Military Pension Files for Sergeant James H. Jackson, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. D & 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. B. Special Examination by Charles Fairbanks. Deposition A of James H. Jackson. p. 9

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and Mt. Pleasant and James Island.

Question: I don't find any of

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Last week I went to the Court House in Detroit Michigan for aid. - "To the soldiers aid man." - and he looked at my papers and told me I belonged in Boston Massachusetts; and so my wife and I came TBD here and arrived here a week ago to day - and when I applied for State aid, the doubted my papers and sent for you.

I have heard this statement read so far - and you misunderstood me. Where you have written "Company B" 54 Regiment It should be Company "D" It was Company D I served in.

That is right, Company "D."

Where did your Company and Regiment do duty? i.e. where were they stationed?

We went from Boston Massachusetts to Jacksonville Florida and TBD "Folly Island" near Charleston

See also Special Examination Index

National Archives Catalog #300020. "Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Veterans of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, compiled 1861 - 1934."

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