NOTE WRITTEN BY WILLIAM ORCUTT (Date unknown)

Conductor,                  Enclosed please find my credentials. I am trying to reach my home to see my children once more before I die. Will you have the kindness to pass a poor paralitic soldier who has no money, over your route & oblige..               Very respectfully,                    Wm Orcutt

WILLIAMS PENSION APPLICATION                         1 MAY 1880              CHAUTAUQUA CO., N.Y.

About the month of Sept. 1864 at Brandy Station, Va. contracted rheumatism from which I have never recovered and am greatly disabled and claim a pension Treated by Regt surgeon & in Campbell hosp, Wash D.C. & City Point, Va..

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