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Born: 1826 Jamestown, County Leitrim, Ireland.

Immigrated: 1841 to New York (at 15 years of age).

Died: April 11, 1911 (84 years of age) in Ireland, after returning in retirement.

Buried: Keadu, Co Roscommon, Ireland.

Brother of Patrick McManus , 14th Brooklyn, Co. E

Occupation: Mason, plasterer.

Description: 5 foot, 10 inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.

Enlisted: March 8, 1862 (32 years of age) at Brooklyn, NY by Major Robert B. Jordan to serve 3 years.

Mustered In: March 8, 1862 as private.

Company: E

Discharged: February 3, 1863 for disability at Convalescent Camp, Virginia.

Contracted chronic dysentery of 5 months standing with emaciation contracted since enlistment Contracted chronic lung disease after Groveton and 2nd Bull Run. Taken off the field by cart and sent to Stone General Hospital, 14th Street, Washington, D.C. Then sent to General Hospital "Sisters of Charity", Surgical Floor, Philadelphia, PA for 2 months. There he was sent to Camp Convalescent and honorably discharged as unfit for duty. He was sickly the remaining years of his life.

Occupations:
Worked in NYC as a plasterer when he was physically able to. Worked in Ireland as a slator (installing slate roofs) when he was physically able to. Worked in the Pension Office in Washington, D.C. from 1887 to 1891. Retired to Ireland as US Army Pensioner.

Married: January 4, 1872 (at 46 years of age) to Eliza Kennedy of Moyne, County Longford, Ireland. Children - None.

Affidavits to obtain a military pension:

State Of New York
County of Kings    

  Before me, the undersigned authority, personally came and appeared Charles A. Bartow, who being
duly sworn, on his oath says; that he was a private in Co.E 14th NYSM-84th NY volunteers during
the war of the rebellion; that he knows and then knew Terrence McManus, who was also a private 
in said Company, that he and the said McManus were comrades and present on duty in all the 
forced marches on their said regiment in Virginia in the year 1862, before and after the battles of 
Groveton, Second Bull Run and Chantilly, that before and during said marches the said McManus 
was a strong and active man, with great power of endurance, but when he was disabled from the 
hardships of the campaign, and sent to Hospital; the said McManus has never recovered from the
injuries and disability he then suffered, and has never been the same man he was before that, while 
making the hard marches and suffering the exposures and privations of the regiment at that time, he 
contracted some disease of the lungs, from which he has never recovered, and that he has suffered 
from a hacking cough, bodily weaknes, and some lung disease ever since.

                                                                    Charles A. Bartow
                                                                        51 North Oxford St
                                                                        Brooklyn
Sworn to before me
this 28th day of May 1889
George K. Gilluly
Notary Public
        Kings Co.

State Of New York
County of Kings    

   On this day before me the undersigned authority personally appeared...who being duly sworn on his 
oath says: that he was a private in Co.E, 14th NYSM-84th NY Volunteers, during the rebellion, that 
he knew Terence McManus, who was also a private in said company in the year 1862 and has known 
him ever since said years; that at the time he first enlisted in the aforesaaid regiment the said 
McManus was an active and energetic man; that on the return of the said McManus from the war he
was disabled and broken down man, suffering from a lung or throat disease and had frequent hacking 
and great bodily weakness, that said McManus suffered severe hardship and exposure with the 
regiment in the forced marches before and after the battles of Groveton, Second Bull Run, and 
Chantilly, and was sent to hospital disabled in consequence, and that he was discharged on account 
of disability suffered at that time, as affiant is informed and believes that the said McManus has
never been the same man since what he was before the said hardships and exposure.

                                                                 Charles Teasdale

Sworn to before me
this 28th day of May 1889
George K. Gilluly
Notary Public
     Kings Co

State Of New York
County of Kings    

    Before me, the undersigned authority, personally came and appeared, George S. Elcock, who 
being duly sworn on his oath says that he knew Terrence McManus, who was a private in Co.E. 
14th NYSM - 84th NY Volunteers in the years 1862, and has known him continuously ever since; 
that the said McManus was an active and vigorous man when he joined said regiment, and that at 
the time of his discharge and continuously ever since he has been broken down in health and feeble,
suffering from some throat or lung disease and a cough that affiant is informed and believes that 
said McManus was discharged for disability arising from throat or lung disease during the hard 
marches and exposures of said regiment at the time of the battles of Groveton, Second Bull Run, 
and Chantilly, that affiant knows said NcManus never recovered from the disability for which he 
was discharged.

                                                    George S. Elcock
                                                    Late Capt. E Co, 14th Regt. N.Y.S.M.


Sworn to before me
this 29th day of July 1889
George K. Gilluly
Notary Public
    Kings Co