Chapter 278. to correct the military record of Joseph WackerlyJuly 27, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Joseph Wackerly
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CHAP. 278.— An Act to correct the military record of Joseph WackerlyJuly 27, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Joseph Wackerly.Military record corrected. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to correct and amend the record of Joseph Wackerly, late a private in Company K, Twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Infantry, by removing therefrom the charges of desertion, and substituting therefor, “Captured at Shiloh, Tennessee, April sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, May twenty two, eighteen hundred and sixty two, and declared exchanged on September twenty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty two, by General Orders one hundred and forty-seven, Adjutant-General’s Office, of 786 eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and never having rejoined his company remained absent without leave until October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when he enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Cavalry Volunteers, for three years, and was mustered out with his company and honorably discharged on November fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, at Nashville Tennessee.
Approved, July 27, 1892.