George Martin

DECLARATION FOR ORIGINAL INVALID PENSION.

State of New York
County of __________

On this _______ day of ______________ 187___ personally appeared before the
__________ CLERK OF _________________ COURT, a duly authorized officer
of a Court of Record in the County and State aforesaid ______________________
who being duly sworn according to law, declares:--That he is the identical person
who enlisted under the name the aforesaid in the military service of the United States
at ____________ on the _______ day of _______________ in Company ______
of the ______________ Regiment _____________in the war of 1861 and was
honorably discharged on the __________ day of ____________.

That while in the service aforesaid and in the line of duty, he

"was wounded in the right thigh about midway between the knee and hip, at the battle
of Gettysburg, Pa, on July 2d 1862, the ball entered in front, towards the outside of the
leg and passed straight through from front to rear. He was treated for two or three days
in West Building Hospital, Baltimore, Md, was then furloughed for thirty days, and the
furlough was extended for five days by the Medical Director at New York Dept. At the
time of this wounding he was Captain of the above company."

That he had not been employed in the Military or Naval Services of the United States,
otherwise as above stated.

He has never signed or applied for pension, for which he now applies under Act of Congress
approved July 14th, 1862, and amendments, by reason of disability above stated.

He herby constitutes and appoints __________________ No. 111 Nassau Street, New York,
his Attorney to prosecute.

Captain Thomas Cummings of the 82nd Regiment. Enlisted May 21, 1861, Discharged
June 2, 1864
"Many veterans have such details of their wounds recorded in the National Archives in Washington.
[Bertram Hawthorne Groene, Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor, Ballantine Books, New York, 1973, p. 29]