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All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ******************************************************************************************* Application No. A11957 To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Pensions: Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully represents, and solemnly swears, that he was enlisted at Americus, Ga. on the 6th day of July 1861 in Captain A. S. Cutts Company, of independent from the State of Georgia, and served in said Company; that while so serving and in the legitimate discharge of duty he was on the 15th or 16th day of July 1861, at the Sunday's battle at Bull Run wounded by being struck by a shell on the right breast from which wound he was ? for 8 ? and that as a direct result of said wound, he is now unable to perform manual labor; that he is not a pensioner of any other State, or of the United States; that he has resided continuously the last twenty one years in THE STATE OF FLORIDA, and respectfully makes this claim for the pension authorized by the Act approved February 16th, 1885, and amended June 7th, 1887. His X mark: U. Alexander Wright, Applicant P. O.: Jonesville County: Alachua Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of June A. D. 1888. J. C. Gardner, County Judge WE SWEAR that U. Alexander Wright, the above applicant, is personally well known to us, applicant states that he is unable to furnish the witness as requested by the affidavit but from such in paper, as ? of the facts, and believe all the statements made in above affidavit are true and occurred as represented. W. H. Prutt F. W. Polk Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of June A. D. 1888. J. A. Carlisle Clerk Circuit Court I SWEAR that I have carefully examined the above applicant, U. Alexander Wright who is to me personally well known to be the man above represented and find that he was wounded on right breast breaking the 6 & 7 ribs - about 2 inches of 6th rib was taken out entirely - he now has a depression there about 3 inches long and 3/4 of an inch deep - he suffers all the time with a severe cough resulting from an injury to lung, also suffers great pain is unable to lie on right side and is wholy [sic] unable to do manual labor resulting directly in the loss of his strength entirely and being a farmer is unable to do any of his work. T. T. Thomas, M. D. G. P. Thomas, M. D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this fifth day of June 1888. J. C. Gardner County Judge State of Florida,} County of Alachua} WE, the Board of County Commissioners of said county, do certify that we have carefully investigated the statements made in the within affidavits, and are satisfied by evidence produced before us, that the within described applicant is the veritable U. A. Wright who enlisted and served in Captain C. A. Cutts Company Independent Regiment, from the State of Ga.; that he is, by reasons of wounds received in line of duty, while so serving, rendered unfit to perform manual labor; that he is a citizen of this county, has resided in this State continuously for the last 21+ years, and that he is not receiving a pension from any other State, or from the United States. Done at Gainesville, the County Site, this 5th day of June 1888. Wm. H. Robertson, President of the Board of County Commissioners J. W. Smith L. R. Thomas A. Hagin, Jr. Attest: J. A. Carlisle Clerk ******************************************************************************************* Application For Pension By U. A. Wright Of Alachua County, Late Of A. S. Cutts' Company, Indpt. Artillery of Ga. Filed In Adjutant General's Office June 7, 1888 Allowed by Comm. of Pensions July 1/88 Pay from July 1/87 D. Lang, Adjt. Gen. ******************************************************************************************* High Springs, Fla. Oct. 28th 1889 W. D. Barnes, Compt. Gen Tallahassee, Fla. Dear Sir Your letter of 16 to hand and contents noted but as you failed to give me the information I desired I will write you again for what service did he petition that a pension be granted him? As a confederate soldier? Or as a union soldier? Did he state in his petition that he had been wounded while serving as a soldier? If so, in what part of the boddy [sic] did he state that he had been wounded. Further, by what weapons did he receive the wounds? Did the said U. A. Wright make such proof for pension by witnesses being at High Springs, Fla. if so please give names of witnesses and you will oblige me very much. Truly Yours, A. V. Wright ******************************************************************************************* High Springs, Fla. Sept. 30th 1890 D. Lang, Agt. of Pension Tallahassee, Fla. Dear Sir U. A. Wright did obtain a pension through faulse [sic] swearing or right out lying. He never was wounded in the war. There is two living witnesses here Mrs. Kizziah Wright his wife of High Springs, Fla. The other is Hendry Cannon of Fort White, Fla. If you wish you may investigate the matter the sooner you do so the better as he is trying to leave this county. Truly, A. V. Wright ******************************************************************************************* High Springs, Fla. Oct. 1, 1890 D. Lang, Ajt. Tallahassee, Fla. Dear Sir The facts which you will see in A. V. Wright's letter I think are true and I will further say that I hold a certificate given to U. A. Wright by Dr. Hawkes the physition [sic] who attended him when he was stabbed with a knife by the hands of a man named Richard Calaway and the wound which he claims to have gotten in the war is the wound which Calaway gave him. Now I would say if you wish to investigate the matter further it would be well to have the two witnesses testimony taken at once as they are both old and life is uncertain. U. A. Wright has only three wounds to the best of my knowledge or scars rather and two of them was given him by Calaway and one by a man named Thomas Knight. I think if you will have him U. A. W. examined by a physition [sic] you will find him not wounded as his papers states. If you wish I will send you a copy of the certificate from Dr. Hawkes to U. A. Wright. Any further information I can give I will do so. Yours Truly, W. W. Wright ******************************************************************************************* High Springs, Fla. Nov. 22, 1890 Governor Fleming Sir I the undersigned do in the interest of the and for the good of the State of Florida do inform you that U. A. Wright or Upson Alexander Wright are drawing of a pension under a fraud the wounds he is drawing from can prove he got before the war and since the war the one he got in the breast or breast and back as man by the name of Dick Calaway done it before the war the one in the arm he got since the war by a man by the name of Tom Knight my witness names is H. B. Cannon, K. Wright. ? Yours, John Wesley Wright High Springs, Fla.