Note: In 1915 and again in 1922, questionaires were sent to the veterans in Tennessee.  Those that were returned, were complied and
published as Tennessee Veteran's Civil War Questionaires. Spelling has not been altered.

The chief purpose of the following questions is to bring out facts that will be of service in writing a true history of the Old South.  Such a
history has not yet been written.  By answering these questions you will make a valuable contribution to the history of your State.

1. State your full name and present Post Office address:  J. B. King, Church Hill Tenn. Hawkins Co.

2. State your age now:  79 years

3. In what State and country were you born?:  Hawkins Co. Tenn.

4. In what State and country were you living when you enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, or of the Federal Government?:
    Confederate

5. What was your occupation before the war?:  ---

6. What was the occupation of your father?:  Farming

7. If you owned land or other property at the opening of the war, state what kind of property you owned, and state the value of your
property as near as you can: Robert King; Church Hill; Hawking; Tennessee; Chrurch Hill Tenn; Sheriff

8. Did you or your parents own slaves?  If so, how many?:   Parents owned five slaves.  Malvina Gillenwaters; William Gillenwaters;
    Sallie Gillenwaters; Rogersville, Tennessee

9. If your parents owned land, state about how many acres:  My father owned land, two or three hundred acres

10. State as near as you can the value of all the property owned by your parents, including land, when the war opened:  five thoudsand
     dollars

11. What kind of house did your parents occupy?  State whether it was a log house or frame house or built of other materials, and state
the number of rooms it had:  My father lived in a house with 10 rooms

12. As a boy and young man, state what kind of work you did.  If you worked on a farm, state to what extent you plowed, worked with
a hoe, and did other kinds of similar work: I have worked on the farm all my life did all kinds of farm work

13. State clearly what kind of work your father did, and what the duties of your mother were.  State all the kinds of work done in the
house as well as you can remember–that is, cooking, spinning, weaving, etc. Farming.  My Mother did cooking spinning weaving etc

14. Did your parents keep any servants?  If so, how many?: Yes, Two negro

15. How was honest toil-as plowing, hauling and other sorts of honest work of this class-regarded in your community?  Was such work
considered respectable and honorable?: Yes

16. Did the white men in your community generally engage in such work?:  Yes

17. To what extent were there white men in your community leading lives of idleness and having others do their work for them?: About
      half.

18. Did the men who owned slaves mingle freely with those who did not own slaves, or did slaveholders in any way show by their
actions that they felt themselves better than respectable, honorable men who did not own slaves?:  1st Yes   2nd No

19. At the churches, at the schools, at public gatherings in general, did slaveholders and non-slaveholders mingle on a footing of
equality?:  Yes

20. Was there a friendly feeling between slaveholders and nonslaveholders in your community, or were they antagonistic to each other?:
      Yes   2nd No

21. In a political contest in which one candidate owned slaves and the other did not, did the fact that one candidate owned slaves help
him in winning the contest? No

22. Were the opportunities good in your community for a poor young man-honest and industrious-to save up enough to buy a small farm
or go in business for himself?: Yes

23. Were poor, honest, industrious young men, who were ambitious to make something of themselves, encouraged or discouraged by
slaveholders?:  encouraged

24. What kind of school or schools did you attend?:  Public School

25. About how long did you go to school altogether?:  About three years

26. How far was it to the nearest school?:  Three hundred yards

27. What school or schools were in operation in your neighborhood?:  Public Schools

28. Was the school in your community private or public?:  Public School

29. About how may months in the year did it run?:  Three months

30. Did the boys and girls in your community attend school pretty regularly?:  ---

31. Was the teacher of the school you attended a man or a woman?:  Man

32. In what year and month and at what place did you enlist in the Confederate or of the the Federal Government?: 1862 month of July at Kingsport Sullivan Co.

33. State the name of your regiment, and state the names of as many members of your company as you remember:  Co. E 61st Tenn.

34. After enlistment, where was your company sent first?:  Green Co. Tenn

35. How long after your enlistment before your company engaged in battle?:   Dec. 1862

36. What was the first battle you engaged in?:  Chickshan Bayou ner Vicksburg

37. State in your own way your experience in the war from this time on until the close.  State where you went after the first battle-what
you did, what other battles you engaged in, howl long the lasted, what the results were; state how you lived in camp, how you were
clothed, how you slept, what you had to eat, how you were exposed to cold, hunger, and disease.  If you were in the hospital or in
prison, state your experience here:  We were stationed at Vicksburg, battle of Big Black River Siege of Vicksburg.  48 days lived on mule meat, rats whatever we could get.  Was not in hospital nor prison.  disbanden at Vicksburg July 12, 1863.

38. When and where were you discharged?: Christeanburg, April 14, 1865

39. Tell something of your trip home:  Came horse back.  beged what I ate.

40. What kind of work did you take up when you came back home?:  Farming

41. Give a sketch of you life since the close of the Civil War, stating what kind of business you have engaged in, where you have lived,
your church relations, etc.  If you have held an office or offices, stat what it was.  You may state here any other facts connected with
your life and experience which has not been brought out by the questions:  Since the War have been engaged in farming.  lived at Church Hill Hawkins Co. Tenn.  Elder in Presbyterian Church.

42. Give the full name of your father:  __________  ;born at_______________;in the county of: ___________  state of:
___________He lived at ____________.  Give also any particulars concerning him, as official position, war services,
etc.;books written by, etc.

43. Maiden name in full of your mother:  ___________  ; She was the daughter of (full name)  _________ and the wife (full
name)  _____________.

44. Remark on ancestry.  Give here any and all facts possible in reference to your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., not
included in the foregoing, as where they lived, office held, Revolutionary or other was services; what country the family came from to
America; where first settled, country and state; always giving full names (if possible) and never referring to an ancestor simply as such
without giving the name.  It is desirable to include every fact possible and to that end the full and exact record from old Bibles should be
appended on separate sheets of this size, thus preserving the facts from loss: 

45. Give the names of all the members of your Company you can remember (If you know were the Roster is to be had, please make
special note of this.)

46. Give here the NAME and POST OFFICE ADDRESS of living Veterans of the Civil War,  whether members of your company or
not.

 NAME                          POSTOFFICE          STATE
Amous Brown            Church Hill Hawkins Co. Tenn.
Sol Lyons                       "       "        "         "      "
John Walters                   "       "        "         "      "
Add Boyd                       "       "        "         "      "
Jamerm Hillery                "       "        "         "      "
John Kettern               Kingsport    Sullivan Co. Tenn.
Andrew Snapp                "                "         "        "
John Nelms                 Bristol        Sullivan Co. Tenn.
James Booker                "                    "      "       '