Chapter 426. Directing the Secretary of War to cause the name of Fred B
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CHAP. 426.— An Act Directing the Secretary of War to cause the name of Fred B. Barnes to be entered as a private on the muster-roll of Company I, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and for other purposes.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fred. B. Barnes.Military record corrected. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the muster-roll of Company I, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, the name of Fred.
B. Barnes, as private, as of the first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, with the following remarks: “Captured by the Confederates with his regiment on the twenty-fourth day of Marell, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Union City, Tennessee, and sent to Andersonville, Georgia, where he died in prison of chronic diarrhea, February sixteenth, eighteen Pay, bounty, etc., to heirs.hundred and sixty-five.” And the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to settle the accounts of the said Fred.
B. Barnes for pay, bounty, and commutations of rations from February first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, deducting any and all payments which may have been made him, and pay the same to the heirs of said Barnes. And so much money as may be necessary therefor, in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for such purpose. Approved, March 3, 1887.