Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, BY ROBERT CLARKE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of Ohio. E. MORGAN & SONS, Stereotypers, Printers & Binders, CINCINNATI, 0. PREFACE. THIS Manual is designed to embrace all that is of most importance pertaining to the subjects to which it relates. While brevity has been aimed at, nothing has been excluded which, in the judgment of the Compiler, would add to its usefulness. Some portions of the Contents may seem to possess no practical value; but, as exhibiting the growth and scope of the Pension System of the United States, their omission would have rendered the book incomplete. CANTON, O., October, 1862. War of the Revolution-Military and Naval............. 104 Regulations and Forms for obtaining Gratuitous Pen- sions for Survivors of the Revolution............................... Widows and Orphans-Revolutionary War............... 128 Regulations and Forms for obtaining Pensions for Widows and Orphans-Regulars, since Revolution... 158 |