" to Sister Lucy Slocum Aug 30th"
1911 . " " Ward A " This is Mannings Manning Room when at Hot Abbott Springs Battle Mountain the fifth man Sanitarium I made to the left a pin mark above his while in the head . And that is his Sanitarium Wardman behind him S . D . " a young preacher from Mich he sent ... these cards " In 1879 , applying for an invalid pension from the federal government Manning Abbott writes ; in the " > imprisonment " inserted above , service and in the line of his duty at " Andersonville " in the State of " Georgia " on or about the " Month " of " June " 18 " 64 " " contracted the disease of survey which settled in the left Ancle and right shoulder , from insufficient and improper treatment and exposure to weather " Abbott , a farmer enlisted in mid 1861 in Company " C " , 21th Ohio Infantry . He was taken prisoner 20 September 1863 at the battle of Chickamauga . Confined at a number of places before his parole 4 March 1865 . A pension was approved , and enlarged in 1904 as his health declined . His support at that time two cows and ponies . He lived in Nebraska . He was admitted To the Battle Mountain Sanitarium National Home for D . V . S . 10 July 1911 . His discharge from the was 19 September 1914 , at which time he went to Rushville , Nebraska . Manning Abbott died there 20 May 1915 . A . C . Plantz , Attorney-at-Law . Rushville , Nebraska , writing to the , Commissioner of Pensions , 29 July 1915 . Dear Sir : - I am writing you herewith " Declaration for Widow's Pension " of Alcinda Abbott , widow of Manning Abbott . I would like to ask you about how long it will be before Mrs . Abbott can get this as she is anxious to know . of course . I am not in position to tell her . I will say that I would like hurry this along for her as fast as possible , for I realize that the veterans of the civil war and their widows are all getting old and passing away . My father was one of the boys and I have made it a rule never to charge an old soldier or an old soldier's widow a cent at any time for any service I render them in connection with any pension matters . Very truly yours , A.C.Plantz Print is light . Card shows use . Photographer not known .
Price: $275.00
