Pam,

What you're looking at is not a pension file, it is a card referencing a pension file application. I have a subscription to Ancestry.Com. If you'll post your veteran's name and his unit, I'll add the image to your posting, where we can all look at it and see if we can translate the info for you.

We offer a service here at History-Sites.Com (see the link below) to provide copies of Civil War soldiers' service records and pension application files. On average Union veterans pension application files are between 60-70 pages. Recently, we processed several Union pension files that were over two hundred pages.

Jim Martin