History of the "Soldiers' Home," Washington, D.C.G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914 - 187 páginas |
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26th Congress 2d Session appointed approved Army Asylum Artillery Arty benefit Board of Commissioners Burt Capt Captain Anderson Captain Robert Anderson character Chelsea Hospital command Committee on Military copy Courts Martial deducted desertion disabled soldiers discharged soldiers Duncan Lamont Clinch duty end of book Endorsed enlisted entitled establishment Father's favor February 12 Fort Moultrie Fort Preble further enacted Harrodsburg hereby History honor Hôtel des Invalides House of Representatives infirm inmates institution introduced invalid soldiers James Monroe January January 19 John Reynolds labor LETTER FROM CAPTAIN Major Anderson Major Robert Anderson March ment Military Affairs Military Asylum Military Committee moneys belonging Moultrie NOVEMBER 29 officers old soldiers pensioners petition PHOTOGRAPHED LETTER PLATE present received Regiment regulations relief and support Report and Bill respectfully Retreat Scott Secretary Secretary of War Senate sent STOPPAGES BY COURTS tion Treasury United Washington wounds
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Página 65 - Hamilton, from the committee on military affairs, made the following report: The committee on military affairs, to whom was referred the...
Página 84 - An act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States,
Página 48 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for Snmuel G. Hopkins, late a captain in the Army of the United States, to settle his accounts with the Government upon the principles of equity.
Página 20 - Home since the passage of the act to found the same, March 3, 1851, according to the restrictions and provisions thereof, and who may have been disabled by disease or wounds incurred in the service and in the line of his duty, rendering him incapable of military service. 4. Every pensioner on account of wounds or disability incurred in the military service — though not a contributor to the funds of the Institution — who shall transfer his pension to the Soldier's Home during the period he voluntarily...
Página 77 - Home shall consist of a governor, a deputy governor, and a secretary, for each separate site of the home, the latter to be also the treasurer; and the officers shall be taken from the Army and appointed or removed, from time to time, as the interests of the institution may require, by the Secretary of War, on the recommendation of the board of commissioners.
Página 137 - All public stores taken in the enemy's camp, towns, forts, or magazines, whether of artillery, ammunition, clothing, forage, or provisions, shall be secured for the service of the United States; for the neglect of which the commanding officer is to be answerable.
Página 79 - ... Soldiers' Home shall not be extended to any soldier in the regular or volunteer service, convicted of felony or other disgraceful or infamous crimes of a civil nature after his admission into the service of the United States ; nor shall...
Página 134 - ... (See, in the Adjutant General's office, at Washington, a printed copy of that General Order, No. 287, dated September 17, 1847.) I also copy here, as intimately connected with the same subject, my letter to the Secretary of War, dated at Mexico, February 6, 1848. In that letter, I said : " I have not reported on the subject of secret disbursements since I left Jalapa — 1st, because of the uncertainty of our communications with Vera Cruz ; and, 2d, the necessity of certain explanations, which,...
Página 135 - Number one of the same set of bills is this day transmitted direct to the Bank of America. '"The remainder of the money in my hands, as well as that expended, I shall be ready to account for at the proper time, and in the proper manner (this was done in 1848) merely offering this imperfect report to explain in the meantime the character of the $100,000 draft.
Página 135 - Army Asylum, and make the subject known, in the way you may deem best, to the Military Committees of Congress. That sum is, in small part, the price of the American blood so gallantly shed in this vicinity; and considering that the army receives no prize money, I repeat the hope that its proposed destination may be approved and carried into effect.