Civil War Volunteer Officers´ Retired List
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Excerpt from Civil War Volunteer Officers´ Retired List: Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives on H. R. 9837 The committee met at 10.30 o´clock a.m., Hon. James Hay (chairman) presiding. There were present before the committee Hon. John A. T. Hull, Gen. Edward S. Salomon, president of the Association of Volunteer Officers of the Civil War; Hon. Isaac I. Sherwood, Col. J. P. Clark, Col. S. L. Glasgow, Capt. A. D. Gaston, member of the committee of the Association of Volunteer Officers of the Civil War; and John McElroy, editor of the National Tribune. The committee had under consideration House bill 9837, introduced by Mr. Sulzer May 18, 1911, which is as follows: [H. R. 9537, Sixty-second Congress, first session.] A bill to create in the War Department and the Navy Department, respectively, a roll designated as "The Civil War volunteer officers´ retired list," to authorize placing thereon with retired pay certain surviving officers who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the Civil War, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, in recognition of meritorious service rendered to the Government of the United States in the Civil War for the preservation of the Union, there is hereby created in the War Department and Navy Department, respectively, a roll designated as "The Civil War volunteer officer´s retired list." Upon written application made to the Secretary of the proper department, and subject to the conditions and requirements hereinafter contained, the name of each surviving officer of volunteers who served as an officer in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States in the Civil War and was honorably discharged from service by muster out, resignation, or otherwise, shall be entered on said list as of the highest rank held by him during said service. Each surviving officer so entered on said list shall have served in said Army, Navy, or Marine Corps in said war not less than six months, shall not have been retired with continuing retired pay, and shall not belong to the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps: provided, that a surviving officer who lost an eye, an arm, or a leg in the line of duty, or who was honorably discharged from service by muster out, resignation, or otherwise, because of a wound or other bodily injury received or incurred in the line of duty, or because of disability incurred in the line of duty while a prisoner of war, shall, if otherwise eligible under the terms hereof, be entitled to be placed on said list, and to receive the maximum retired pay herein provided for officers of his former rank without regard to the length of his said service: and provided further. That in computing the length of service of any surviving officer, for the purposes of this act, there shall be included, in addition to his service as an officer of any rank, all such service as he shall have rendered in said war as an enlisted man or as an appointed petty officer. Applications for entry on said Civil War volunteer officers retired list shall be made in such form and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the War Department and Navy Department, respectively, and proper blanks shall be furnished for said purpose upon request made to the proper department by surviving officers claiming the benefits of this act. A certificate of service, and of enrollment under this act, properly prepared in the War Department and Navy Department, respectively, shall be furnished to each surviving officer whose name shall be entered on said list. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more a
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