JIm:

Thanks for the added info.

From what I can tell both Justice Lemire and Justus Lemerc are the same individual who enlisted once in 1861 and then re-enlisted in 1864 at the end of his first term. I have no doubt that this is in fact my ancestor Eustache Lemire, especially since the ages correspond as well.

As to other information that might confirm his reception of a pension, I'm not sure what that might be. I don't know all that much about him.

I know that a marriage license was issued to him and Zepherine Elemond on June 14, 1866 in Winsted, MN were the couple's first children were born. I also know that the family moved and settled in southern Manitoba in 1876 or 1877. They settled in a newly-founded rural community called St. Pierre, but I have no idea how mail was delivered to there at the time or until Eustache Lemire's death there on Nov 13, 1914 at the age of 68.

Does any of that help?