John McCloud was my fourth great-grandfather. He was 5 feet, 11 inches, had blue eyes and black hair, and was 34 years old and a farmer from Vermont when he enlisted on June 5, 1812.
His pension file has only a handful of documents, one of which tells how John's service to his country ended. I've transcribed it here.
Fort Erie 28 August 1814
It is hereby certified that John McCloud a Private soldier in Capt Horace Hales company 11 Regt. U.S. Infantry is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of a wound inflicted while he was actually in the service aforesaid and in the line of his duty Viz. in action. By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination, it appears that on the fifth day of July in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen being engaged near a place called Chipawa in the province of Upper Canada he received a wound in his leg by reason of which he lost his right leg and he is thereby not only incapacitated for military duty, but in the opinion of the undersigned is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor and is entitled to a pension of eight dollars per month.
Gordon A. Spencer
Surgeon 11 Inft.
Now you need to post about the warnings out.
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