Item #37940 "TO THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY: THE UNDERSIGNED, RESIDING AT MACON GA WHO IS AN EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND A MEMBER OF CAMP NO. 484 U.C.VS., HEREBY, AT YOUR REQUEST, PRESENTS THIS CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY FOR A CONFEDERATE CROSS OF HONOR. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ON THE14TH DAY OF APRIL 1863, AS A PRIVATE IN COMPANY A OF THE 3RD REGIMENT OF GA RESERVES VOLUNTEERS, C.S.A., AND WAS AT THAT TIME A RESIDENT OF MACON, GA. HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM SAID SERVICE BY SURRENDER OF GEN. R.E. LEE ON THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 1865, AT WHICH TIME HE HELD THE RANK OF PRIVATE. "RESPECTFULLY, W.N. BELKNAP "WE ENDORSE THE ABOVE CERTIFICATE. | C.M. WILEY| ROBT. A. NISBET| "MEMBERS CAMP NO. 484, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS| "APPROVED BY ORDER OF AFF. F. JONES| COMMANDER CAMP NO. 484 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. "R.W. BONNER ADJUTANT." United Daughters of the Confederacy.
"TO THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY: THE UNDERSIGNED, RESIDING AT MACON GA WHO IS AN EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND A MEMBER OF CAMP NO. 484 U.C.VS., HEREBY, AT YOUR REQUEST, PRESENTS THIS CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY FOR A CONFEDERATE CROSS OF HONOR. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ON THE14TH DAY OF APRIL 1863, AS A PRIVATE IN COMPANY A OF THE 3RD REGIMENT OF GA RESERVES VOLUNTEERS, C.S.A., AND WAS AT THAT TIME A RESIDENT OF MACON, GA. HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM SAID SERVICE BY SURRENDER OF GEN. R.E. LEE ON THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 1865, AT WHICH TIME HE HELD THE RANK OF PRIVATE. "RESPECTFULLY, W.N. BELKNAP "WE ENDORSE THE ABOVE CERTIFICATE. | C.M. WILEY| ROBT. A. NISBET| "MEMBERS CAMP NO. 484, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS| "APPROVED BY ORDER OF AFF. F. JONES| COMMANDER CAMP NO. 484 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. "R.W. BONNER ADJUTANT."

"TO THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY: THE UNDERSIGNED, RESIDING AT MACON GA WHO IS AN EX-CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND A MEMBER OF CAMP NO. 484 U.C.VS., HEREBY, AT YOUR REQUEST, PRESENTS THIS CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY FOR A CONFEDERATE CROSS OF HONOR. HE ENTERED THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ON THE14TH DAY OF APRIL 1863, AS A PRIVATE IN COMPANY A OF THE 3RD REGIMENT OF GA RESERVES VOLUNTEERS, C.S.A., AND WAS AT THAT TIME A RESIDENT OF MACON, GA. HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM SAID SERVICE BY SURRENDER OF GEN. R.E. LEE ON THE 9TH DAY OF APRIL, 1865, AT WHICH TIME HE HELD THE RANK OF PRIVATE. "RESPECTFULLY, W.N. BELKNAP "WE ENDORSE THE ABOVE CERTIFICATE. | C.M. WILEY| ROBT. A. NISBET| "MEMBERS CAMP NO. 484, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS| "APPROVED BY ORDER OF AFF. F. JONES| COMMANDER CAMP NO. 484 UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. "R.W. BONNER ADJUTANT."

[Macon, Georgia]: September 19, 1901. Printed broadsheet on pale blue paper, completed in manuscript and docketed on verso. Very Good.

William N. Belknap [c.1845-1911] was a farmer in Bibb County, Georgia, for much of his life. Several military pension applications filed in his later years show him financially destitute and suffering from lung disease and blindness.
Charles Moses Wiley [1841-1927], a lifelong Georgia resident, was a colonel in the Confederate Army and served under Generals Lee and Jackson. After the war, he was a farmer and served as Macon's police chief before filling the position of Ordinary of Bibb County for 38 years. [Obituary in The Atlanta Constitution, Feb. 26, 1927, page 4.]
Abner Flewellen Jones [1838-1926] enlisted as a private in Co. J, 2nd Regiment Georgia Cavalry, "Capt. Crews' Co., Lawton's Reg't", in May, 1862; he later served with Co. A, 2nd Regiment until about October, 1864. He worked as a merchant and grocer for many years in Georgia but was in North Carolina at the time of his death.
Robert Alexander Nisbet [1848-1919] of Macon, Georgia, enlisted with Georgia's Nelson Rangers at the age of 15 and performed courier duties for Gen. Stephen A. Lee. After the war, he became an attorney, a representative in the Georgia State Legislature, and clerk of the Bibb County Superior Court.
The Confederate Cross of Honor was originally known as the Southern Cross of Honor. "The Southern Cross of Honor award, which later became known as the Cross of Military Service, originated on October 13, 1862, as an act of the Confederate Congress to recognize the courage, valor and good conduct of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the Confederate Army. Due to wartime shortages, however, the medals were unable to be made. The recipients' names were then recorded in an Honor Roll for future reference." The cross was later designed and issued by the United Daughters of the Confederacy beginning in July, 1898. [Administrative History, "United Daughters of the Confederacy, Southern Cross of Honor Records, 1905-1941", website of James Madison University Libraries, Collection No. SC 0097.]. Item #37940

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