Anthony Williams, Company L

Unable to work because of a gunshot wound to the foot, the veteran’s application based on invalid status was approved.

Invalid – 1,028, 945 / 785,758

Claimant’s Affidavit, Anthony Williams, 20 November 1891
56 years old; residence, Cartwrights, Nansemond County, Virginia
“was wounded in the left foot … it was at Chickahominy … unable to earn a living [illegible] by hard labor … Witness: Thomas Holland, Exum White“

Letter from Chas. Gary, Cartwrights Wharf, Nansemond County, Virginia to S.L. Wilson, U.S. Pension Agt., Washington, DC, 4 December 1895
“I endorse to you Mr. Anthony Williams pension papers unsigned as he died Oct 8, 1895. Mr. Williams lived with me at time of his death and had been for several years and I write to let you know the facts in the case and on yesterday in looking over his papers I found this one and thought it ought to be returned and do so at once.”