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1863-05-29 Page 1
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29t July Dominick Heagney was to discharge died June 12 of 63 Helena Arkansas May the 29, 1863 To the governor of Iowa the Honorable Samuel J Kirkwood in writing to you i look for sympathy as you are my governor and me your subject i hope my petition wont be reproachful i am now in the service of the 29th Iowa under Col Thomas H Benton Jr i have learned that my famly is in a bad situation my wife having ben confined to bed since the fifth of January last and was given up by the Doctor which you will see by a letter i got from my boy he is eleven years old and he is all the help there is at home our Family Doctor got Colonel Mcutt of Council Bluffs to write to Secretary Stanton to Discharge me and i would have writen to you before but i was waiting to see if i would get any news from the Secretary but i have not, my wife having got some better i concluded i would not write to you for aid but having received a letter from the Doctor yester day that my wife could not possibly live more than two or three months and my mother is 63 years
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29t July Dominick Heagney was to discharge died June 12 of 63 Helena Arkansas May the 29, 1863 To the governor of Iowa the Honorable Samuel J Kirkwood in writing to you i look for sympathy as you are my governor and me your subject i hope my petition wont be reproachful i am now in the service of the 29th Iowa under Col Thomas H Benton Jr i have learned that my famly is in a bad situation my wife having ben confined to bed since the fifth of January last and was given up by the Doctor which you will see by a letter i got from my boy he is eleven years old and he is all the help there is at home our Family Doctor got Colonel Mcutt of Council Bluffs to write to Secretary Stanton to Discharge me and i would have writen to you before but i was waiting to see if i would get any news from the Secretary but i have not, my wife having got some better i concluded i would not write to you for aid but having received a letter from the Doctor yester day that my wife could not possibly live more than two or three months and my mother is 63 years
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