Civil War Pension Index. Microfilm.
Date of filing: 1866 July 17. Application No. 111,918; Certificate No. 506,209
Name of Regiment: F 1 NC Inf; C 2nd US Inf.
DEPOSITION A. Case of Isaac Pierce, No. 111,918.
On this 12th day of March 1890, at Coleraine, County of Bertie, State of NC, before me, Grafter Robertson (?), a Special Examiner of the Pension Office, personally appeared Isaac Pierce, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid pension claim, deposes and says:
His name is Isaac Pierce, age 48 yrs, P.O. Coleraine, Bertie Co., NC, occupation farmer:
I enlisted in Co C 2nd NC Infty Dec. 25, 1863, at Newberne NC and was made sergt of that co. Afterward transferred to Co F 1st NC Infty, discharged in June 1865, Newberne NC.
I ask a pension for fracture left leg.
I was a sgt in Co C 2nd NC; after a time was transferred to Co F 1st NC Ifty. About 1st Feby 1865 I was detailed to move commissary stores under acting qrtmaster Wardell, Beaufort NC. The commissary stores were in a little house just across a bridge that went to the shore in part of the hospital. I had a detail of four or five men with me.
We were moving these commissary stores from this little house to a flatboat. While rolling a barrel of beef or pork, a plank on the bridge broke, & I fell through the bridge to the ground, a fall of some 5 or 6 feet, & fractured my left leg near the ankle.
A soldier, Sgt Frank Blythe fell through the bridge with me at the time. He came up at the moment and spoke to me just as the plank broke & we both went down together. I do not know where he is. I have tried to find him but have not been able to do so.
Marcus Culipher had, I think, hold of the barrel, rolling it with me at the time. John Butler was there in the boat & saw the fall. I don't know if Butler came to me or not.
I was hurt so bad that I do not know who helped me to the hospital. I was taken right up & carried to the hospital, which was only some 20 feet from where I broke my leg.
I got my leg put in splints by the surgeon when my brother, Cincinnati Pierce, who lived in Beaufort NC, had me taken to his house, where I stayed under Dr. J. C. Salter's care for six or eight weeks. Dr. Salter was the hospital surgeon at Beaufort.
I never was sick in hospital at Beaufort or anywhere else while a soldier. Was only in hospital for this fractured left leg at Beaufort.
My brother, James Pierce, Co C 2nd NC Infty, died in the hospital at Beaufort before I got my leg broken. I was discharged from the army while on crutches for this fracture of left leg.
I can't understand why I have no hospital record of this fracture of my left leg.
My captain, Edward C. Blunt, was present when my leg was set in the hospital. He died in Baltimore Md after the war. Lieut. Wm. Craft was also present. I cannot say where he lives. Wm. Hendricks was my orderly sgt. I don't think he was there at the time as he was made a lieut. in a colored regiment about that time. I don't know where he lives.
Q: When at Beaufort NC in 1865, didn't you attend a dance?
A: No sir. I never did.
Q: Didn't you go to a dance at the Atlantic Hotel & while standing on a platform looking in the window at the dancers, the plank on which you were standing gave way, & you fell through to the ground, breaking your leg?
A: No, sir, I did not. As the stretcher bearers carried me by that hotel, they stopped in front of the window a moment & I looked in. My leg had been set then. I positively assert that the Atlantic Hotel was the hospital, & the dance was in there, & I had got my left leg fractured and set before we stopped on the way to my brother's house, where I was being taken. Thomas Holloman & a man named Saml Lorder had hold of the stretcher carrying me along. Holloman is dead, and Lorder, I do not know where he is.
I have heard the statements of Saml H. Taylor and M. A. Marshall, made before Special Examiner Casselman, & they are false. Not a word of truth in them whatever. Both of these men know perfectly they do not speak the truth. Taylor I know. Marshall I have no recollection of. I want to be present when these men are seen, and I ask ten days' notice so I can be there.
I understand the questions asked & my answers are correctly recorded.
Signed: Isaac Pierce
Sworn & signed by Special Examiner.~~~
Isaac Pierce
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ABSTRACT FROM SWORN STATEMENT, dated 27th day of June 1882, made before W. F. Gatling, Clerk of Superior Court, State of North Carolina, Hertford County:
Your client was nursed by his brother, Cincinnatus Pierce, who was a member of his company. His affidavit will be furnished if required.
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