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- Record guideMilitary pension filesA military pension file can hold an old soldier's own story of his service, his marriage date and his children's names, all sworn before a judge to win a few dollars a month.
- Weekly challengeOpen a soldier's pension fileLook for a pension file for one ancestor who served in the Revolution, the War of 1812 or the Civil War, and read the declarations inside.
- Dictionary drawerMilitary recordsMuster rolls, regiments, pensions and bounty land in service records.
- Detective caseMcGahan or McGann?In November 1865 Ann McGahan, a widow in New York City, asked for a pension for her son Edward, a private in the 174th New York Volunteers who died of illness in the war. Ann signed with her mark. The Army twice said it had no Edward McGahan on its rolls, yet it did have an Edward McGann. Read the four papers from her pension file and decide whether the soldier on the rolls was her son.
- Census guideThe 1840 U.S. CensusThe 1840 census, dated June 1, 1840, names Revolutionary War and other military pensioners with their ages, a rare chance to find an older relative by name.
- Detective caseTwo Reuben Champions?In 1819 Reuben Champion of Lyme, Connecticut, swore that he had enlisted in December 1775 in Capt. Christopher Darrow's company of Col. Samuel Holden Parsons' regiment, and he drew a pension. In 1896 John N. Champion of New Haven wrote to the Pension Bureau about a Reuben Champion of Parsons' regiment, and then about a "Dr Reuben Champion" who died in the war. Read four papers from the pension file and decide whether they are the same man.
- Detective caseWhat killed Seth Hobbs?Seth Hobbs, a private in Company G, 18th Indiana Volunteers, died in St. Louis in the first autumn of the Civil War. His widowed mother, Mary, asked for a pension, and her file holds four papers about his death. His mother never says what disease it was, and one government office says it has no proof he died at all. Read all four and decide what you can say.
- Detective caseHow old was Henry Bogardus?On September 14, 1832, Henry Bogardus of Manlius, New York, a Revolutionary War private wounded at Johnstown, stood in court to ask for a pension. On that one day he was 69 by his own declaration and 68 by the word of two neighbors. His family Bible gives the year, and in smaller writing, a day. Weigh the four papers from his pension file and decide when he was born.
- StoryThe Son Who Paid for the FlourA Civil War mother's pension file from Indiana, and how four years of paperwork proved who kept the household fed.
In the dictionary
MilitaryPPension fileFolder of papers from a military pension claimMilitaryCConfederate pensionState pension for Confederate veterans or widowsMilitaryDDependent Pension Act of 18901890 law pensioning disabled Union veterans for any causeMilitaryFFinal pension payment voucherRecord of the last pension payment, often after deathMilitaryIInvalid pensionPension for a disability from military servicePoor reliefMMothers' pensionState aid so a poor mother could keep her childrenMilitarySService pensionPension earned by length of service aloneMilitarySSurvivor's pensionRevolutionary veteran's own pension claim (S file)MilitaryWWidow's pensionPension paid to a soldier's widowMilitaryAAct of 18181818 law pensioning needy Revolutionary veteransMilitaryAAct of 18321832 law pensioning Revolutionary veterans of 6 monthsMilitaryDDeclarationApplicant's sworn statement opening a pension claim