Know All Whom it may Concern
Paid in full July 14, 1865
G. K. Cleveland? Paymaster US of A
Know ye, that Joseph C. Walker a Artificer of Captain P. H. Goodes Company (4th) Iowa Regiment of Independent Battery Volunteer , who was enrolled on the Sixth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty three to serve three years or during the war is hereby discharged from the service of the United States this Fourteenth day of July 1865, at Davenport, Iowa by reason of S. O. No 170 Hd 2n Dept. of Gulf dated June 26th 1865.
(No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist*)
Said Joseph C. Walker was born in Swetzerland Co in the State of Indiana, is thirty five years of age, five feet five inches high, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, and by occupation, whenever enrolled a Blacksmith.
Given at Davenport, Iowa this fourteenth day of July 1865.
P.H. Goode
Captain
Commanding the Battery
This sentence will be erased should there be anything in the conduct on physical condition of the soldier rendering him unfit for the army
(A.P.O. No. 99)
Alex Murry
Capt W.S.A.
Mustering Officer