1. State your full name and present post office address:
Answer: Creed Haskins, Newbern, Tenn.

2. State your age now:
Answer: 77 years

3. In what State and county were you born?
Answer: Tenn. Dyer Co.

4. Were you a Confederate or Federal soldier?
Answer: Confederate

5. Name of your Company?
Answer: ----; 19th and 20th Tenn. Cavalry, Walton(?) McDowell, Capt. Ab Hurt, Jackson, Tenn., Lieut.

6. What was the occupation of your father?
Answer: Farmer

7. Give full name of your father: Edward Haskins; born at ____; in the County of Brunswick co.; State of Virginia; He lived at ____.
Give also any particulars concerning him, as official position, war services, etc.; books written by him, etc.:
Answer: None

8. Maiden name in full of your mother: Harriet Jane Foster; she was the daughter of: (full name) ____ and his wife: (full name) ____; who lived at: Virginia.

9. Remarks 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, offices held, Revolutionary or other war service; what country they came from to America; first settled-county 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.
Answer: Family originally from Wales, England

10. 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:
Answer: No property of my own.

11. Did you or your parents own slaves? If so, how many?
Answer: Yes - between 70 and 75

12. If your parents owned land, state about how many acres:
Answer: 950 acres

13. State as near as you can the value of all the property owned by your parents, including land, when the war opened:
Answer: __________________

14. What kind of house did your parents occupy? State whether it was a log house or frame house or built of other material, and state the number of rooms it had:
Answer: Lived in two story log house. Seven rooms with large halls.

15. 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. (Certain historians claim that white men would not do work of this sort before the war.)
Answer: Never worked when a boy.

16. 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.:
Answer: My father looked after his land. My mother looked after the household duties. She had negro servants who did the cooking etc.

17. Did your parents keep any servants? If so, how many?
Answer: We had 75 slaves and used them all as servants if necessary.

18. 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?
Answer: Was considered honorable and respectable and was done by white people who owned slaves

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

20. To what extent were there white men in your community leading lives of idleness and having others do their work for them?
Answer: As a rule slave owners did very little hard work.

21. 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 now own slaves?
Answer: Absolutely no distinction shown. Some of my fathers best friends did not own slaves.

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

23. Was there a friendly feeling between slaveholders and non-slaveholders in your community, or were they antagonistic to each other?
Answer: Yes

24. 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 any in winning the contest?
Answer: None whatever

25. 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?
Answer: Good

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

27. What kind of school or schools did you attend?
Answer: An old school which was conducted in a log house.

28. About how long did you go to school altogether?
Answer: About 5 years altogether. Schools in those days did not last as long as now.

29. How far was it to the nearest school?
Answer: One mile

30. What school or schools were in operation in your neighborhood?
Answer: Two

31. Was the school in your community private or public?
Answer: Private

32. About how many months in the year did it run?
Answer: Six months

33. Did the boys and girls in your community attend school pretty regularly?
Answer: Yes

34. Was the teacher of the school you attended a man or woman?
Answer: Sometimes a woman and sometimes a man

35. In what year and month and at what place did you enlist in the service of the Confederacy or of the Federal Government?
Answer: In the spring of '63 went with a Company which was organized mostly in Dyer County.

36. After enlistment, where was your Company sent first?
Answer: Memphis

37. How long after enlistment before your Company engaged in battle?
Answer: Two weeks

38. What was the first battle you engaged in?
Answer: No regular battle, we were just captured by the Federal soldiers about 50 of us, in Lauderdale Co., Tenn.

39. State in your own way your experience in the War from this time on to its close. State where you went after the first battle - what you did and what other battles you engaged in, how long they 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 prison, state your experience there:
Answer: After being taken prisoner in the spring of '63 I was carried to Camp Morten, Ind. and was kept prisoner there until the spring of '65 at which time I was released. This one engagement was all I participated in being taken a prisoner two weeks after my entrance in the army. We were treated very well while in prison.

40. When and where were you discharged?
Answer: Gainesville, Ala. May 1865

41. Tell something of your trip home:
Answer: My brother was in Gainesville and he gave me his horse which I rode home.

42. Give a sketch of your 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 any office or offices, state 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:
Answer: Helped my father look after the farm.

43. What kind of work did you take up when you came back home?
Answer: I am an old bachelor. Never held any office. Cumberland Presbyterian. Geo. R. Fuller, Newbern, Tenn. lived on the adjoining farm of my fathers before the war, he did not own any slaves but was and always has been my best friend. The Company I surrendered with was all boys. My Captains name was Wallace McDowell.

44. On a separate sheet, give the names of some of the great men who you have known or met in your time, and tell some of the circumstances of the meeting or incidents in their lives. Also add any further personal reminiscences. (Use all the space you want.)
Answer: _____________________

45. Give the names of all the members of your Company you can remember. (If you know where the Roster is to be had, please make special note of this.)
Answer: Rube and Guss Harrell, Dyer Co., Tenn, Frank and Will Johnson, Dyer Co., Tenn, Kit Haskins, Ike Bell, Gen. Bell's son, Polk Harris

46. Give the NAME and POST OFFICE ADDRESS of any living Veterans of the Civil War, whether members of your Company or not; whether Tennesseans or from other States.
Answer: Geo. R. Fuller, Newbern, Tenn, Bill Fields, Newbern, Tenn.