3XGreat Grandfather A B Sears

[LadyReb]

This letter and the denial of furlough was included in the service records I received for A B Sears.

To All Whom It May Concern

The bearer hereof A B Sears a private of Capt James F Warrens Company – Terrells Regiment T. C. aged forty six years. Five feet eleven inches high. His complexion is dark. Auburn hair by occupation a carpenter. Born in the County of Erie New York and enlisted at Tyler Smith County Texas on the first day of June Eighteen hundred sixty three to serve for the period of three years or the war is hereby permitted to go to Tyler Smith County Texas he having received a furlough from the eighth day of March 1864 to the eighth day of April 1864 at which period he will rejoin his Company or Regiment at Galveston or wherever they then may be or be considered a deserter. The said Sears has not been absent on furlough, absent without leave, or sick leave.
There is fifty four men left on duty in my Company and none absent without leave or on furlough.

J. F. Warren
Capt Co. “H”
Terrels Regt.

A B Sears states that he has a helpless family dependant on him alone, and are very much in need of his personal attention at home now. That he has not seen his family since the first of June last and asks permission to go home to make some provision for their subsistence for the present year. That he has not been off duty since June and asks that his petition may be granted and for the space of Thirty days.

A. B. Sears
(signature)

Furlough
of
A B Sears Warren's Co
Terrells Regiment T Cav

Disapproved & respectfully
forwarded March 6th 1864
A W Terrele
Col M H

Disapproved &
Res - forward
(cannot read this name)
Col Cnudy (?) Dufres
Galveston

[Texas2nd]

Lady Reb,
Do you have a question about A.B. Sears? I live in East Texas near Tyler, Smith Co.
Texas2nd

[LadyReb]

Thanks for asking. I have never been able to find where he died and is buried. I just know that shortly after the war, his wife was a widow.