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    "localId": "467258910",
    "label": "Records Concerning the Pension of Charles Seavey, 31st and 32nd Maine Infantry Regiments, and 19th Kansas Cavalry Regiment",
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    "id": "467258910",
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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"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Maine",
        "Kansas",
        "Military service records",
        "Military records",
        "American Civil War, 1861-1865",
        "Military service, Voluntary"
    ],
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    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/467258910",
    "naId": 467258910,
    "arrangement": "Arranged by date of record.",
    "coverageEndDate": {
        "logicalDate": "1915-01-01",
        "year": 1915
    },
    "coverageStartDate": {
        "logicalDate": "1889-01-01",
        "year": 1889
    },
    "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": "That section forty seven hundred and forty-five, title fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States is\nhereby amended to read as follows:\nSEC. 4745.- Amy pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension\nwhich has been, or may hereafter be, granted, shall be void and of no effect, and any person whoshall pledge, or\nreceive as apledge, mortgage, sale, assignment or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension, or pension\ncertificate which has been, or may hereafter be granted or issued, or who shall hold the same as collateralsecurity\nfor any debt, or promise, or upon any pretext of such security, or promise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon\nconviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution; and any\nperson who shall retain the certificate of a pensioner and refuse to surrender the same upon the demand of the Com-\nmissioner of Pensions, or a United States pension agent, or any other person, authorized by the Commissioner of Pen-\nsions, or the pensioner, to receive the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be\nfined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution.\nApproved February 28, 1883."
}