Civil War Broughton's

During the Civil War, John Green Broughton joined the Confederate Army. The records filed in the War Department in Washington D.C. indicate John G. was living in Choctaw County Mississippi when he enlisted on May 12, 1863 at Jackson, Mississippi. He was assigned to Company G, 5th Mississippi Cavalry and served under General Forrest. In an application for a pension years later, John G. stated he was in "paroled or discharged" in Tupelo Mississippi in 1864 and that he was in Greensboro Mississippi when the Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General U. S. Grant. However, according to the War Department-Adjutant General's Office, the last record - a "Muster roll March & April 1864" dated May 14, 1864 - on file in Washington DC shows J. G. deserted February 15, 1864 at Grenada, Mississippi. For that reason when, at the age of 83, John Green Broughton applied for a Confederate pension in 1931, the Louisiana Board of Pension Commissioners denied his request.

SOURCE:
Soldier's Application for Confederate Pension No#19851
US National Archives, Washington DC.