1. State your full name and present Post Office address
Answer: John G. Wynne

2. State your age now
Answer: 76 yrs. 5 mos.

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

4. In what State and county were you living when you enlisted in the service of the Confederacy, or of the Federal Government?
Answer: Tennessee, Dyer Co.

5. What was your occupation before the war?
Answer: Farming at my mother's home

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

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
Answer: I owned no land or any kind of property

8. Did you or your parents own slaves? If so, how many?
Answer: My father owned slaves but they were disposed of at his death

9. If your parents owned land, state about how many acres
Answer: as near as I remember 100 acres

10. State as near as you can the value of all the property owned by your parents, including land, when the war opened
Answer: Land here at that time was worth about 15 or 20 dollars an acre

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
Answer: A double log house with 4 rooms and a side room used for kitchen and dining room.

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 (Certain historians claim that white men wouldn't do work of this sort before the war.)
Answer: I plowed and hoed and did other kinds of similar work. White men did not work on farms before war.

13. State clearly what kind of work you 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 did farm work and raised stock and my mother did her house work, cooking, spinning, weaving, etc.

14. Did your parents keep any servants? If so, how many?
Answer: They did not

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?
Answer: It was

16. Did the white men in your community generally engage in such work?
Answer: Most of them did

17. To what extent were there white men in your community leading lives of idleness and having other do their work for them?
Answer: I do not remember

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?
Answer: As a rule they were all friendly and sociable.

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

20. Was there a friendly feeling between slaveholders and non-slaveholders in your community, or were they antagonistic to each other?
Answer: Plitical contests were about the same then as now. Politics were not then as now for instance, the Newberry Case.

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?: Answer: I answered this question above my mistake.

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?
Answer: I think so

23. Were poor, honest, industrious young men, who were ambitious to make something of themselves, encouraged or discouraged by slaveholders?
Answer: I do not know

24. What kind of school or schools did you attend?
Answer: Country schools

25. About how long did you go to school altogether?
Answer: I went to school in winter and worked in summer, do not remember how long.

26. How far was it to the nearest school?
Answer: 3/4 mile to nearest and 3 miles to farthest one.

27. What school or schools were in operation in your neighborhood?
Answer: _____________________

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

29. About how many months in the year did it run?
Answer: 6 or 8 months

30. Did the boys and girls in your community attend school pretty regularly?
Answer: They did not

31. Was the teacher of the school you attended a man or a woman?
Answer: I have gone to both men and women

32. In what year and month and at what place did you enlist the Confederate or of the Federal Government?
Answer: Enlisted in the services of the Confederacy Sept. 1st 1863

33. State the name of your regiment, and state the names of as many members of your company as you remember
Answer: Russels Reg. Ed Smith, Martin Pierce, A. Dickerson, Carrol Pace, Dick Johnson, Claud Johnson, Hamilton Parks, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., Attorney and others I can not think of now.

34. After enlistment, where was your company sent first?
Answer: to Mississippi

35. How long after your enlistment before your company engaged in battle?
Answer: I do not remember

36. What was the first battle you engaged in?
Answer: Okola, Miss.

37. State in you 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, 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 exposed to cold, hunger and disease. If you were in the hospital or in prison, state you experience here
Answer: I was cavalry man under Gen. N. B. Forrest's command and was engaged in battles at Okolona, Brice's Cross Roads, Miss. Memphis, Ft. Pillow, Harrisburg, Paducah, Athens, Ala. I was wounded at Athens, Ala. about Sept. 22d 1864. Was sent to hospital at Lauderdale Springs, Miss.

38. When and where were you discharged?
Answer: I was furloughed from hospital Lauderdale Springs, Miss. Feb. 16th 1865, said furlough is on file in Pension office, Nashville.

39. Tell something of your trip home:
Answer: I left hospital and came back to our horses, by rail then made my way home through the country horse back. I used crutches and had my left foot in a sling.

40. What kind of work did you take up when you came back home?
Answer: I was not able to work for a year

41. 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 an 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 in the questions
Answer: I farmed awhile then was constable, Depity Sherriff, about 16 years and was then elected Sherriff, Dyer Co., Mayor of Newberry and Magistrate of 6th Dist.

42. Give the full name of your father: Benjamin F. Wynne born _________ at_________ in the county of _________ state of Virginia. He lived at _________.

Give also any particulars concerning him, as official position, war services, etc.; books written by, etc.
Answer: He moved from Virginia to Middle Tenn. Then to West Tenn., he was Captain of Muster Roll at one time.

43. Maiden name in full of your mother: Perlina Patterson; She was the daughter of (full name) _________ and his wife (full name) _________; who lived at middle Tennessee and came with my father to West..

44. Remarks on ancestry. Give here any and all facts possible in reference to your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., no included in the foregoing, as where they lived, office held, Revolutionary or other war services; what country the family came from to America; where 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: I have no record of this.