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Heroes in the Family - Fight for War Pensions (Paperback)
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Heroes in the Family - Fight for War Pensions (Paperback)
Series: Revolutionary War Soldiers, 1
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Heroes in the Family Fight for War Pensions contains remarkable
biographical stories about Revolutionary War soldiers who fought in
the war and who, after the war, had to fight to obtain the war
pensions they deserved. All of these soldiers are ancestors or
relatives of Amherst Douglas Wait, a Civil War soldier, who was in
the cavalry on Sibley's Expedition as they chased the Indians out
of Minnesota and across the Dakota Territory. The ancestors in
these biographical stories include Gardner Wait who was one of the
sentinels at the Bennington Meeting House the night the British and
Hessian prisoners attempted to escape; Henry Fillmore who was only
in the service six weeks before he was wounded at the Battle of
Monmouth; Cyrus Fillmore who was on General Sullivan's Expedition
to stop the Indian attacks in the northern part of New York State;
Doctor Eliphalet Downer who killed a British soldier immediately
after the Battle of Concord; Henry Scott who was only a teenager
when he hid in the fort during the Cherry Valley Massacre; Stephen
Van Tassel who survived imprisonment at the Liberty Street Sugar
House; Simeon Rowley who struggled to keep possession of his land
after the rich and powerful John Van Rensselaer died; Colonel Simon
T. Rowley who committed suicide after the war; Phebe Purdy Adsit
Reynolds, widow of Samuel Adsit, who tried to deceive the Pension
Department to obtain James Reynolds' pension benefits; John Kenyon
who was caught in the terrible rush for the boats during the
American retreat from the Battle of Rhode Island; Benjamin June who
served under Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema at Harlem Heights when
Ritzema deserted to the British; Shubael Newman, Silas June and
Abner June who belonged to one of the last units that retreated
from New York City with General Washington; Israel June and Isaac
Briggs who saw action at the Battle of Assunpink Creek and the
Battle of Princeton; and, finally, Reuben June who was a member of
the Stamford Guards. The soldiers all fought for America; however,
when they were old and destitute they found they also had to
struggle with the War Department to obtain their war pensions.
James L. Edwards who was in charge of the Pension Office of the War
Department required that the soldiers prove their service time even
though many of them had not received official discharge papers.
Some of the soldiers' battles with the War Department lasted for
over a decade, but the soldiers did not give up during this their
latest fight.
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