Certificate # 853088
Robert Dunbar
Stonewall North Carolina

Sir 
Will you kindly answer at your earliest convenience, the questions 
enumerated below? The information is requested for future use, and it 
may be of great value to your family.

Very respectful
Signed/Commissioner  

No 1. Are you a married man? If so, please state your wife’s full name, 
and maiden name.
Answer: Yes, Harrette Macallister

No 2. When, where, and by whom were you married?
Answer: 25 November 1872, Columbia NC (Tyrell County)
By  R.R. Leresey, Columbia - Tyrell County – North Carolina

No 3. What record of  marriage exist? 
Answer: None That I know of. There maybe one. I will find out if requested.

No 4. Were you previously married?  If so, please state the name of your 
former wife and the date and place of her death or divorce.
Answer: Never before. My present wife is the first and all.

No 5. Have you any children living? If so give their names and dates of 
their birth.
Answer: One, Mandy Dunbar, Born November 3 1878.

Signed / December 3 1897 / Robert Dunbar

In matter of original claim of NO# 853088 of Robert Dunbar alias Robert 
Danvars late of Company B, 35th Regt. U.S.C.T Infantry on this 6th day of 
April 1899 personal appraised before me a Notary Public only authorized 
to administer oath in and for the County of Craven and state of North 
Carolina.

Mr. Robert Dunbar alias Danvar age 52 years, Residents of Stonewall, NC 
who being only sworn according to law discloses as follows in relation to 
his original claim under general law: 

I enlisted a well and hasty young man June 2 1863 at New Bern, NC on about 
the 20th of July 1863, I was ill with fever. On July 30 1863 my company and 
regiment left New Bern for Polly Island South Carolina. I was sick with 
fever and was sent to the hospital and could not go. I was with John Roe of 
Company A 35th Regt. U.S.C.T. and the others sick in the hospital. When 
released from the hospital we were detached to the 36th U.S.C.T. Regt. 
Commanded by Col. Grafer and were carried to Portsmouth, VA. On or about the 
month of September 1863. Then I became ill with measles, diarrhea and piles. 
I became partially blind. I was in the hospital over four weeks. I remained 
detached to the 36th Regt. U.S.C.T. until about the last of January 1864. I 
was ordered with the detachment to go to my Company B 35th and Regiment, 
which was at Polly Island SC. On the way the Smallpox broke out in the 
detachment. I was sick with the Small Pox and was vaccinated in the left 
arm. I was hospitalized with the Small Pox and treated by doctors and by 
exposure and cold I was sick with rheumatism, which caused the right leg to 
become 4 inches shorter than the other was and caused a limp. The results of 
the measles and Small Pox caused total blindness of the left eye and partial 
blindness in the right eye. The sight of the left eye has been gone over 
three years. I can not see at all out of the left eye. I was continually 
troubled with Diarrhea and the piles. I had it two or three times a week, 
which caused pain in the stomach. The reason I got the testimony of John Roe 
is because he was with me in the detachment when my company and regiment was 
at Polly Island, SC., he was sick too. There are records of my disabilities 
in the Surgeon General office at Washington, DC. I was in hospital at each 
place from the time I was first ill in New Bern, NC (July 1863), Portsmouth, 
VA (September 1863) and Polly Island, SC (July 1864). When I left the 
Hospital at Polly Island, SC I join my company and Regiment on about May 
1864 at Jacksonville, Florida, where my Company and Regiment took part in 
the battle of Honey Hill, SC November 30 1864. I could not go with the unit 
when they took Charleston, SC July 1865, I was ill with rheumatism, diarrhea, 
piles and partially blind. I was also in the hospital during the spring 1866 
and under treatment of Surgeon at the time we were mustered out. I have never 
well a day since. I am totally blind in the left eye and partially blind in 
the right eye. I claim pension right under act of August 4 1886 of congress 
and subsequent acts there to. I can’t do anything. I ask that my original 
claim be taken up and settled and that my Post Office address be listed 
Stonewall, Pamlico County, NC."

Witness:                                    S / Robert Dunbar alias Danvers
James M. Harrison                
Joe Mamenbug 

Sworn to and subscribe before me on this 6th day of April AD 1889 at New 
Bern NC and certified that I read over forgoing affidavit to the said 
affiant including dates and pleas and acquainted him of its content before 
me he executed the same; and that I have been personally acquainted with 
the affiant for thirty five years and that he is enable and worthy of 
belief. I have no interest in the claim.

S / Fredrick Douglas Notary Public 

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