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He made a claim for pension in 1865, alleging an injury while loading
commissary stores, resulting in spitting of blood, injury to lungs, and
heart disease.
This claim was rejected August 31, 1865.
In 1867 he again enlisted in the United States infantry, and was
discharged from that enlistment March 29, 1869, for disability, the
certificate stating that--
He is unfit for military service by reason of being subject to bleeding
of the lungs. He was wounded, while in the line of his duty in the
United States Army, at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862. Said
wound is not the cause of his disability.
Afterwards, and in the year 1879, he filed affidavits claiming that he
was wounded by a minie ball at the battle of Fredericksburg, December
13, 1862, and was injured by falling down an embankment.
In 1883 he filed an affidavit in which he stated that the disability for
which he claims a pension arose from injuries received in falling down a
bank at Fredericksburg and being tramped on by troops, causing a
complication of diseases resulting in general debility.
The statement in the certificate of discharge from his second enlistment
as to the wound he received by a minie ball at Fredericksburg was of
course derived from his own statement, as it was related to a prior term
of service.
The records of the Adjutant-General's Office furnish no evidence of
wounds or injury at Fredericksburg.
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