Found at the Macoupin Co., IL
Archives among criminal packets (where it did not belong): Papers dated 18
May 1885, relating to Invalid Pension Application No. 307,841 of Pinckney D.
Gooch, Co. G., 150th Regt., Illinois Infantry. They are from the Department
of the Interior, Pension Office, and signed by John C. Black and Wm. W.
Dudley, and witnessed by J. W. McNeill, Carlinville, IL.
The first
paper states Gooch failed to complete paragraphs 4 and 5 of his Application,
dealing with, respectively, names or numbers and localities of all hospitals
in which he was treated and his post office address. There are pencilled
additions which seem to relate to the requested information: "was treated at
Dalton, Atlanta" and a third location which looks to be "Sprngplace"
followed by the words "Don't know who --- (illegible)."
The second
paper requests an affidavit of a Commissioned officer or first sergeant of
the claimant's company to set forth when, where and under what circumstances
the alleged lung disease was controlled, and includes in pencil "Do not know
where they are". It further requests an affidavit of the surgeon , "of" (or)
assistant surgeon, of claimant's regiment as to treatment for lung disease
while in the service, and includes in pencil "Detached - the Regiment left."
The third paper requests the testimony of physicians who have attended
Gooch since the date of his discharge from the service including the history
and degree of disability from alleged rheumatism and lung disease,
especially the physician who first attended the claimant after his
discharge, and includes in pencil "Wm. Rice, M.D."
It is hoped that
Mr. Gooch had a formal answer prepared and filed, but that could be learned
only by ordering his pension papers from the National Archives in
Washington, D.C. These Gooch papers will be stored in acid-free Document Box
No. 1, Folder 4, at the Archives.
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