He Served in Place of Abraham Lincoln

[Gene C]

(01-24-2016 09:25 AM)maharba Wrote:  When he filed for a small pension, it is appalling that the cronies who had prospered so well under Lincoln and Grant merely lounged idly by. The War office shuffling papers and losing them, and no one at all there seeming to notice or hear Summerfield whose War service standing in the place of Abraham Lincoln, was unprecedented and totally unique.

In all of the links posted I must have overlooked where it stated Larner was aware of Summerfield's pension request and was instrumental in it being denied. The quote attributed to Larner regarding Summerfield is independent of Summerfield's pension problems.
What purpose or motive does Larner have in having this pension request denied?
Other than Larner, what cronies are you referring to?
What are their names?

Since Summerfield's claim comes 20 years after the war, unfortunately but not unique to Summerfield, the burden of proof that his disability was due as a direct result of his service in the war rests with Summerfield, not the War Dept.

Why do you refer to him as Summerfield when his last name was Staples?
Is all this attention to his pension request another Fractured Fairy Tail?