{"id":5302,"date":"2016-08-23T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:30:13","slug":"pension-files-document-military-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/23\/pension-files-document-military-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension Files Document Military Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War service and other contemporary military records may not document your ancestor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gunshots.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5303 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gunshots-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"gunshots\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gunshots-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gunshots.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>injuries as completely as you would like. After all, war time is focused on war. The military pension file may contain more documentation of your ancestor&#8217;s battle injuries. This\u00a01905 medical report indicates where the veteran&#8217;s battle scars were.<\/p>\n<p>Military pension files for Union veterans of the Civil War are housed at the National Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War service and other contemporary military records may not document your ancestor&#8217;s injuries as completely as you would like. After all, war time is focused on war. The military pension file may contain more documentation of your ancestor&#8217;s battle injuries. This\u00a01905 medical report indicates where the veteran&#8217;s battle scars were. Military pension files for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}