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CIVIL WAR PENSIONS--Pension Documentsgggff

 

pension card

This ink-smudged registration card was used by the Pension Bureau to create a card-file record of each recipient of Civil War pension benefits. Author's collection.

 

pension certificate

Typical pension certificate when an award of a benefit was made. Author's collection.

 

front of check

back of check

Front and back of a Civil War pension payment issued in 1872. Author's collection.