delivering up the prisoners to a guard of Militia he thence marched to the High Hills of Santee where he again joined his old regiment under Gen. Green. Here the army was cantoned for some time in order to [recruit] and guard against the effects of disease which was to no ordinary extent breaking in upon the army. After having recruited the line of march was taken up making the Wateree and Congaree rivers at their junction. On the march near Col Thompson the army was halted for some days and [reviewed] by Gen. Green in person. The General remarked to the men that his condition was bad that they were nearly [naked] and worn down by long exposure and service. That he had [on] ___ tried to better the situation to make them more comfortable but without success. That the time was arriving close when they would be engaged with the enemy and in all probability some decisive affair to behave like men fighting for their liberties. Shortly after marched on to [Euta] Springs 25 where we engaged the enemy. Shortly after, the deponent was discharged at Bacons Bridge, S. C. 26 During a portion of the time deponent was in service as aforesaid he remembers of the field officers of his Regiment the names of Col. Tilman Dixon, 27 and Maj. Donahoe 28 of the North Carolina line deponent further states that he served out these various periods for which he enlisted the service of his country, was regularly discharged which said written discharge he has lost and this deponent Jeremiah
Walker hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to & Subscribed in open Court the fifth day of December 1833.
Jeremiah Walker