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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