I have an application in for a Pension for a Wound received in action in front of Petersburgh on March the 25th 1865.
My Discharge Papers are in the Hands of John P Hunt Attorney and Counsellor at Law 247 Broadway I wish you would do
me the favor of of Looking up my Claim and Pushing it through for me as I
have suffered a great Deal from the wound and am still suffering from it. I have Had the Best Doctors in New York to
attend me but seem to do no good I have been sick for the Last Three months unable to do anything from cause of Wound.
I Enclose You a Certificate from Dr Corson who attended me after I was first wounded and he has recently Examined it
and I can show Certificates of Half a Dozen of the Best Doctors in the City and Staten Island Friend Whitman I Enlisted
under the Name of James W Roberts in October for one year in the 88th N.Y. Infantry Co A Colonel Denis F Burke1 and was
wounded in the Leg on the 25th of March in action in front of Petersburgh I wish you would
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write me on Receipt of this and Let me know if you can do anything for me and if you know anything of this John P Hunt
and weather he is an authorized claim agent or not and about how Long
Before my Claim will be settled by doing this favor for me you will Confer a Lasting favor
Please return this Certificate
SKW.Correspondent:
Stephen K. Winant served as a Union Soldier in the U. S. Civil War,
enlisting under the name James W.
Roberts. There is record of a James W. Roberts serving in the 88th New York
Infantry, which was one of the regiments collectively known as "The Irish
Brigade" during the Civil War.