
I have an application in for a Pension for a Wound received in action in front of Petersburgh on March the 25th 1865.
My Discharge Papers are in the Hands of John P Hunt Attorney and Counsellor at Law 247 Broadway I wish you would do
me the favor of of of
Looking up my Claim and Pushing it through for me as I
have suffered a great Deal from the wound and am still suffering from it. I have Had the Best Doctors in New York to
attend me but seem to do no good I have been sick for the Last Three months unable to do anything from cause of Wound.
I Enclose You a Certificate from Dr Corson who attended me after I was first wounded and he has recently Examined it
and I can show Certificates of Half a Dozen of the Best Doctors in the City and Staten Island Friend Whitman I Enlisted
under the Name of James W Roberts in October for one year in the 88th N.Y. Infantry Co A Colonel Denis F Burke and was
wounded in the Leg on the 25th of March in action in front of Petersburgh I wish you would
write me on Receipt of this and Let me know if you can do anything for me and if you know anything of this John P Hunt
and weather whether
he is an authorized claim agent or not and about how Long
Before my Claim will be settled by doing this favor for me you will Confer a Lasting favor
Please return this Certificate
SKW.