Webster County IA Archives Military Records.....Barger, Abraham 1863 Civilwar - Pension Co D 16th Iowa Infantry Regiment ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net November 26, 2006, 3:07 am Civil War Pension Application Abraham Barger Residence at enlistment: Border Plains, Iowa Service Record: Enlisted as a Private in January 1862 at the age of 44 Enlisted in Company D, 16th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 28 January 1862. Received a disability discharge Company D, 16th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 30 July 1862 NOTES: Applied for a civil war pension in 1863 in Iowa --- Military Discharge Certificate July 1862 Know Ye, that Abraham Barger, a Private of Captain C.W. Wiliams' Company D, Sixteenth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers who was enrolled on the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two to serve three years, is hereby discharged from the service of the United States this thirthtieth day of July 1862 at Saint Louis, Missouri by reason of Surgeon's Certificate of Disability; Amaurosis? of Right Eye and now is affecting the left eye. Said Abraham Barger was born in Perry County in the State of Indiana, is fourty-four years of age, five feet nine inches high, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair and by occupation when enlisted, a farmer. Given at Saint Louis, Mo., this thirtieth day of July 1862. By Order of Col. Merrill, Military Commander of St. Louis. Geo. ?? Causten, Capt.? , Quincy, Illinois. ---- May 28, 1863 STATE OF IOWA, Webster County On this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, personally appeared before H. Rucker, Clerk of the District Court, within and for the county and state aforesaid, Abraham Barger, age 45 years, a resident of Washington Township in the county of Webster in the state of Iowa, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Abraham Barger who enlisted in the service of the United States at Border Plains, Webster county, Iowa on the 28th day of January in the year 1862 and was honorably discharged in July 1862; that while in the service aforesaid and in line of his duty he was disabled as follows: While lying in the Hospital at Quincy, Illinois in July 1862, his spine became affected, a sore appeared at the lower end of the spine and opend up and began to recur, which caused a great breakup and debility and was the cause of his discharge; that before his service he was an able bodied farmer; and since his discharge, he has resided in Webster county, Iowa and doing not much but little chores. He makes this declaration to obtain the benefits of the pension laws of the United States. That his occupation before he entered into service was a farmer. Signed, Abraham Barger Witness: Seth S. Clark Witness: Abraham Ingalls Also personally appeared, Abraham Ingalls and Seth S. Clark, residents of Webster county, Iowa who I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn, says that they was present and saw the said Abraham Barger sign his name in person to the aforesaid declaration and they further swear that they have every reason to believe that he is the identical person he represents himself to be. They further swear that they have been personally acquainted with the said Abraham Barger, the said Abraham Ingalls for twenty- five years and the said Seth S. Clark for six years past, and both the aforesaid witnesses having resided in the immediate neighborhood of said Border Plains during the time above stated by each, they say that before the applicant enlisted for the war, he was able bodied, and since his discharge his eyesight has not been good. Signed, Abraham Ingalls, Seth S. Clark. This twenty eight day of May 1863. ---- Apr 27, 1863 State of Iowa, Boone County On this 27th day of Apr 1863, personally appeared before Erwin Wheeler a justice of the peace in and for said county, Wm. P. Milligan, a resident of Swede Point, Boone county, Iowa, who after being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is personally acquainted with Abraham Barger who was a private in the company D, commanded by Capt. C.W. Williams in the 16th Regiment of Iowa Vol. Inft'y, of the state of Iowa in the war of 1861 for the Supression of the Rebellion in the United States and that the said deponent was a private in the same company and regiment as said Abraham Barger, and that while in the service aforesaid and at a hospital before the discharge from service, the said Abraham Barger he knows of the existence of the disease of the spine of the said Abraham Barger and that the said disease was the reason for his discharge from service. He further says that the said Abraham Barger as an able