TO BE EXECUTED BEFORE A COURT OF RECORD OR SOME OFFICER THEREOF HAVING CUSTOGY OF ITS SEAL

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record within and for the County and State aforesaid,

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day

of September 186.5, that his personal doseription is as follows: Age, years; height
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eyes............

That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of his duty at ity rema
ak Comedy in the State of
of infig day
1865, he was taken with whills & fever and

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a general prostration of the herous system, which has left

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two

um will disease of the head, Catarrah, dis ase in one ove producing partial bindness, and bustial paralysis of the Linole System. He believes the origin of his disability tras fom discase Contracted at New Bern NC. While serving in a former enlistment from Frovember 1962 to May 1863 when That he was treated in Bospitals as follows: first attacks first culistment at Regth Hospital New Berne M. C. and Stanton Hospital Afb, and in my last enlistment was treated in Regimental Hospital Hey Va,

been employed in the military or naval serviso otherwise than as stated above.aving
and served in Co" "C"

inlisted as a Substitute for Robb, Bam

Use survice was, whether prior of sales to a stated by, and the date at which it began rude.

126 Regt Perma, Militia. Serge from 1861 1 / 63. In my

and Inletient I was a substitute for President
That since leaving the service this applicaut bas resided in the

That prior to his entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound, physical health, being when
enrolled
.........disabled from obtaining his subsistence by
manual labor by reason of bis injuries, above described, feceived in the service of the United States; and he there
fore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invand pension roll of the United States.

Me hereby appoints, with full power of substitution and reveration, Wiiloga
textington dismich of Cematin..

PENSION DECLARATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S "REPRESENTATIVE RECRUIT"

In this declaration made out by John S. Staples in 1882, he erroneously states that "In my second enlistment I was a substitute for President Lincoln." As a patriotic gesture Lincoln had hired Staples as a "representative recruit"; Lincoln, as Commander in Chief of the Army, had no need of a substitute. The document was received by The National Archives from the Veterans' Administration.

The telegram is from Fitzhugh Lee, Consul General at Havana, and reports the sinking of the Maine on February 15, 1898. The photograph is an enlargement from a motion picture made in 1912. It shows the hull of the Maine, which had been raised from Havana harbor, being pushed past Morro Castle, at the entrance of the harbor, on the way to its final resting place in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Archives received the original telegram from the Department of State and the motion picture from the War Department.

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THE END OF THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY

A page from the steam log of the U. S. S. Olympia, flagship of Commodore George Dewey, on which is recorded the destruction of the Spanish fleet and the silencing of shore batteries on May 1, 1898. The log was received by The National Archives from the Navy Department.

THE PRESIDENT TAKES PART IN THE PREPAREDNESS PARADE.

At 9:30 today the President took part in the great parade
for national preparedness, which had been organized during
the preceding week. The President suggested to the Committee
in charge of the parade that he would not only take part in
the parade, but that he would join in the march on foot from
the Peace Vonument to the White House, to demonstrate in the
most forcible and democratic manner possible his thorough
sympathy with its purpose. He left the White House a few
minutes before the appointed hour and arrived at the Peace
Monument promptly at 9:30, at which time the parade started.
He was received by the committee of citizens in charge of
the ceremonies, consisting of ir. William Jude, Mr. Rudelph
Kaufman and Br. Columbus, by each of whom he was escorted
from the Fence Monument to the stand in front of the shite
House. Te was also accompanied by his secretary, r. J. P.
Tumulty and his tilitary Aide, Colonel Harts. The President
was greeted with cheers along the entire line of arch, his
progress being marked by the large aemonstration of approval
so plainly given.

Upon arriving at the reviewing stand in front of the
White House he left the procession with those who were escort-
ing him and reviewed the remainder of the parade, accompanied

PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE PREPAREDNESS DAY PARADE

A page from the record of the President's official day, kept by the military aide at the White House, which recounts President Wilson's participation in the Preparedness Day parade on June 14, 1916. The volumes containing this record were received by The National Archives from the Department of the Interior.

POSTERS OF THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION

The originals of these posters, which measure about 20 by 30 inches, are among dozens of similar posters in the files of the United States Food Administration preserved in The National Archives.

RATIFICATION OF THE KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT

This photograph, which is enlarged from a motion-picture film, shows President Coolidge about to ratify the pact "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy" on January 17, 1929. Seated are Vice President Dawes, President Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, and Secretary of War Davis. Among those standing are Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Borah, Gillett, Swanson, Bingham, Walsh of Montana, and Curtis. An official of the State Department leans over the President's shoulder. The film was received by The National Archives from the Department of Agriculture.