Chapter 36. for the relief of George W
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CHAP. 36.— An Act for the relief of George W. McKinney.January 12, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,George W. McKinney.Military record corrected. That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to revoke and set aside the general order of Major-General D. S. Stanley, dated Headquarters First Division, Fourth Army Corps, March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and numbered twenty-two, approving the finding and sentence of the general court martial in the case of George W.
McKinney, private Company E, Thirty-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, finding him “not guilty of desertion, but guilty of absence without leave,” and sentencing him “to forfeit all pay and allowance due him from the United States from the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, until the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three” and correct his record so as to show him absent on leave duly granted, from May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, to August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty two, and absent, disabled from sickness and disease, rendering him unfit for any military duty, up to September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when he rejoined his company.
Approved, January 12, 1893.