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Notes for Perry Francis Allman

Source: Index to Mexican War Pension Applications, transcribed by Barbara Schull Wolfe, Heritage House, Indianapolis, IN, 1985
The Mexican War, 1846 to 1848, allowed veterans who had served sixty days, or their unremarried widows to apply for a pension under the act of January 29, 1887. Josephine applied April 1, 1887, she was living in Tennessee and her application number was C477. It lists Texas, Perry must have served in Texas.

Cpt James S. Gilletts Company, 1st Texas Mounted Volunteers

1850 Census Montgomery County Tennessee, lists Perry Allman 25 and Josephine 18, dwelling number 1017 and family number 1017. He was a farmer. Value of real estate owned was blank and they had no children listed.

April 5, 1858, Montgomery Co, TN, Book 6, p 193, Perry F Allman to James Shuff (his sister Elizabeth's husband) for $200, 17 acres his portion of James Allman Dec'd

1860 Census Montgomery County, Palmyra PO, Tennessee, list Perry Allman dwelling 8 and family 8. He was in the Lumber Trade. Value of real estate was blank, value of personal property was 2120. Lists family as Josephine, Florence, Laura, George and Sam.

December 2, 1861- September 25, 1862 appears on Company F, 49th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry muster roll as enlisting for one year at Clarksville, TN. He was appointed 3rd sergeant on January 8, 1862. Company F was part of Bailey's Consolidated Regiment Infantry. The 49th was organized December 24, 1861. It was captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee on February 16, 1862. Admitted on June 22, 1862 to USA Prison Hospital, Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Ill returned to duty July 3, 1862. Appeared on a roll of prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Ill, August 1, 1862. They were released at Vicksburg, Mississippi, September 20, 1862. Reorganized September 27, 1862 and declared exchanged at Aikens Landing Virginia November 10, 1862. It was temporarily consolidated with the 55th (Brown's) Regiment Tennessee Regiment and the 7th Regiment Texas Infantry from October 1862 to January 1863 .

Company C muster roll from September 25, 1862 - December 31, 1862 lists PF Allman as 1st Sergeant. Appointed 2nd Segt October 17, 1862, Appointed 1st Segt December 29, 1862 and was 1st Segt until 27 September. In January of 1863 the men from the Bailey's Consolidated Regiment returned to their former commands.

October 20, 1863 PF Allman was 1st Sergeant, a member of Capt R Yeatman Johnson's Company, 49th Reg, appears on the muster roll at Camp Cummings, Mobile, Alabama. Also, known as Co F.

Perry enlisted at the beginning of the war late 1861at Palmyra, Tennessee 49th Tennessee Regiment, Swift Company G, He served 3 years until his death.

He was killed in the Battle of Nashville Campaign at the Battle of Franklin November 30, 1864. Some Confederates were buried in the trenches, and some side by side in long shallow trenches along both sides of Columbia Pike south of the Carter House with head boards for the known dead. In 1866, these and other Confederates were gathered from the battlefield and 1,481 were reburied by regiment in the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton Plantation. This two acre plot was given by Col. and Mrs. John McGavock, joining their family cemetery. Sgt. Perry F. Allman is buried in Tennessee Section 65, grave 203, A 49th Inf Tennessee.

From Widow's Pension Questions for Witness written by J. H. Dyer, Houston County, TN, "I was with him all the time until he was killed. I help carry him off of the battle field and bury him."

Company "E" Transcribed by Linda Rives Extracted from "Campaigns and Battles of the Sixteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers" Published in 1885 lists Perry Allman as a Private

"PF Allman killed in the battle of Franklin. A Confederate solider. Served as Sergt. Co. F 49th Tenn. Interment at Franklin, TN." Semi-Weekly Tobacco Leaf, December 29, 1882, p 4

Source: Cry Havoc A History of the 49th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment 1861-1865 by C. Wallace Cross, 2004, Hillsboro Press, Franklin, Tennessee, p 87: "Allman, Perry 3d Sgt./1st Sgt. Co. F Enlisted on December 2, 1861, at Clarksville, Tenn. Appointed first sergeant from January 8 to September 27, 1861. POW captured at Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862; sent to Camp Douglas, Ill.; exchanged at VIcksburg, Miss., on September 17, 1861. KIA at Battle of Franklin, Tenn., in 1864; buried at battleground; later moved to McGavock Cemetery, Franklin, Tenn. NFR."

Record Book "Q", page 502
State of Tennessee
Montgomery County
Personally appeared before me Peter Oneal Clerk of the County Court of said county. R. J. Allman and George W. Allman brothers of Perry F Allman said Perry F Allman deceased received his distribution share of the Estate of James Allman from James Shuff administrator and gave his receipt therefore and (word scratched out) they further state that the papers of said James Shuff were kept in a negligent and were liable to be mislaid or destroyed and that his share of said Estate was $97.88
Geo W Allman
R. J. Allman
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 27th day of November 1867
Peter Oneal
Clerk
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