bodied man before he enlisted, that the said Abraham Barger now resides in Webster county, Iowa. Signed, William P. Milligan, this 27th day of April 1863. ---- July 30, 1890 Declaration for Pension State of Iowa, Webster County Personally appeared, Abraham Barger, aged 73 years, a resident of Washington Twp.,, county of Webster, state of Iowa, who after being duly sworn declares that he is the identical Abraham Barger who was enrolled on the 25th day of January 1862 in Co. D, 16th Regt. Ia, Vols., as a private; in the war of the rebellion, and served at least ninety days or more and was honorably discharged at Quincy, Ill, on the 25th day of July 1862; That he is wholly unable to earn a support by reason of disease of kidney and bladder and general debility from old age. That he is a pensioner under the Pension laws; that his post office address is Border Plains, county of Webster, State of Iowa. Abraham Barger, X, his mark; Witnesses: Elmer Hauck and Joseph Billings ----- March 15, 1892 State of Iowa, Webster County In the Matter of the Pension of Abraham Barger, Co. D. 16th Iowa Infantry On this 15th day of March 1892, personally appeared before A. Hall, Notary Public in and for the aforesaid county and state, J. B. Ingalls, aged 52 years, Wm. Spencer aged 68 years, residents of Webster county, Iowa, whose post office address is Lehigh, Iowa; and N.G. Roosa aged 64 years, and Jonathan Scott aged 58 years, residents of Webster Co. Iowa, whose post office address is Borden Plains, Iowa; well known to be reputable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn declares in relation to the aforesaid case, as follows: We have been acquainted with said claimant from eighteen to twenty- seven years and that during that time he has been a sufferer with his back to a greater or less extent supposed to be kidney disease and that during the whole of said time he has been blind or nearly blind in one eye and the other is affected or unsound to the extend that his eyesight is not good and has not been good since our acquaintance with him. N.G. Roosa J.B. Ingalls Wm. Spencer Jonathan Scott ----- March 31, 1891 State of Iowa, Webster County In the matter of the application for pension of Abraham Barger, Co. D. 16th Regt. Iowa Inft. On this 31st day of March 1891, personally appeared, Martin Johnson, aged 51 years, a resident of Lehigh, Webster county, Iowa, Jonathan Scott, age 57 years, N.G. Roose, age 62 years, James B. Ingalls, age 52 years, all of whose residence is Border Plains in the county of Webster, State of Iowa, well known to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being duly sworn declare in relation to the aforesaid case as follows: That they have been well and personally acquainted with Abraham Barger for 15 plus years and that he served in the United States service in Co. D. 16th Regiment, Iowa Vol. Inft. for six months in War of 1861 and that he is old and in poor health and in danger of an early death, unable to work and support himself. N.G. Roosa James B. Ingalls Jonathan Scott Martin Johnson ----- March 29, 1892 State of Iowa, County of Webster In the matter of the pension claim of Abraham Barger, late of Col D., 16th Iowa. Inft. Vols. On this 29th day of March 1892, personally appeared, Abraham Barger, aged 75 years, a resident of Washington Twp., Webster county, Iowa, well known to be reputable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn declares in relation to aforesaid case, as follows: I have been ailing since Feb. 1862 having taken cold in the poorly furnished winter quarters at Davenport, Iowa, but continued with my company until about June 1, 1862 when I was sent to the field hospital near Corinth. I remained there about 2 weeks and was then sent to the hospital at Quincy, Ill., where I was discharged July 25, 1862. I had fever in the hospital. I never heard what kind of fever the doctors called it, but one of my eyes became infected by it and also had kidney trouble and pain in back in hospital at Quincy from which I have never recovered. I had an operation performed in my eye shortly after my discharge which improved it for awhile but it soon became worse again and have been almost blind in that eye for many years. Dr. Nicholson of Ft. Dodge, Iowa began to treat me soon after my return from the Army and doctored me more or less up to the time of his death about 2 years ago. He treated my kidney and back disease. The kidney trouble with pain in back and the injury to eye began in the army during my aforesaid service and has continued ever since. Abraham Barger, X, his mark M.J. Mitchell, witness to mark. ---- June 13, 1900 State of Iowa, Webster County In the matter of claim No. 689413, Abraham