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WANTED.-Information to prove the record of Bernard Jager (also called Aleck), who served on the Star of the West when it went up the river from the mint at New Orleans. He also served as gunner on the gunboat Morgan and was captured in Mobile Bay. After the war he served as boatman for the Bar Pilot Association at Southwest Pass, La., and died in New Orleans in 1894. This inquiry is in behalf of his widow, who needs a pension, and any one knowing his service will please write to Dr. Margaret Caraway, Gulfport, Miss., Box 73.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, March, 1915.
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