Manuscript Group 563, Civil War Pensions Commission, Record Book, 1885-1887

 

 

563.  CIVIL WAR PENSIONS COMMISSION

 
Record Book, 1885-87. 1 vol.

 
Concerns the handling of applications for Civil War pensions

 

submitted
by New Jersey veterans or their widows. These veterans

 

had served
in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania units. This

 

volume was
kept by a NewJersey agent in constant correspondence

 

with Gen.
John Charles Black (1839-1915), who was appointed

 

commissioner
of pensions by Grover Cleveland in 1885.

 

 

 

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