Jams
03-04-2007, 01:06 PM
While some of my family members were researching our genealogy records, they ran across the original court documents of our Great-Great Grandfather and his petition for a veterans pension of $32.20 per annum.
It is an interesting read especially if you are familiar with some of the history and areas where this all took place.
It is also interesting in light of the current news about problems with the VA and the Walter Reed Hospital and about the poor way we treat our veterans has plenty of history behind it.
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That sometime in the month of December 1780, he
again joined his said company who were rendezvoused
at Morgantown. That it was as early as the 15th of
December this applicant is satisfied but cannot say
certainly the precise day of month. That they were
marched under the command of a brother of their former
Colonel as applicant believes, across the South fork
of the Catawba river and from thence after some
delay the cause of which applicant does not now
know to a stream he thinks was called Paccollett,
where they encamped with the army commanded
by General Morgan.
From here they were marched to the Cowpens where
they had another battle with the British. That at this
place he recollects to have seen Colonel Washington.
That here again they were compelled to retreat and this
applicant was then charged on by a British Dragoon
and struck on the head with his sword and left on the
ground for dead. That after the battle he was
taken to one Sannderer's.
That his ribs were broken loose from his back as he
supposes by the horse of the Dragoon aforesaid. That
other wounded persons were also kept at the same
house. That he remained here unable to get home till
the first of March following, when applicant
returned home.
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http://genealogy2.com/revwar/3revwar.html
It is an interesting read especially if you are familiar with some of the history and areas where this all took place.
It is also interesting in light of the current news about problems with the VA and the Walter Reed Hospital and about the poor way we treat our veterans has plenty of history behind it.
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That sometime in the month of December 1780, he
again joined his said company who were rendezvoused
at Morgantown. That it was as early as the 15th of
December this applicant is satisfied but cannot say
certainly the precise day of month. That they were
marched under the command of a brother of their former
Colonel as applicant believes, across the South fork
of the Catawba river and from thence after some
delay the cause of which applicant does not now
know to a stream he thinks was called Paccollett,
where they encamped with the army commanded
by General Morgan.
From here they were marched to the Cowpens where
they had another battle with the British. That at this
place he recollects to have seen Colonel Washington.
That here again they were compelled to retreat and this
applicant was then charged on by a British Dragoon
and struck on the head with his sword and left on the
ground for dead. That after the battle he was
taken to one Sannderer's.
That his ribs were broken loose from his back as he
supposes by the horse of the Dragoon aforesaid. That
other wounded persons were also kept at the same
house. That he remained here unable to get home till
the first of March following, when applicant
returned home.
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http://genealogy2.com/revwar/3revwar.html