They reported the cases to the House. and the House generously passed bills for some of those men. and they are pensioners today on the generosity of the Government. which recognized the fact of their service to the country. although technically they were not regularly mustered in. but having contracted disease in theservice. it was believed the Government owed to them a debt of gratitude if not of cash. As to this man. I have examined some papers not before the House touching on this case. I find he was going down to raise aregimentin Tennessee at the time the Government needed troops there. and that regiment would necessarily have to be composed of refugees. He went out and spent days and months on duty under the promise that he was to be commissioned colonel of the regiment. when he was taken ill. He did not get any commission and he did not receive a dollar of cornpensation for the service he had rendered.
Keywords matched
refugees