CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - Abstract out of Caius C Lord's Civil War Pension File ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by greg@eskimo.com http://www.eskimo.com/~greg April 24, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Caius C Lord's Civil War Pension File. He was in the 29th Inf. Born and lived in Clev. until a1870. Immediately after the War closed, I went to work at my trade (shoemaking) in the village of Brighton Lorain Co. Ohio. Streets not named houses not numbered. I remained in Brighton until the later part of 1866 when I bought an interest in the Eagle Loundry & Machine Shop, Front St. Cleveland Ohio & moved my family to Laurel St. about half way between Kinsman (now Woodland Av) & Scovill St. I forget the number. In 1870 my wife died & I boarded with my father Hugh Lord 52 Woodland Av. During this year 1870 I came to Kansas locating first at Midina (here I resumed my trade of shoemaking) in this County (Jefferson) no streets named or houses numbered. In Jan 1871 I moved to this place then known as Grasshopper Falls, I have remained here ever since engaged in the shoe business. Boarding first at the hotels & after my second marriage living first on Oak St. then on Maple & for the last six years on Fraziers Av. No houses numbered. I am well known to every businessman in this city. The history of the origin of my disability is as follows. When we moved from Acquia Creek for Chancelorsville (--------page ripped--------------------) morning of the first days fighting at Chancelorsville while our Regiment (the 29th OVI) was supporting a Battery or rather laying on our faces lack of a Battery a Confederate Battery to our left sent a shell which burst over Co. I. Part of this shell took most of the back out of my overcoat & cut the shoulder strap to my cartridge box wounding the man next to me (I forgot his name) but not hurting me but little. The effect of this was to throw the whole weight of the box around my waist during the hard march through the mud back to Acquia Creek from Chancelorsville I felt a good deal of pain in my groin & on my arrival at Acquia Creek I found a lump there about the size of a small wallnut. This I showed to my two tent mates James (F?) Walsh & Charles Gove. Soon after I was taken sick (with chill fever I think) I did very little duty was sent to the hospital at Fredrick, MD on the march to Gettisburg & did not rejoin my Regiment until they were in Wauhatchie Valley near Chatanooga here on the 22nd of Dec 63 I reinlisted as a Vetran Volunteer. During the time I was in the hospital & in Camp at Wauhalchie I felt no pain from the rupture the swelling had disappeared. I felt no more of it until Sherman's March to Atlanta. During this march & also on the march North from there to Savannah & there to Washington. Whenever I got very tiered it would pain me & I would put my left hand down in my pocket & press the part to relieve it, but at no time was I disabled from duty by it. & I never reported it to the surgeon. Soon after the War it began to trouble me, more especially in Cleveland where I had a long walk from my place of business to my residence. On the advice of my father I bought a truss but did not use it very much as I never seemed to need it unless I got quite tired or had a long walk. But I seemed to need it more each year than I did the year before. In the later part of 1871 or first part 72 I had to wear it all the time & the truss I had seemed to chafe me a great deal. I asked the advice of Dr. JB Gish (since deed) who advised me to change my truss. He procured a new one for me of Henry Coy of this place who has supplied me with trusses ever since I was never treated by any doctor except (__page cut off__) As to the amount of (-----) would say that for (---) it did not amount (-----) seems to get worse each year (---) a stronger spring & this makes the truss hurt & chafe worse especially in hot weather. In the past four years I think I have been confined to the house each year about a month. The sport the truss bears on getting so sore I have to take it off & remain in a recumbert position until it gets well. I can not left anything heavy or walk very far at one time. I was never examined by any Doctor JB Gish in 71 & the government surgeons in Topeka in 86. I don't know of anybody that ever saw the rupture except these parties, C (F?) Gove, James A Walsh, & perhaps my wife. My brother Thomas C Lord knows of it in a general way having heard me speak of it ever since 65. I forgot the name of the first drugest I bought a truss of but think it was called the Lion Pharmacy Ontario St. Cleveland Ohio. Henry A Coy Drugest of this place has supplied me with trusses for the past sixteen years. This I believe is the only information I can give you. Respectfully Yours, Caius C Lord Valley Falls, Kansas. March 8th 1887 --