Also personally appeared W. J. Gilbreath [name hard to read; may be mistranscribed] residing at West Fork, Ark., and J. ____, residing at West Fork, Ark, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say they were present and saw Jas. W. Phillips [Jas. is an abbreviation for James] the claimant sign his name to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim -- Signatures: W. G. Gilbreath and J. Gerdin [names hard to read; may be mistranscribed]. SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me this 10 day of Sept., A.D. 1883, and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses, before swearing thereto... Hugh F. Reagan and ____ [signatures hard to read]

Source: I obtained this military record from the U.S. Federal Government.