Macoupin County IL Pinckney D. Gooch Civil War Pension Application
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Found at the Macoupin Co., IL Archives among criminal packets (where it did not belong): Papers dated 18 May 1885, relating to Invalid Pension Application No. 307,841 of Pinckney D. Gooch, Co. G., 150th Regt., Illinois Infantry. They are from the Department of the Interior, Pension Office, and signed by John C. Black and Wm. W. Dudley, and witnessed by J. W. McNeill, Carlinville, IL.

The first paper states Gooch failed to complete paragraphs 4 and 5 of his Application, dealing with, respectively, names or numbers and localities of all hospitals in which he was treated and his post office address. There are pencilled additions which seem to relate to the requested information: "was treated at Dalton, Atlanta" and a third location which looks to be "Sprngplace" followed by the words "Don't know who --- (illegible)".

The second paper requests an affidavit of a Commissioned officer or first sergeant of the claimant's company to set forth when, where and under what circumstances the alleged lung disease was controlled, and includes in pencil "Do not know where they are". It further requests an affidavit of the surgeon , "of" (or) assistant surgeon, of claimant's regiment as to treatment for lung disease while in the service, and includes in pencil "Detached - the Regiment left".

The third paper requests the testimony of physicians who have attended Gooch since the date of his discharge from the service including the history and degree of disability from alleged rheumatism and lung disease, especially the physician who first attended the claimant after his discharge, and includes in pencil "Wm. Rice, M.D."

It is hoped that Mr. Gooch had a formal answer prepared and filed, but that could be learned only by ordering his pension papers from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. These Gooch papers will be stored in acid-free Document Box No. 1, Folder 4, at the Archives.



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