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Platoff was younger brother to Alonzo S. Bush. He served in companies A and I with the first Indiana Cav. He enlisted July 4th 1861, he saw action at the following battles: Parkersberg? Va., Cross Keys, Port Rebublic, Winchester, Harpers Ferry, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 1st/2nd Bull Run. He was courier to: Fremont, Howard, Rosencrance, Hooker, Seigel and Gen. Carl Shewz? (can''t make out that name) At the second battle of Bull Run he was private orderly to Gen. Fremont and sustained a dislocation of the right shoulder and a head wound from a saber. At Chancelorville in the ''seven day fight'' he received a gunshot wound of the right wrist. At this time he was orderly to Maj. Gen. Seigel. He also served at Gettysburg under Maj. Gen. Howard. In the latter part of 1863 he was sent to Columbia College Hospital, Washington, D.C. Presumably to recover from wounds. On one of his furloughs into town, he and two of his friends: Pat Kinney, Co. B, 1st Indiana and Abram Shanks. Shanks and Kinney went to ''Frenchies'' Saloon, got drunk and Shanks beat up Kinney. Kinney found Platoff at Billy McGee''s Tenpin Alley and told him about the fight. They went back to Frenchies and Kinney then attacked Platoff, hitting him in the mouth with a pair of ''knacks''(what are those?) ''cutting his lips clear through.'' ''A rough and tumble fight accured in the saloon, the keeper pushed us both out into the street, I got hold of a brick bat which I threw hitting Shanks back of the ear. He fell and his head struck the pavement - he died about 4 o''clock the next day'' Platoff was courtmartialled and sentenced to prison at Albany New York. He served about 10 months and President Lincoln pardoned him as it was proven that the brick struck behind his left ear but was not lethal. The wound that killed him was the ''concussion'' he suffered falling to the pavement and cracking his head thereon. Platoff had no intention to kill. Platoff traveled to New Orleans, Arkansas and Texas before settling in Indian Territory, Creek nation (Tulsa, Oklahoma) where he is buried, with his wife Nancy, at the Tulsa Public Cemetery. The cemetary has his birthdate as 1845 which is incorrect, he was born in 1842 or 3 and died in 1914. There are many things I don''t understand about the papers I have regarding Platoff. He applied several times for his pension, each time having to provide notarized statements from doctors, friends, the military, etc. proving his claim. One document says he was honorably discharged from the service, yet he was denied on one application for having been dishonorably discharged. There are several documents about his wounds and how he received them yet, again, he was denied pension because of inability to prove his military service and how he got his wounds! I can find no evidence that Platoff ever received his pension/disability. There are yearly rejection slips however. The last rejection being 1898. Several lawyers acted on his behalf, various power of atty submissions, two requests from one lawyer demanding to know why the government will not acknowledge him as Platoff''s atty when the previous atty died! and the idiotic notations on his reject slips that the claim had been ''abandoned''!!! This despite the fact that he filed, refiled, went through several attys, etc. every year from the early 80''s to 1898! I don''t think Platoff was well served by his government. I have the entire transcript of his trial. He was not found guilty of murder but of manslaughter. Not guilty of assault with intent to kill but guilty of assault. The members of the general court martial asked (Jan. 14, 1864) that his sentence (2 years of hard labor) be remitted. The presiding Maj. Gen. C. C. Augur stated Jan. 13, 1864, the ''proceedings, findings and sentence are confirmed, but the execution of sentence is suspended until the pleasure of the President of the US is made known.'' He served 10 months before he received the Presidential pardon. I''d like to have a copy of that but don''t know where to find it.
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