This collection contains three certifications of disability from medical examinations of George W. Viar, a private in Company E, 24th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. Written on two sides of the same paper are two reports from regimental surgeon J. M. Estill, at the Camp of Instruction, Dublin, Virginia. In the first of these, written September 24, 1862, Estill writes that Viar suffers from hypertrophy of the liver and ascites and recommends that Viar be detailed in the Quartermaster's Department as a shoemaker. On August 22, 1863, Estill writes that Viar should be discharged. In his certification of October 4, 1863, also written at Dublin, G. Latham reports that Viar suffers from ascites and will be unfit for duty for at least 30 days. Accompanying the certifications is a brief note from a wounded soldier who states that he is forwarding some documents at Viar's request.