Tag Archives: Veteran Reserve Corps (Invalid Corps)

fleeced

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in August 1865: ANOTHER ROBBERY. – A soldier named Robert Sherman, a member of the Veteran Reserve Corps, and a resident of Rose Valley, Wayne Co., was robbed of some $800 in Albany, … Continue reading

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mendicants no more

Here is an editorial praising the Invalid Corps (later the Veteran Reserve Corps) as a way for slightly disabled volunteers to earn their pension benefit and as a way to free up healthier soldiers for front line duty. From The … Continue reading

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