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This collection contains six letters of personal correspondence between Elijah Hawn and his wife Nancy dated from May 26, 1862 through June 16, 1863. Also included are form no. 79 from the U.S. Treasury Department (which allows for Nancy to be granted a widow’s pension), a letter from the Department of the Interior rejecting her widow’s pension on the grounds that she remarried, and a division of land agreement.

This collections contains approximately 5,100 handwritten and typed 7 x 12 cm cards with pension and/or service information of Revolutionary War soldiers from the state of Tennessee. The records were compiled from several sources by Ina Fields Wayland of Knoxville, Tennessee.