Joel R. Roe, a private of Company "E" 27th Regiment Iowa Infty Volunteers is reported on our rolls from Oct 3/62 (date of muster in) to Jany 1/63 Present.  Feby 28/63 Present.  (In Hospital #2 Jackson, Tenn. from Jany 16/63 to Feby 18/63).  April 30/63 Absent.  Convalescent at Camp Read Jackson since April 20/63.  June 30/63 Present.  Rejoined Co. (absent sick)  May 3/63.  Aug 31/63 present.  Oct 31/63 present.  Same to April 30/64.  June 30/64 Absent.  Detached for Pioneer Corps.  S.O. No. 17 Hd Qtrs 3d Div. 16 A C. Memphis.  June 20/64.  Same report to April 30/65.  June 30/65 present.  Mustered out with Co. Aug 8/65 at Clinton Iowa, a private.  Returns for Sept/63 does not report him sick.

Roll Pioneer 3d Div 16 Army Corps June 30/64 reports him Pvt. present.  Same report to Oct 31/64.   Transferred to 2d Div. 16 Army Corps.  Roll Dec 31/64 present.  Same report to April 30/65.

Hospital Register 27th Iowa Vols which commence Sept 22d 62 & terminates June 24/64 shows him admitted Feby 19/63 with remittent fever & sent to Gen'l Hospital at Feby 19.  Returned to to duty Mch 14.  Morning reports of Comp'y "E" 27th Iowa show him June 5/65 "Returned to company from detached duty"  Cause for which in hospital at Jackson Tenn Jan & Feby 63 & nature of sickness other than Remit Fever not shown.  Pioneer Records of 16th Army Corps furnish no information.  Records fail to show injury Sept. 1863.

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Assistant Adjutant General.

State of Missouri
Livingston County

On this 15th day of June, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty personally appeared before me, a court of the record within and for the County and State aforesaid, Joel R. Roe aged 52 years, a resident of the Wheeling Township, county of Livingston, State of Missouri, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Joel R. Roe who was enrolled on the 14 day of August 1862 in Company E of the 27 Regiment of Iowa Inft, commanded by Col Gilbert and was honorably discharged at Clinton, Iowa on the 8 day of August 1865; that his personal description is as follows; age 30 years; height 5 feet 10 3/4 inches; complexion, dark; hair, brown, eyes, gray.  That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of his duty at Little Rock, in the State of Arkansas on or about the 25 day of September 1863, he while on duty and line of service was injured by a fall from door of guard house backward down a distance of six feet, striking on his head and small of his back.  That his head and back was permanently injured.  That before that time his feet had been injured at Battle Cross Roads Tenn. and has not recovered.  That he was treated at hospitals as follows:  He was treated for his feet in Reg. Hospital and command at Hospital Jackson Tenn. in Jan. or Feb. 1863 and for his injury in his head and back in Reg. Hospital at Little Rock in September & Oct. 1863.  That he has not been employed in the military or naval service otherwise than as stated above.

That since leaving the service this applicant has resided in the Brush Creek , Fayette Co. in the State of Iowa until Dec. 1875 when we moved to Wheeling. That prior to his entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound, physical health, being when enrolled a farmer.  That he is now disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor by reason of his injuries, above described, received in the service of the United States; and he therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States. 

State of Iowa
County of Clayton

In the matter of of Joel R. Roe, Private of Co. E 27th Reg. of Iowa Infy.

Personally came before me, a clerk of the Dist. Court in and for aforesaid County and State, John Everall, aged 44 years and citizen of the town of Farmersburg, County of Clayton, State of Iowa, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declare in relation to aforesaid case, as follows: 

I was 1st Sergt. of Co. E 27th Iowa Inft.  Knew Joel R. Roe who was a private in said company and Regt.  Roe when he entered the U.S. Service in Aug. 1862 was apparently a strong healthy man.  He was a good soldier in every particular.  I was present with the Regt in a march after Forest in Jan. 1863.  Left Jackson Tenn on night of Jan 1st 1863.  About the fourth day out remember seeing Roe nearly barefoot feet bleeding and badly swollen from marching over stones and frozen ground.  Saw him apply to Capt. T. G. Dripps for permission to leave ranks as he could not march and permission was granted.  I was also present with the Regt. at the taking of Little Rock in Aug. or Sept. 1863.  Roe was present.  I was in Hospital at Little Rock some two weeks and during that time heard from members of the company that Roe was dangerously hurt by a fall striking on his head or back.  Know nothing of his treatment but know that he was not as good a man physically afterwards.

And I further declare that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution.

Signed:  John Everall.

General Affidavit
State of Iowa
County of Kossuth

In the matter of the invalid pension claim No. 380375 of Joel R. Roe.

Personally came before me, a Clerk of the District in and for aforesaid County and State Dexter H. Hutchins, aged sixty years, a citizen of the town of Algona, County of Kossuth, State of Iowa, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforesaid case as follows:

That the said Joel R. Roe was a member of Co. E, 27th Reg. Iowa Vols. of which Co. the affiant was a private in December 1862 and January 1863 . That during that time our regiment marched from Jackson Tennessee to Clifton on the Tennessee River and that during said march the weather some of the time was cold and rainy. And the roads some of the time nearly impassable on account of mud.  And further it was current talk in our Company that the said Joel R. Roe marched much of the time barefooted and that he complained to the Captain of his suffering and that for his complaints, the Captain cursed him but afterward wrote and had published in the Clayton County Journal an article applauding his Roe's heroics for marching for days with bleeding feet. And the affiant further says that during the said march he was at the left or foot of the Company and that the said Roe was near the head of the same, and that he the affiant cannot state that he saw the said Roe marching barefoot, but knows from common report. And further that he the said affiant recollects the talk in the company about the said Roe getting badly hurt at Little Rock but has forgotten the particulars and only remembers what was talk at the time.

And he further declares that he has no interest in said case and is not concerned in it prosecution.

Signature of Affiant: Dexter H. Hutchins