Chapter CDLXXIX. for the Relief of Eliza B
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CHAP. CDLXXIX.— An Act for the Relief of Eliza B. Anderson. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryPayment to Eliza B. Anderson. be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Eliza B. Anderson, widow of the late Major General Robert Anderson, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in grateful recognition of that singular fidelity to public duty which inspired said Robert Anderson when a major in the United States army, on the twenty-sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, without authority from the President, and in defiance of the wishes of the Secretary of War, to assume the grave responsibility of transferring his small command from 706 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 479–482. 1872. Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumpter, in Charleston harbor, thereby incurring the double reproach from the government of his country that he had acted without orders, and from the enemies of his country that he had “achieved the unenviable distinction of opening civil war,” and at the same time placing himself under the earliest and hottest fire of the rebellion and under those hardships which wrecked his constitution and destroyed his life. Approved, June 10, 1872.