My 2nd g-granduncle was James K. Morrow. He was 1st Lieutenant in the 1st TN National Guard USA. When that force was routed by General Vaughn, he and his brothers, along with others shot their way out and would make it to Union lines. There they would make up part of the 3rd TN Mounted Infantry. Morrow was again a 1st Lieutenant and later a Captain. He died five years after the war. His wife received a pension for some years, but it was revoked when someone informed the government that she had had a child out-of-wedlock.. She fought to get her pension back. Here are some questions asked her in the 1890's when she was old and feeble from hard farm labor.

Q.Who was the father of your child you had after the death of your husband?
A.He was Bud Garland. If alive, he lives over somewhere near Blue Ridge.

Q.Have you had intercourse with any man since the death of this child?
A. No, I have not had intercourse with any man since the time I was pregnant with the child who died.

Q. Have you had intercourse with any man since you moved from Persimmon Creek?
A.No I have not. I swear positively that I haven't had intercorse with any man, since I found out I was in that fix with the last child. I quit off right then and I haven't done anything wrong since. I had three children on my hands when my husband died and what I did was to get corn and meal for them to live on.

Anyhow the rest of it just contains the names of people who testified to her character. The grateful country took away the pension of the widow of a valiant officer and soldier. Becuase she got pregnant, in her late 20's, while trying to stay alive with three kids. Humm, wonder if the upstanding gentleman who quized her was having sex in his twenties.