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    "label": "Records Concerning the Pension of Charles Seavey, 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments, and 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment",
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    "title": "Records Concerning the Pension of Charles Seavey, 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments, and 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment",
    "description": "This file unit contains records concerning the pension received by Charles Seavey (SC 865,620) due to his military service during the Civil War. He enlisted in Company B, 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment, on February 18, 1864; transferred to Company B, 31st Maine Infantry Regiment, on December 12, 1864; and mustered out of service on July 15, 1865.  He also served in Company A, 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment, from October 20, 1868, to April 8, 1869. This series includes the following items:\n(1) Official statement from Kansas Adjutant General's Office, January 11, 1889, concerning Charles Seavey's service in Company A, 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment;\n(2) Official statement from Maine Adjutant General's Office, November 11, 1889, concerning Charles Seavey's service in the 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments;\n(3) Letter from the Bureau of Pensions, February 28, 1893, of the names and addresses of selected comrades who served in Company B, 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment; \n(4) Pension Certificate of Charles Seavey, SC 865,620, for pension based on the Act of Congress of June 27, 1890;\n(5) Letter from the Maine Adjutant General's Office, December 11, 1908, about the soldiers' home at Togus, Maine;\n(6) Official statement from the Maine Adjutant General's Office, December 11, 1908, concerning Charles Seavey's service in the 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments;\n(7) Certificate of Record compiled by the Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Benevolent Society, December 7, 1912, concerning the military and personal history of Charles Seavey; and \n(8) Letter from the Bureau of Pensions, April 9, 1915, concerning an increase in pension granted to Charles Seavey based on age and service.",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/467258910",
    "collections": [
        "Santa Clara County, California Veterans Services Office Collection",
        "Records Concerning the Pension of Charles Seavey, 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments, and 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment"
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    "subjects": [
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        "Kansas",
        "Military service records",
        "Military records",
        "American Civil War, 1861-1865",
        "Military service, Voluntary"
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        "logicalDate": "1915-01-01",
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    "generalNotes": [
        "This donated collection serves as an exemplar of the types of records that many Union Civil War soldiers likely obtained to document their military service in connection with pension claims."
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    "ocrText": "2\nS\nArmy and Navy Survivors' Division.\n(3-597.)\nNo.\nName,\nCo.\nDepartment of the Interior,\nReg't\nBUREAU OF PENSIONS,\nWashington, D. C.,\nHel28 1893.\nChash\n266 Wasaka Clara SN\nRose Jape Only\nyou will please find below a list of names, together with late rank and P. O.\naddress, of the officers and comrades called for in your letter of the\n, so far as\nindicated by the records of this Office at this date.\nNAME.\nRANK.\nCO.\nREGIMENT.\nP.O. ADDRESS.\nAnys Sheatield Blogues Capt B 82 January Oxfording \" Mr \",\ngoffs Magnes\nOor Age\nH\n11\n11\nophraim # Goymard,\nJeffger A youskell\n\"\nSi\nSee\nfamily LMearry\nA\nBefording \",\n11\n\"\nn\n1.\nVery respectfully,\nGreen B Ramm\nCommissioner.\n5130 b-25 m"
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