CIVIL WAR PENSION: Charles W. Curry, 1862, Blair County, PA

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Note: The unreadable words are due to the copy made by the National Archives not 
being wide enough to capture those words:

State of Pennsylvania }          (Invalid Army Pension) 
County of Blair       }ss.        on this fifth day of December A.D.
                                  one thousand, eight hundred sixty two
                                  personally appeared Charles W. Curry
                                  within and for the County of Blair
                                  aged twenty eight years

Blair County in the State of Pennsylvania
sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Charles W Curry 
who enlisted in the service of the United States at Frankstown County
on the fifth day of September in the year eight hundred sixty two
3rd Sergeant in Company "C" commanded by Captain B. ? (unreadable)
in the eighty fourth regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in ? (unreadable)
and was honorably discharged on the fourteenth day of October in the year 1862.  
That while in the service aforesaid, and in the ? (unreadable) received a 
gunshot wound in his shoulder - and a contusion in his knee by a piece of shell 
- at the battle of Winchester Virginia on the 23rd day of March 1862 - and has 
since leaving the service resided in Blair County - not able to (unreadable)
                                                 Charles W. Curry

ALSO personally appeared Saml S. Barr and John  Lingafelt
residents of Blair County  Penna - persons whom I certify
and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say they were present 
and sign his name to the foregoing declaration; and they feel and
have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant, and their 
acquaintance that he is the identical person he represents himself to be; and 
they further state, (unreadable) in the prosecution of this claim.
                                                                                   
Saml S Barr
                                                                                   
John Lingafelt

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this Fifth day of December
and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the 
pension.
                                                                                  
AS Morris
                                                                                  
Chief C. (unreadable)

I hereby authorize Thad Banks of Blair County 
my Agent and Attorney in fact, to present the foregoing claim, and to receive in 
my name and stead, the money, certificate, or warrant payable under it.
Charles S Barr }                                                                           
Charles W Curry

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SERGT.                        This stone is at the foot of his grave.
CHAS. M. [W.] CURRY           The Widow's Application by Nancy J. 
CO.  C                        shows the "M" was a typographical
84.  PA.  INF.                error by the clerk that filled out his
                              enlistment papers.                          

From:  "The Gallant Eighty-fourth," Altoona Tribune Coverage of the Civil War, 
1862, Hollidaysburg, PA: Blair County Genealogical Society, 2003, page 24.

Lieut. O'Neill (Capt. Crissman's Company,) took twenty-two men into 
battle, and brought out four. Wm. Hileman, who was seriously wounded, 
managed, with great pain, to get upon his side, and fired seven rounds 
at the enemy, resting his rifle upon a rail, and each ball found its 
rebel victim. Charles Curry, of the same company, also did the same 
thing. Severely wounded and unable to stand, he lay upon the ground and 
fired twenty-five rounds at the foe, with what success we have not 
heard.

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