Barger of Co. D., 16th Regt. of Iowa Vols. Inft. Personally appeared, Abraham Barger, aged 83 years, whose P.O. is Border Plains, county of Webster, state of Iowa, who being duly sworn, states in relation to said claim as follows: I was in the hospital at Quincy, Ill. in June, July and August in the year 1862. While lying in the hospital Dr. Wilson came through the ward I was in. I was at the time suffering from what I thought was a boil on the spine and I called him to me. He examined to and he said it was not a boil but something a great deal worse. He ordered for me clover powder and flat seed poultice. It was a running sore for two or three months. It seems to affect my spine, kidneys and bladder from which I have never fully recovered. I believe that one of the tendons was badly eaten by the sore and left my spine in a bad condition from which I have suffered all these years. Abraham Barger, X, his mark, June 13, 1900 ---- AFFIDAVIT of Almon E. Johnson July 23, 1900 State of Iowa, Webster County In the matter of the claim of Abraham Barger Personally appeared, Almon E. JOhnson, age 62 years, whose P.O. is Algona, county of Kamuth?, state of Iowa who being duly sworn, states in relation to said claim as follows: I am and have been personally acquainted with Abraham Barger from 1855 to the present date and was one of his nearest neighbors from 1855 to 1876 and that his eyes were weakened and he suffered with chronic diarrhea from August 1862 up to 1876 and that his eyes were weak and that he was troubled with kidneys, also that I was called to him to clean his recurring sore on his back or spine and the back is lame at the present time, and is condition still is very feeble. Almon E. Johnson, July 23, 1900. ----- July 30, 1900 AFFIDAVIT of Thomas B. Ingalls In the matter of the claim of Abraham Barger for pension Personally appeared, Thomas B. Ingalls, age 53 years, whose P.O. is Border Plains, county of Webster, state of Iowa, who being duly sworn states in relation to said claim as follows: I am personally acquainted with Abraham Barger and have been since the year 1854. In fact have lived a near neighbor of his during nearly all of said period of time and know that he was afflicted with chronic diarrhea from the year 1862 until the year of 1876 and that he had weak or diseased eyes from the year 1862 to 1876 and to this present time, and that he has always been troubled with kidney or spinal disease since his return from the Army in August 1862, and to the present time. I know from reports that he had a running sore on his back from someting after his return from the Army in 1862. I know further that the said Barger has not been able to perform manual labor to any extent since the year 1862 up to the present time. Thomas B. Ingalls, July 30, 1900. ----- Oct. 5, 1901 From: Bureau of Pensions, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. To: Thomas B. Ingalls, Border Plains, Webster County, Iowa In the matter of Abraham Barger, application for pension Sir, to further aid this Bureau in determining the merits of the above entitled claim of Abraham Barger, be kind enough to answer in your own handwriting the following questions, giveing more complete details than your affidavit affords. Pension Commissioner When did you first see the soldier after he returned from the Army and how do you fix the date? In August 1862 he brought home some relics from the battle of Shilo. I also had a brother in the battle. Of what disability did he then complain and how was he affected? He complained of his sore on his back and his eyes and was not able to move around much. Did he continue to suffer from said disability; if so, state how frequently you saw him and to what extent he was disabled for the performance of manual labor: I have lived near him ever since. I see him as often as once a month. He always complained of his back and was almost blind, never able to do hard work, perhaps 1/2, sometimes and none at others. Thos. B. Ingalls ----- Oct. 5, 1901 Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C. To: J.B. Ingalls, Lehigh, Webster Co. Iowa In the matter of Abraham Barger application for pension Sir, to further aid this Bureau in determining the merits of the above entitled claim of Abraham Barger, be kind enough to answer in your own handwriting the following questions, giveing more complete details than your affidavit affords. Pension Commissioner When did you first see the soldier after he returned from the Army and how do you fix the date? In the last days of 1865 from the date of my discharge which is dated July 26, 1865. Did he continue to suffer from said disability: If so, please state how frequently you sawhim, what symptoms