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Michael Belonger's
Service Pension File. |
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While in said service, and in the line of his duty as a soldier, at Culpepper
Courthouse, Va., or near there, in August or September, 1862, the command in
which he was, was cut off from communication with its base of supplies, and for
want of food & nourishment he was for several days nearly starved, by reason
of which he incurred disease of heart and rheumatic affection of the entire left
side. For this disease he was taken to Columbia College hospital in September or
October, 1862, where he remained until about the first of January, 1863. He was
removed from said Hospital to Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, Va., from which
he was discharged.
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