Chapter 685. to correct the military record of Jonathan Murphy, of Grant County, Indiana
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CHAP. 685.— An Act to correct the military record of Jonathan Murphy, of Grant County, Indiana.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Jonathan Murphy.Military record corrected. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and required to amend the military record of Jonathan Murphy, of Grant County, Indiana, and late a private of Company G, of the Fifty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers in the war of the rebellion, by removing therefrom the charge of desertion, and substitute therefor, slightly wounded and captured in a skirmish at Durhamville.
Tennessee, on September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and paroled; and, with-out having returned to his command, re-enlisted in Company F. one hundred and twenty-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, on December twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, served faithfully therein, and was honorably mustered out with said company on *Proviso.*No pay, etc.August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: *Provided,* That he shall receive no pay or allowances by virtue of this act.
Approved, March 3, 1891.