Letter from Horace's physician to the Pension Office that verifies Horace's cause of death and claims that his death was a result of his war injury

Letter from Horace's physician to the Pension Office that verifies Horace's cause of death and claims that his death was a result of his war injury

Affidavit, Proof of Illness

Horace died of bowel inflammation due to an attack of colic. Thorne wrote Horace prescriptions for colic attacks over the last five or six years of his life. Horace told Thorne that he never had any colic attacks until after he recovered from the gunshot wound to his left hand. According to Thorne, the wound was the cause of the colic attacks. Stamped by the Pension Office.

Thorne

National Archives and Records Administration, Military Pension Application

Historic Blenheim Civil War Interpretive Center, City of Fairfax

4/14/1886

Rachel Abbott

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Transcription of IMG 645

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Pension Record. Transcription

IMG 591

Hastings, Minnesota