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  Mr Walter Whitman Dear Sir

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

Yours truly Stephen K Winant 435 West 32d Street Between 9 & 10th Avenue New York City

Please return this Certificate

SKW.