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Declaration of a pension for an invalid, 1897
Source
Approved US Civil War Pension File for Drummer Charles W. Gale, Company A, 33rd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (SC-680251), 1897.
Transcript
Transcript of handwritten paragraph
Lost the sight of his left eye was in his tent with Sergt. Poole and other commander that the Sergeant was cleaning his gun after he got through he snapped a cap a piece of which flew into my left eye destroying the sight then and there. That by sympathetic inflammation the sight of the right eye became affected so that for the last ten years I have been totally blind.
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