Chapter 196. To correct the military record of William Lapoint
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CHAP. 196.— An Act To correct the military record of William Lapoint. February 4, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarWilliam Lapoint.Military record corrected. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to correct the military record of Wiliam Lapoint, late private in Company C, Third Vermont Volunteers, be removing the charge of “desertion” and substituting “absented himself without proper authority in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and so remained to December twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when he enlisted as a private in Company H, Ninth Regiment Vermont Infantry Volunteers, and served faithfully in aid company, and in Company C, same regiment, to which he was duly transferred June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- five, until December first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, when he was honoraby discharged with his company.
” Approved, February 4, 1901.