Chapter 425. for the relief of Isaac Crawford
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CHAP. 425.— An Act for the relief of Isaac Crawford.Mar. 3, 1887. Whereas, Company F of the Third Tennessee Mounted Infantry was, itsPreamble. time having expired, mustered out of service, so far as the records of the company show, on the thirtieth of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, but on the same day, and before disbandment, was ordered from Knoxville, Tennessee, to the neighboring county of Greene, to repel a force of the enemy; and Whereas, Isaac Crawford, a member of said company, while strictly obeying orders, was captured in actual conflict and taken as a prisoner of war to Richmond, Virginia, and there held until exchanged on March first,eighteen hundred and sixty-five:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Isaac Crawford.Military record corrected., That the Adjutant-General of the Army be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant an honorable discharge to the said Isaac Crawford, to date from March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in place of the discharge granted him dated November thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Approved, March 3, 1887.