{"id":8483,"date":"2019-02-28T16:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8483"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:47:03","slug":"getting-the-civil-war-pension-of-david-a-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8483","title":{"rendered":"Getting the Civil War Pension of David A. Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8484 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Fold3_Newman_David_A-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Fold3_Newman_David_A-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Fold3_Newman_David_A-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Fold3_Newman_David_A-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to get the Civil War pension of David A. Newman. The Kentucky native served in an Iowa unit (Company I 20th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry). The unit index card for him does not indicate his widow received a pension, so the amount of family detail may not be as much as I hope. However, it is still possible the file contains significant details.<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s brother is my 3rd great-grandmother and I&#8217;m hoping his file at least provides a specific place of birth in Kentucky for him. The family&#8217;s migration in Indiana and points west is reasonably well document, but their time in Kentucky has not been studied in as much detail. It&#8217;s hoped his pension will help with that.<\/p>\n<p>David had no known close relatives in his military unit and the brother from whom I descend did not live in Iowa. For those reasons, I&#8217;m not hoping for testimony from relatives in his application&#8211;but one never knows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to get the Civil War pension of David A. Newman. The Kentucky native served in an Iowa unit (Company I 20th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry). The unit index card for him does not indicate his widow received a pension, so the amount of family detail may not be as much as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}