Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: General Topics: War of 1812 Genealogy Forum Re: Military Records Posted by: Eric E. Johnson (ID *****8851) Date: January 26, 2008 at 16:37:05 In Reply to: Military Records by Judy Anderson of 5689 Judy, Travel time was based on the number of miles between a soldier's discharge location and his home. Therefore, your ancestor was 100 miles from his home when he was discharged. He was given five days pay plus five day of rations so that he could return home. Most likely the signatures on the pension papers are actually the signatures of the veterans. Eric Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Military Records Judy Anderson 1/26/08 Re: Military Records Eric E. Johnson 1/27/08 http://genforum.genealogy.com/warof1812/messages/5532.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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