This soldier was in the 1st U.S. Heavy Artillery and not the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry. The correction was noted on two items in the pension application folder but the mistake hasn’t been corrected elsewhere.
Invalid — 1,116,461 / —–
Sworn Statement, William Alphine, 12 October 1892
“I hereby certify that my rupture is on the left side of my belly. I was ruptured about July 1866 in the following manner — while working on the Steamer Adelaide as a deckhand running between Baltimore and Norfolk, Virginia. I lost the first joint of the first finger of my right hand about November 1888 in the following manner — by having my hand caught in a block and tackle while working at longshore work in Charleston, South Carolina.”
A.C. McNulty, Law, Pensions, Patents, 313 W. Clinch Street, Knoxville, Tennessee [letterhead] to Southern Division, 7 December 1896
“Has claimant been heard from direct? Letters addressed to him at 15 Limehouse Street, Charleston, South Carolina, failed of delivery. Delay wholly due to the fact of my inability to secure claimant’s co-operation, I ask that my rights, as attorney of record, be regarded.”
[A handwritten note on the attorney’s letterhead reads “I 1 U S C HA.” Document was date stamped by the Pension Bureau — Leslie]
1st U.S. Colored Cavalry 