Volume 15
Private Law 40–LXIX
granting back Pension to Edmund W. Wandell, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
Approved March 1, 1869
Statutory text
An Act
granting back Pension to Edmund W. Wandell, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
Preamble.
Whereas the said Edmund W. Wandell entered as a private in company I, first regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war with Mexico, and served to the close of that war in eighteen hundred and forty-eight, when he received an honorable discharge; that owing to disease contracted in said service his name in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four was placed upon the pension rolls at the rate of eight dollars per month; that in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, he raised a company and was commissioned as captain of company G, of the one hundred and forty-third regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers, in the war of eighteen hundred and sixty-one ; that on the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, he was honorably discharged for disability contracted in the Mexican war, and on application his pension was restored, but only from February, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, instead of from date of his discharge: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sixth section of the act of Congress entitled “An act relating to pensions,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, made applicable to the case of said Edmund W. Wandell.
Approved, .