Military Pension Files for Sergeant James H. Jackson, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. D & 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. B. Special Examination by E.B. Olmsted. Deposition A of James H. Jackson. p. 6

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the Grand Army and wanted to apply for pension and got someone to write to Boston Massachusetts to get a "duplicate" from my discharge and was sent this here paper which I show you (TBD certificate of service - from Adjutant General of Massachusetts, above referrered to. E.B.O.)

When I got this "duplicate" was the first time

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only clap and pock.

My father and mother always called me "Jim Jackson" and I was always called "Jim Jackson" by every one up to the time I went in the army. I never was known by any other name and never called by any other name only "Jim Jackson" before I went in the army and I was always called Jim Jackson in the army - I am pensioned as James H. Jackson but I do not know anything about how that H got in my name. I never gave my name as James H. Jackson when I enlisted. I never knew I was on the army rolls as James H. Jackson until I came to apply for pension. I was mustered out of the army at Mt. Pleasant South Carolina and we were brought back to Boston Massachusetts to be discharged. I was given a discharge but lost it. While I was in Toledo Ohio I wanted to go

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helping pull it out I was ruptured. In the fight at Honey Hill I was wounded in palm of my right hand and left hip - got both wounds at the same time. After the fight I was sent to the Hospital at Beaufort South Carolina and was in that Hospital about two weeks. My Regiment was laying around there - not far away - and when I came out of hospital - I reported back to my Company. It was after I came back from the Hospital when I was ruptured but I never went to Hospital again. That was the only time I was in any hospital, was right after the battle of Honey Hill, at Beaufort South Carolina Hospital for my wounds - I was never in any Hospital for any sickness. I had no sickness in the army

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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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