Civil War Pension Index Cards
One of the defining events in American history, the Civil War
involved millions of men who served the United States and the Confederate
States. Millions of these men, or their dependents, applied for pension support
from the federal government. These application cards (for Federal, not
Confederate pensions) were indexed by the Pension Office and kept by the
National Archives.
An excerpt from news paper article in The Sentinel-Record, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas,
Sunday Morning January 10, 1932 Page Three PEACE AT THE END OF THE ROAD TO COUPLE ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY
...Civil War Veteran
Mr. (David) Masons proudest boasts is that he fought with the northern forces during the Civil was; next to that, he is proud that he was a farmer until he was 80 years old. On these subjects, Mr. Mason said: "Yes, there were some great battles. But war is gone forever, now, and I am glad of it." "I was a farmer until I was 80 years old. And if I could work, I'd be on the farm now." Mr. Mason was with Company F,
42nd Indiana Regiment. As far as he knows, he said, he is one of two yet living out of the company of 130. Lookout Mountain, Battle of Chickamauga; Stone River; Missionary Ridge, and with Sherman from Atlanta to the Sea-all these and more,
can Mr. Mason re-live in memory. "It was at Stone River," he said, "that a bullet tore through my brothers
(Asa Mason) right foot, and that same bullet took a nick out of my right ear. We were lying on the scrimmage line, just before going into battle. That bullet put my brother out of the war and crippled him for life, but I went through unscathed, except for that nick in the ear." My brother is now dead. In fact, Mr. Mason is the only one of a family of eleven yet living, and Mrs. Mason, formerly Ellen Deter, is the only one yet living of a family of ten. They were born and reared in adjoining counties in Indiana. They met after the war was over, and were married at Spurgeon, Indiana, January 14, 1867.
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