| SENATE 51STH
CONGRESS, 1st Session IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 24, 1890 – Ordered to be printed. Mr Walthall, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany S. 1971) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was
referred the
bill (S. 1971) for the relief of William Clawson, having considered the
same, report as follows: The facts of this case, as shown by the sworn
petition of William Clawson, supported in all material respects by a
number of affidavits of members of Company I, Fourth Regiment Iowa
Volunteers, are these: Clawson enlisted as a private in that company on
the 2d day of August, 1861, and was sworn into service by its captain;
but the mustering officer refused to muster him because he thought
Clawson had consumption, which proved to be a mistake.
Clawson, with the consent of the captain, remained with the
company and did regular service and participated in every action in
which his command was engaged, including the siege of Vicksburg, until
the 8th of August, 1862, when his captain resigned and he left the
company, having, in the meantime, contracted disease in the service.
The fact of his service between the dates named is clearly
established, and although his name is not borne on the rolls of the
company on file in the War Department, the actual service he performed
seems to entitle him to relief. Your committee recommend that the bill be amended
as indicated below, and when so amended that it pass. Amend by striking out all after the enacting clause
and inserting the following: "That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to enter the name of William Clawson as a private of Company I, Fourth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry, upon the rolls of said company, mustered into the service August 2, 1861, and honorably mustered out August 8, 1863, and to issue to him an honorable discharge accordingly; and said Clawson shall be paid all the pay, allowances, and bounties due to a soldier regularly serving in said company between the dates aforesaid." |