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NARA 276

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Disbursing Office
Freedmen's Branch A.G.O.
Columbia. S.C. Mch 18.74

L. H. Verdier
Bluffton, S.C.

Your letter received. I have bounty money for Milburn Wordier - You state that he is dead - To establish this fact officially - and to inform you of the necessary steps to be taken - you will please have affidavits taken, before a proper person - of the circumstance of his death - the date and place of same. The affidavit should also embrace: - His name - rank (when discharged from the service) Co - Regiment - when and where enlisted and by whom - when and where mustered into service and by whom - when born - age

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-07-09 15:06:07 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-07-09 15:14:19 Milburn Wordier confirmed by other records. Have preserved slight misspelling here(e before i) ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-07-09 15:17:37 changed name to Wordier giving the benefit of the doubt that name is not misspelled