"The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... "
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Title
"The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... "
Subject
Military pensions--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Bounties, Military--United States
Description
The manual's introduction states:
There is no particular class of wounds, injuries, or diseases, for which pensions are granted. It depends not so much upon the wound, injury, or disease itself, as upon the disabled condition arising therefrom. A soldier may have been sunstruck and now be troubled with vertigo, heart disease, or nervous debility, or contracted rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, camp diarrhea or a cold which has developed into a serious throat or lung trouble; his confinement as a prisoner-of-war may have developed scurvy with its attendant horrors; indeed, his army service may have been the direct or indirect cause of almost any known disease. He may have become ruptured (or "breached") from overstraining; or incurred varicose veins from long and rapid marches; or become partially or entirely deaf; or he may have been wounded, or lost a finger or other member, or received other injuries, either external or internal. In short, it may be said that anything in the nature of a wound, injury, or disease, which impairs a man's usefulness as a member of society, or materially disables him for the performance of manual labor, entitles him to a pension under the law. The disability arising therefrom may be slight, and yet a rating can be had.
There is no particular class of wounds, injuries, or diseases, for which pensions are granted. It depends not so much upon the wound, injury, or disease itself, as upon the disabled condition arising therefrom. A soldier may have been sunstruck and now be troubled with vertigo, heart disease, or nervous debility, or contracted rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, camp diarrhea or a cold which has developed into a serious throat or lung trouble; his confinement as a prisoner-of-war may have developed scurvy with its attendant horrors; indeed, his army service may have been the direct or indirect cause of almost any known disease. He may have become ruptured (or "breached") from overstraining; or incurred varicose veins from long and rapid marches; or become partially or entirely deaf; or he may have been wounded, or lost a finger or other member, or received other injuries, either external or internal. In short, it may be said that anything in the nature of a wound, injury, or disease, which impairs a man's usefulness as a member of society, or materially disables him for the performance of manual labor, entitles him to a pension under the law. The disability arising therefrom may be slight, and yet a rating can be had.
Abstract
The soldiers' manual includes a table of compensation for various levels of disability.
Creator
Stevens, Milo B., and Co.
Publisher
Cleveland, Ohio : Milo B. Stevens & Company
Date Created
1888, circa
Rights
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Relation
Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (P.5619). View the online catalog record.
Is Part Of
Papers of Philon Whidden (1980-81/m/24).
Format
text
Extent
Excerpt (2 pages)
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0001644
Provenance
Gift of William B. Rogers to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1981.
Files
Collection
Citation
Stevens, Milo B., and Co., “"The soldiers' manual : a hand book of useful and reliable information, showing who are entitled to pensions, increase, bounty, pay, etc. ... ",” OnView, accessed April 19, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6047.