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The Mountain Echo
Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas
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Capt. J. P. Grinstead and other Civil War veterans in the 21st Kansas Volunteers at Chickamauga have had their pensions stopped by the Pension Department, as passing physical exams for mustering in deems them too healthy to receive disability benefits.
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Topeka, Kan., July 26.-Capt. J. P. Grinstead of Company L, 21st Kansas Volunteers, now at Chickamauga, and ordered to Porto Rico, has been advised by the Pension Department that his pension for disabilities sustained in the Civil War has been stopped.
He has conferred with other veterans at Camp Thomas and has found that they received similar notices.
The department told them that if they were healthy enough to pass a physical examination in the mustering in of the volunteers they are too healthy to draw a pension.
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Primary Location
Chickamauga
Event Date
July 26.
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pensions stopped for capt. j. p. grinstead and other civil war veterans due to passing physical examinations for volunteer mustering.
Event Details
Capt. J. P. Grinstead of Company L, 21st Kansas Volunteers, at Chickamauga and ordered to Porto Rico, advised by Pension Department that his Civil War disability pension has been stopped. He conferred with other veterans at Camp Thomas who received similar notices. Department stated that passing physical exam for volunteers means they are too healthy for pension.