Dooly County GaArchives Photo document.....James Mitchell Altman Invalid Pension Application 
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This is the Invalid Pension that James Mitchell Altman filed on February 23rd, 
1887 for his service in the Indian Wars of 1836. Mitchell enlisted in Captain 
Jesse Smith's Regiment of the Georgia Infantry on October 15th, 1835. He was 
given an honorable discharge in Columbus, Ga on August 1st, 1836. At the time 
of his Invalid Pension application Mitchell was 71 years old and he was living 
in the 6th District of Dooly County. His application states that on June 15th, 
1836 while building breast works out of pine trees one of them fell and threw 
his right arm under a log and jerked it out of place and broke it near the 
elbow and his right arm is now much shorter than the left one. 

James Mitchell Altman married Cassieann Davis and is the father of David 
Altman. 

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