St.Croix-Pierce County WI Archives Military Records.....Wadsworth, Horace Everett April 15, 1867
Civilwar - Pension Company D, Iowa Volunteers
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Declaration For Invalid Pension
Transcription of part of Declaration for Invalid Pension signed by Everett 
Wadsworth on April 15, 1867 in St. Croix County Wisconsin. 

"That while in said service, in the line of his duty at  Brandenburg, in the 
State of Kentucky on the 12th day of March 1865 he received the following 
wound or disability, to wit: A Gun Shot in the left leg just above the 
ankle joint while out in a scout with a Squad of fifty men we surrounded 
three leaders of a Guerrilla Band in a Tobacco House about 12 miles from 
Brandenburg aforesaid, Capt Marshall of Co.D of said 30th Regt 
who had command of the Squad ordered Mr. Matthews and this applicant 
to break open the door.  
He stept forward and so by hurling stones against it and stepped 
back & caught our guns.  
While in the act of discharging his gun a ball from a revolver in the 
hand of a guerrilla struck him causing the wound referred to.
That since leaving the service said applicant has resided at 
Kinnickinnick County of St. Croix and State of Wisconsin 
and his occupation has been Farming." 


Additional Comments:
This pension application proves that H.E. Wadsworth 
was involved in the capture of Jerome Clark also known as Sue Mundy, an 
associate of the James Gang.  Mundy was hung several days after capture.

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