you observed and the extent to which he was disabled for the performance of manual labor: As to how often I saw him, don't k now, suppose almost every day, as he just lived across the road from me, as to what symptoms, I saw am not sure, but he has not been fit for work much since. I cam home and for several years he was unable to do anything. James B. Ingalls November 13, 1901 In the matter of the claim of Abraham Barger application for pension Personally appeared, J.B. Ingalls, whose P.O. address is Lehigh, Iowa, county of Webster, who says: The claimant was first afflicted with diarrhea just after the battle of Shiloh, said disease being general with the whole regiment. The claimant compained to affiant at different times from the date of the battle of Shiloh until he was sent to the hospital, about the soreness of the back and the backache. In a joint affidavit with N.G. Roose, Wm. Spencer and Jonathan Scott, filed in Aug. 1892, affiant stated that he had been acquainted with the claimant since discharge, that he had been a sufferer with his back, suffered disease of kidneys and claimant had been nearly blind in one aye and other other eye badly infected. J.B. Ingalls ----- DEPOSITION of J.B. Ingalls January 30, 1902 Case of Abraham Barger, applicant for pension; case No. 689413 Lehigh, county of Webster, State of Iowa Personally appeared, J.B. Ingalls, who being duly sworn, says: I am 57 years of age and a farmer. I served as a soldier in Co. D, 16th Iowa Inft., from June 1862 to July 1865. The claimant Abraham Barger is my uncle and I have known him since childhood, and we went into the Army at the same time. I know he had troubles with his back, kidneys and eyes in the Army since we went to Corinth and that is where he left us when he was sent to the hospital in Illinois. He has suffered continuously since that time with same troubles. J.B. Ingalls ----- DEPOSITION of T.B. Ingalls Feburary 25, 1903 In the matter of the pension application of Abraham Barger, No. 689413 On this twenty-fifth of February 1903, at Border Plains, county of Webster, state of Iowa, appeared, Thomas B. Ingalls, who being duly sworn deposes and says: I am 56 years of age. Occcupation: Farmer. Residence and post office address as above. I have known Abraham Barger all of my life and have lived a near neighbor to him ever since I can remember and have seen him every few days except at such times as he was in the Army, or a few times when he has been away for a short time. He is a man now 87 years of age. I do knot know what all does ail him, but i guess he had a good deal of trouble with his bladder and kidneys. He has had trouble with his eyes, a cataract once cut off as I understand. I remember particulary when he came back from the war he was bloated up and so full of wind he could hardly get around. He had also complained of his back and had a great abscess or sore on is back that hurt him quite a while. I can't tell you the time it was. I had had so much trouble, being invalided himself but not because of any war troubles, that I have not paid much attention to his complaints of late. About all I positively remember of when he first came home from the Army. He was also troubled with his eyes at the time since he came from the Army and that he has not been able to see good. I know he has never been stout since he came home from the Army, for some time. The claimant is an uncle of mine. T.B. Ingalls ---- To the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C. Feb. 27, 1908 In the matter of the pension application of Abraham Barger To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Sir, I have the honor to return herewith your credibility inquiry pertaining to Thomas B. Ingalls, who has testified in support of the above cited claim, together with his deposition in relation thereto. I had to drive about fifteen miles to see this witness and upon arrival there found him in bed suffering considerable pain as a result of the sixth amputation performed on one of his legs. He was very willing to talk to me but in the condition he was in, it was not be be wondered at that he could not remember more than he did. I recommend that the papers be submitted for the consideration of the Chief of the Western Division of Pension Claims. F.F. Dean, Special Examiner ---- April 16, 1917 To the Chief of Finance Division Bureau of Pensions, Dept. of Interior You are hereby notified that a check for $67.50 datead April 5, 1917 for Abraham Barger, of Lehigh, Iowa, has been returned to this office by the Postmaster with the information that the pensioner died February 13, 1917, and said check has been cancelled. Guy. O. 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