Chapter IV. to remove the Charge of Desertion from certain Soldiers of the Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry
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CHAP. IV.— An Act to remove the Charge of Desertion from certain Soldiers of the Second North Carolina Mounted Infantry.March 26, 1869. Whereas it appears from the evidence of certain officers of the secondCharge of desertion removed from certain soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry.1870, ch. 206.*Post*, p. 647. North Carolina mounted infantry, the records of the War Department, and the official orders of Major-General Schofield, that certain soldiers were detached from the second North Carolina mounted infantry to join the third North Carolina mounted infantry to make a raid into the enemy’s lines in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose of destroying railroad bridges and harassing the enemy, and while absent from their regiments upon such duty they were borne upon the rolls of the second North Carolina mounted infantry as deserters:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to remove the charge of desertion or absence without leave from the following-named soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry: Company A: Joseph Thompson, Job Rice, A. J. Massey, John W. Bullman, James Arrowood, Kinsey Kensley, George West, William Hunter, Alfred Fox, Allen Fox.
Company B: Henry M. Revis, George M. Roberts, Jacob M. Revis, Adam F. Eller, Pinkney Fox, Robert L. Fox, Spencer Rice, Patterson Reece, Robert H. Pickens, Calvin Maney, Sheperd Deaver, Robert Sams, J. B. Gosnel, Peter M. Hughy, Alexander Beachboard, John S. West, Edward Sams, Jeremiah Buckner, Thomas D. Cole, James P. Arrowood, John B. Sage, James M. Cole, John H. Payne. Company C: Lewis W. Ramsey, Samuel Rector, Manley Ball, Hiram Rice, John H. Wild, John Ramsey, George W. Freeman, Andrew J.
Freeman, Robert Anderson, David Lunsford, Jacob H. Wild, John M. Wild, Jackson Paris, William D. Perry, George N. Stines, Job Ramsey, Jackson Ramsey, Abner Brooks, Lewis Paris, Benjamin F. Freeman, Seth Freeman, Jasper Brown, James Pain. Company D: Leander Wright. 604 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 4, 6, 7, 8. 1869. Company E: John Stanton, Hackley Norton, Eliphas Shelton, EzekielCharge of desertion removed from certain soldiers of the second North Carolina mounted infantry.
Sams, James Norton, Samuel Gosnel, William Hensley, Peter McCoy, Simon P. Presnel, William Gentry, William Norton, Tilman Landers, William Shelton, Balis Norton, David Norton, Francis M. Franklin, George M. Gentry, James Gosnel, William J. McCoy, William Norton, junior, Jesse Norton, John E. Griffin, Andrew J. Banks, John H. Cook, William Shelton, junior, Thomas J. Candler, David Shelton, Robert H. Hare, Larkin Stanton, James Norton, junior, George W. Gentry. Company F: James M.
Case, John H. Drake, Joshua F. Case, William C. Lanning, Levi Cantrell, E. F. Case, William F. Case, John Cantrell, Wilie Gosnel, William H. Walker, Richard T. Drake, James J. Camp, Voltair V. C. Cantrell. Company H: Ezekiel Kuykendoll, Daniel Gilbert. Approved, March 26, 1869.