Chapter CXIX. for the Relief of the Widow and Children of Colonel James A
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CHAP. CXIX.— An Act for the Relief of the Widow and Children of Colonel James A. Mulligan, deceased.July 3, 1868. Whereas James A. Mulligan on the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundredPreamble. and sixty-one, was mustered into the service of the United States as colonel of the twenty-third Illinois infantry, known as the “Irish brigade,” marched to the front in July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and from that time, (excepting two months when a prisoner of war,) was actively engaged in the military service of the republic against armed rebels until he fell on the battle-field of Winchester, the twenty-sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and whereas during two years of that military service he was assigned to the command of brigades and divisions, and performed the duties of brigadier and major general, but received only the pay of a colonel; and whereas the widow and children of the said Colonel James A.
Mulligan are justly entitled to, and need for their support, the amount of pay which he would have received if he had been commissioned according to his respective commands in the field: Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of thePayment to Marian Mulligan, widow of Colonel James A. Mulligan. Treasury be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Marian Mulligan, widow of said Colonel James A.
Mulligan, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the money appropriated for the pay of the army. Approved, July 3, 1868.