Pre-printed form filled out in ink; measures 7 ¾” x 3” on lined paper.  Excellent condition. The soldier received his pay while in the hospital.

“Pay Department, U.S.A. / Nashville, Tenn., July 1864. / Paymaster of the 136 Regt. New York / I have this day paid in Hospital H L Fanning / of Co. G private’s pay, for the months of May and June, / 1864 / Thirty=two Dollars”.  Pre-printed signature, “D.D.S. BROWN / PAYMASTER U.S. ARMY”.

Henry L. Fanning, born in 1843 in Avon, NY, was a resident of that town when he enlisted at the age of 19 as a Private on 8/25/62. On 9/25/62 he mustered into Co. G, 136^th New York Infantry. Fanning, for unknown reasons, was a patient at Sherman US Army General Hospital in Nashville, as indicated on another pay document found online.  Following the war he lived in Bangor, Van Buren Co., MI, and was a member of GAR Post #19 (A. Lincoln). Fanning died on 7/24/1923 and is buried in Arlington Hill Cemetery in Bangor.  [ld]

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