MILITARY: Civil War Pension: Alexander McNALLEY/McNALLY (1880); Palo Alto Co., IA Contributed by: Cathy Joynt Labath < labaths@att.net > ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** NOTE: For more information on Palo Alto County, Iowa Please visit the Palo Alto County, IAGenWeb page at http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/index.htm *********************************************************************** Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Alexander McNalley [McNally] Rockford, Iowa 329636 Aug 12, 1915 1. Date and place of birth? Answer: May 15th 1847 Jefferson Co, Wis The name of organizations in which you served? Answer 17th Wis Co D Army of Tenn. 2. What was your post office at enlistment? Answer Water Town, Wis. 3. State your wife’s full name and her maiden name. Answer Marry Etta Gray McNally 4. When, where, and by whom were you married? Answer 22nd Aug 1878 Mason City Iowa H.W. Bennett, Elder M.E. Church 5. Is there any official or church record of your marriage? Yes. If so where? Answer Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co, Iowa 6. Were you previously married? Answer No, Never married before. 7. Present wife married before…….? Answer No, never married before 8. Are you now living with your wife, or has there been a separation? Answer, Yes still living with 1st 9. State the names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead. Answer Jan 19 1879 Thomas Franklin McNally Jan 3 1881 Robert McNally Feb 8 1883 Alexander McNally Sept 11, 1887 William McNally April 3, 1890 Edward D McNally Date Aug 9th 1915 (signature) Alexander McNally by T.F. M. Declaration for an Original Invalid Pension State of Iowa, County of Palo Alto On this 22nd day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty personally appeared before me clerk of the District Court of Record within and for the county and State aforesaid Alexander McNalley aged 33 years, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Alexander McNalley who was enrolled on the 30th day of March 1864 company “D” of the 17th regiment of Wis Vol Infantry commanded by Col. Moloy(?) …discharged at Louisville, Ky on the 14th day of July 1865 that his personal description is as follows: Age, 33 years; height 5 feet 7 inches; complexion fair; hair, black; eyes black. That while a member of the organization aforesaid in the service and in the line of his duty at near Atlanta in the state of Georgia on or about the 22nd day of July 1864 he was diseased with some kind of fever which settled in his left side and left shoulder and ever since that time he has been diseased with heart disease and rheumatism in the left side and left shoulder and left arm and frequently over his entire body so that he has not been able to obtain his subsistence by normal labor at any time since his discharge to our said service. And has not been able to perform normal labor on account of said disability. That he was treated in hospitals as follows: In hospital in the field ??? Hospital near Atlanta Georgia in July and August 1864 and at Rome Georgia in August and September 1864. That since leaving the service this applicant has resided in the counties of Jefferson and Waukesha in the State of Wisconsin and in Palo Alto and Cerro Gordo Counties in Iowa and his occupation has been that of lived on a farm but not able to follow any occupation.. That prior to entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound physical health, being when enrolled a farmer. That he is now totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor, by reason of his injuries, above described received in the service of the United States; and he therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States. He hereby appoints with full power of substitution and revocation Curtis, Earle & Burdett of Washington D.C. his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim. That he has not received nor heretofore applied for a pension; that his residence is No. Owens Twp, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa and that his post office address is: Rockford, Floyd County, Iowa. (Signature of Claimant) Alexander McNalley War Department Adjuntant General’s Office Washington, Dec 2, 1882 Respectfully returned to the Commissioner of Pensions Alexander McNalley, a pvt of Company D, 17th Regiment Wis Volunteers, was enrolled on the 30 day of March, 1864 at Watertown and is reported on roll for July and Aug ’64, absent Without remarks (Roles from Jan 1-64 to June 30-64 not on file) Return for July ’64, “absent sick”. Role for Sept and Oct 64 not on file. Nov and Dec ’64 present. Same to April 30-65. Role for May and June ’65, not on file. Mustered out with Co. July 14-65. Company Morning Reports July 7th 1864 show him sent to Hospital 3rd Div 17th Al, Sept 16th 1864 returned to Company. The recorder of this office do not show disabilities alleged. Nature of sickness not stated. Regimental Hospital Records not on file. Signed M Barber Assistant Adjutant General Several other affidavits contained in file-mostly by Drs.attesting to his disability. [Alexander McNally was my great granduncle. He was brother of Edward McNally, my great grandfather]