General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> He was the twin to Susannah Rushing.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
Custom Field:<_FA#> 1866Lived in Township 9 Range 21. Population of township 580, no schools in 1866.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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Solomon James Rushing served with the Confederated Soldiers of America,
enlisted in Montgomery 27, June 1862. On one of his pensions he states he
enlisted in Pike Co., AL in April 1862. He was in Company C, 60th Alabama
Infantry, formerly Company D, 3rd Battalion, Hilliard’s Legion. He was
wounded at the Battle of Chicamauga and was sent home to recover. He
returned to battle and was again wounded. He was in the Confederate
Soldiers of America General Hospital, Farmsville, Virginia 27 April 1865
and remained there until after the close of the war.
Solomon and Rebecca had 16 children. The names of eight are known.
He was a member of Beulah Primitive Baptist Church in Pike County,
Troy, Alabama. When he was a member, the church was located on South
Three Notch Street.  It was organized May 15, 1831 and is Troy's oldest
church.(1)
(1) From the (Troy) Messenger Sesquicentennial Profile 1993.
Asbury and his future brother-in-law, S. J. Rushing, rode home together
after the war and hid under bridges to avoid problems with patrolling
Yankee soldiers. (Gail Whiteaker Hinson reports in her book, quoting
family stories)
Hilliard's Alabama Legion was organized at Montgomery, Alabama on June
25, 1862. It consisted of 3 infantry; 1 artillery; and 1 cavalry
batallion, making 3,000 men. They were encamped at Montgomery, organizing
and drilling, until July 8, when they were transported via Atlanta to
Chattanooga, TN.
Claimant: Rushing, Solomon James
Pension Number: 22046
County: Limestone
On 23 Nov 1911 Solomon James Rushing applied for soldier’s pension in
the state of Texas for his service in Confederate States of America.  He
had to swear that he enlisted and served in the military service of the
CSA during the war between the States of the United States, and that he
did not desert the Confederate service; and that during said war he was
loyal and true to his duty, and never at any time voluntarily abandoned
his post of duty in the said service; and he was honorably discharged or
surrendered in Lynchburg, VA.  It was written on his application that he
was 71 years old; born in Pike Co., AL; resided in Texas for 35 years;
was living in Limestone Co., TX; his post office address for the past
five months had been Mart, RFD #4; that he had never previously applied
for a pension or previously been rejected for a pension; his occupation
was farming; the command that he served was organized in AL; he enlisted
in August of 1862 was discharged at the close of the war; he served in
the 60th Alabama Infantry; and he was transferred in the fall of 1862.
Solomon sign the application with his mark, the "x", on 21 Nov 1911.
The next part of the application covered the Affidavit of Witnesses
in which two individuals who made sworn testimony that remembered Solomon
Rushing serving in the Confederacy.  One of the individuals was his
brother-in-law, Mastin Asbury Hinson, the husband of Lucinda Rushing. M.
A. Hinson’s testimony: "I was member of Co. H. 18 Ala - I personally know
that the applicant was in the Confederate Army. I saw him in the service
several times. After the Chiamaga (Chickamauga) fight I with him was
wounded and we went home together - He was fighting for the Confederacy
when he was wounded. He made a good soldier and was loyal to the
Confederacy." The other testimony came from his nephew, William McDonald
Moody, the son of Mary Jane Rushing Moody.  It was written in the
application that  "W. M. Moody says: remembers his return from the war
wounded - says that he was in the Confederate service when he was
wounded."
Later Solomon applied for a pension from Louisiana and the State
requested inform