Belless, Walter J.—Enlisted 12 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. H, 103
rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5'7" tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born in Hancock
County, Indiana. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 15 January 1864. Mustered out 1
August 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
1850 Census, Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois: Joseph Belless (49) and Catharine
Belless (51). Their children: Elizabeth (21); Walter J. (18); James (15); William (10) and
Amos (6).
Belless, Walter J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Walter was unmarried. He had a right inguinal hernia with a tumor in the groin measuring
5x4 inches and kidney disease. In 1898 he was 5'7" tall; weighed 135 pounds, and was
67 years old. He lived in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1891.
rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5'7" tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born in Hancock
County, Indiana. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 15 January 1864. Mustered out 1
August 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
1850 Census, Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois: Joseph Belless (49) and Catharine
Belless (51). Their children: Elizabeth (21); Walter J. (18); James (15); William (10) and
Amos (6).
Belless, Walter J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Walter was unmarried. He had a right inguinal hernia with a tumor in the groin measuring
5x4 inches and kidney disease. In 1898 he was 5'7" tall; weighed 135 pounds, and was
67 years old. He lived in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1891.
Belless, Walter J.—Enlisted 12 August 1862, 30 years old, as a private in Co. H, 103
rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5'7" tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born in Hancock
County, Indiana. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 15 January 1864. Mustered out 1
August 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
1850 Census, Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois: Joseph Belless (49) and Catharine
Belless (51). Their children: Elizabeth (21); Walter J. (18); James (15); William (10) and
Amos (6).
Belless, Walter J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Walter was unmarried. He had a right inguinal hernia with a tumor in the groin measuring
5x4 inches and kidney disease. In 1898 he was 5'7" tall; weighed 135 pounds, and was
67 years old. He lived in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1891.
rd
Infantry. Description at enlistment: 5'7" tall; dark hair; grey eyes; born in Hancock
County, Indiana. Transferred to Invalid Corps on 15 January 1864. Mustered out 1
August 1865 at Cairo, Illinois.
1850 Census, Pleasant, Fulton County, Illinois: Joseph Belless (49) and Catharine
Belless (51). Their children: Elizabeth (21); Walter J. (18); James (15); William (10) and
Amos (6).
Belless, Walter J.—Civil War Pension Application, National Archives, Washington, DC:
Walter was unmarried. He had a right inguinal hernia with a tumor in the groin measuring
5x4 inches and kidney disease. In 1898 he was 5'7" tall; weighed 135 pounds, and was
67 years old. He lived in Lewistown (Fulton) Illinois in 1891.
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