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Title: 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. 10
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Where: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
When: 22 Jun 1905
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Transcription:
the comrades named by you on the rolls of the Adjutant General report for Massachusetts. How do you account for that?
I cannot account for it.
Question: Are you sure that you service in Company "D" 54 Massachusetts?
Answer: I am fully sure of it.
Describe yourself at time of enlistment.
23 years of age. Born in Spruce Canada. Complexion Black. Eyes Yellow Black. 5ft 8 or 10 inches high. No marks or scars on person.
Could you write?
No sir. I never learned to read or write.
Then you could not have served as First Sergeant.
Oh no sir. I was a private.
No sir, I never knew any other James H. Jackson than myself.
--(cont'd on p. 11)--
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