PATRICK TIERNAN CIVIL WAR PENSION, ALBANY, ALBANY COUNTY, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 2000 by Maureen Graves Anderson (anderson@sacoriver.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 *********************************************************************** On this Eighteenth day of February, 1862, personally appeared before me, Judge of the County of Albany and state aforesaid Catherine Tiernan, a resident of the city of Albany and fifty years who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the widow of Patrick Tiernan who enlisted in the service of the United States on the 5th day of October 1861 as a private in Company G, Forty-third Regiment New York Volunteers, said Company was commanded by Capt. Matthews the Regiment by Col. Vinton. That while with his Regiment he was taken sick and died at the Georgetown Hospital. That his disease was said by the surgeon of the Regiment to be Dropsy of the chest. The surgeon's certificate with Captains is on file in the War Department. His death took place on the twenty first day of January 1862. The deponent further declares that she was married to the said Patrick Tiernan in September 1827 in the Parish of Temple Michael, County of Longford, Ireland. She has two sons, Patrick and John Tiernan now in the United States service and five children at home, vis Thomas, Charles, Daniel, Kate and Julia Tiernan. The said Charles and Daniel being under sixteen years of age. That the deponent has not married again, and claims the Pension to which she is entitled as the widow of the said Patrick Tiernan, deceased. Catherine Tiernan, her mark Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of February 1862, George Wolford, Albany County Judge