U.S. Navy 1868 Continuous Service Certificate -Type I - #275

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U.S. Navy
Continuous Service Certificate #275
Original Type I Continuous Service Certificate, numbered 275, and issued by the Navy from c.1868 until c.1874. This Certificate was issued to Paul C. Joyce at the time he reenlisted in 1868.
1st.Enlistment - 11 July 1862, New York
In Hospital, Norfolk VA - 1 May to 7 May 1865
Reenlisted
- 25
February 1868 (Date he was entered for
Continuous Service)
Discharged
- 23 March 1871(Issued C.S.C. #275 and Good Conduct Badge. note:
the location of his GCB is unknown.)
Reenlisted
- 28 June 1871
Reenlisted
- 6 October 1879 [line drawn through log entry.]
According to Joyce’s Pension Card (image included), he served on several ships during the Civil War, but most appear to have been Receiving Ships, where men undergoing training or awaiting assignment were kept. It is known, thanks to copies of Joyce’s medical records included with this lot, he was assigned to the U.S.S. National Guard. This ship spent the war as a supply ship in Haiti, serving US warships chasing blockade runners. Joyce’s pension records may be accessible upon request to NARA as the Pension Card has his application and certificate numbers, which would get you information on his entire war service. Lot comes with 16 pages of my research.
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NOTE: I am in the process of breaking up a 50+ year collection of U.S. Navy Good Conduct Medals, Good Conduct Badges (Nickel Cross), Continuous Service Certificates, discharge papers, photographs, etc., etc., etc.. Many of these items were used to illustrate my research in my book
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