Pension of Charles W. Thurman, Mexican War Kentucky Submitted by: Deborah Parks [bdvw@earthlink.net] ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ To the Honorable J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions The following affidavit and certificate are respectfully submitted by Charles W. Thurman as the proof of his right to be placed on the Pension List of the United States Army and he requests that a proper Pensioners Certificate be issued in his name and addressed to the care of Albert G. Caldwell, Shawneetown, Illinois and payable at the Pension Agency nearest to Maysville Kentucky. State of Illinois, Gallatin County On the sixth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County personally appeared Charles W. Thurman who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the laws of Congress granting pensions to such soldiers as may have been wounded or otherwise disabled whilst in the actual service of the Army of the United States in the late war with Mexico. That he the said Charles W. Thurman enlisted to serve during the War with Mexico on the fourth day of June ano diem 1847 at Memphis in the State of Tennessee in Company G. commanded by Captain Scantlin in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry commanded by Col Trousdale. That he was drafted from company G to serve in Company E in the same Regiment (14) commanded by Captain Edgar Bogardis. That whilst in said service and about the month of August Anno Diem 1847 in consequence of exposure in the duties of the camp he was attacked by rheumatism in his right shoulder by which he was in a few weeks totally deprived of the use of his right arm so that he was unable to perform camp duties and continued an invalid in the hospital department until his discharge and is still wholly deprived of the use of his right arm so as not to be able to raise his hand to his head. That he continued in the service until the twenty-sixth of July Anno Domini 1848 when he was discharged at New Orleans by reason of the end of the war. That at that time he received a proper certificate of discharge but has since lost it, he knows not when or where. That it is out of his power to procure the certificate of either of the commanding officers above named as to these facts, he not knowing where the reside or are to be found. That he lives in Maysville, Kentucky and was obliged to come to this State and County to get the affidavits of two members of said Company E as to the facts connected with his discharge and disability. That he is unable by reason of the said rheumatism and subsequent loss of the use of his right arm received as above sworn, whilst in the service of the United State to obtain a subsistence by his labor and is without any other means of support having no property real or personal. Nor has he granted or disposed of any since his said disability to any person. That he is twenty-three years old and a citizen of the United States. John W. Norton Charles W. Thurman His X Mark Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written. John W. Norton State of Illinois Gallatin County On the sixth day of December A.D. 1848 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County personally appeared William G. Dillard and Hanson Roberts, both known to me as credible witnesses and being duly sworn according to law deposed and said. That they were both at different times orderly sergeants in Company E commanded by Captain Edgar Bogardis in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry commanded by Col. Trousdale. That Charles W. Thurman who has subscribed the above affidavit was a private in said company E having been drafted from Company G of the same Regiment. That he was whilst in the service of the United States disabled for Camp duty by reason of an attack of the rheumatism and subsequent loss of the use of his right arm in which disable and helpless condition he has remained from that time to this. That he was in the invalid list from about the month of August A.D. 1847 to the time of his discharge that he received a certificate of discharge at New Orleans on the twenty sixth day of July A.D. 1848 which he had since lost as he says and they believe that the commanding officers named are not in this state that they know of nor do they know where they are or how he could obtain their evidence as to the facts herein and that they are disinterested in the application of the said Charles W. Thurman for a pension. William Y. Dillard Hanson ? Roberts Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written. John W. Norton