BENEFITS CLAIM LETTER FOR GETTYSBURG P.O.W.

BENEFITS CLAIM LETTER FOR GETTYSBURG P.O.W.

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Offered here are a simple letter and envelope, both being official Treasury Department stationary. This is a notification that the application for benefits was received. Printed form, completed in ink, dated May 26, 1865.

John G. Bancroft was 18 years old and from Marshfield, VT, when he enlisted on 7/28/1862 as a Private on Company "C" of the 1st Vermont Cavalry. Captured 7/3/1863 at Gettysburg, and paroled one month later. He died of typhoid fever on 4/29/1865 at Harpers Ferry. He is buried in the Winchester, Virginia, National Cemetery.

The 1st Vermont Cavalry played a dramatic role at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, participating in General Elon Farnsworth's doomed cavalry charge. Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Addison W. Preston, the regiment lost 65 casualties.  [jet][ph:L]

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