The Muster Rolls of the Co C. 104th Ill Infantry
From the
Illinois State Archives

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These are documents filed in
Samuel Heslet's Civil War Pension File
at the National Archives in Washington D.C. 

Doctor's letter stating
Samuel Heslet's inability to
perform his duties in the Army

Samuel Heslet's
Resignation Letter

Acceptance of
Samuel Heslet's Resignation

Pension application for Samuel Heslet. [small print reads: received a gun shot wound of right thigh near hip joint etc...ball passing through from front to rear producing at the time partial paralysis and followed by abscesses. also at the same time and place and in the same engagement he incurred gunshot wound of left thigh. the ball entering from the front inside and lodging behind the femur. The former has produced weakness of the right leg and the later has been a - of pain and weakness is continually since and more recently - because of some change in the position of the ball has produced marked nervous and muscular - with symptoms of paralysis.
That he was treated in hospitals as follows: I was first treated three or four days in a temporary hospital in the house of a Wm Stadar at Hartsville and I was then removed to Gallatin Tenn. where I was treated in a hospital its name and number of a kind I do not know, for the period of about six weeks]

Reverse side of Pension Application

Diagram of
Samuel Heslet's wounds
from the Battle of Hartsville, Tennessee
from Army Surgeon

Questionnaire on Marriage and Children
for Pension Application

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