5". ^* %^ \^--^^y ^0 ■'i^. -ftp •^•^'. > v^ .» t,.i^^ o , , n... %<» •^r. <1n i-^ ^ o^: y: > ' « rV ^ r^ ,<;^'^^. ^. •O-.- r> ♦ <► ^^.-^ . ■''^0^ , .1 ^-1 1^^ •\/...., ^* -, * '-' w*^ - O^ ' V » 1 - •> • o ^I' ^: :> .^V ■<<• •■V^ ;•>- r. • « 1 ^^, t'li-' <^ '^oV^ "^^ '?'> N .5^% ^o .0' < ..'^ .<2>' . * .'i^' A V \^ X^^ o. O N \ ^, .v-J^ \' i I a •^o o . * - v^ V ' • • '* a' 'bS" '^o^ ^^.^i^ i'i^' c f " • " * v^ (, ' • -^c ,n- .0 -I.- . ^<> ■^^ • o ,.■9 -^. « 35th Congress, > HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ( Report 1st Session. ^ j ]S[o. 316. ■ Cctz/lc:! .,,., , , . ; . , ,:.-^-^.. Cc'ini'i/iz^_^,_:_ ■ Oi.-i, A- oNr\ -^ WRIGHT FORE. \\\. April 16, 1858. Mr. Anderson, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the . following REPORT. The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to lohom was referred the petit ion and accompanying papers of Wright Fore, of the State of Missis- sippi, report: That the petitioner claims to have enlisted as a private in the mounted company of Captain David Smith, in Colonel Coffee's brigade of Tennessee troops, in the month of October, 1813. That in the battle of Talladega, on the 9th day of November, 1813, he was wounded in the left shoulder by a rifle ball fired from the camp of the enemy, which so disabled him as to render him unfit for duty ; he was considered dangerously wounded, and left at Fort Strother ; was carried from there to the hospital at Huntsville, Alabama, where he remained until February following, when he was sent for by his friends and taken home. John Moore, Robert Haygood, and John Rutherford, who were in the same service and company with the petitioner, testify fully to his having been wounded in the service. The Third Auditor of the Treasury, who has the custody of the rolls of the company to which the petitioner belonged, states tliat the name of Wright Fore appears on said rolls from the 24th of Septem- ber, 1813, to the 16th of May, 1814. On said roll he is noted as " wounded 9th November, 1813." John Shelby and Boyd McNairy, who sign themselves M. D., swear on the 1st of December^ 1817, that he is disabled one half by reason of said wound. J. J. Thornton and H. H. Parker, who are certified to be reputable and credible physicians, swear on the 11th of July, 1852, that said Wright Fore is disabled three-fourths. All the witnesses are certified to be men of veracity and truth. The committee are unanimous in the opinion that this is a meritorious case, and demands relief at the hands of Congress. They therefore report a bill. IZ iS9 146 <^ ,t' > V. v^ .-^^ \' V *^' ^"-^^^ ^ ;^ ^ <^ .0^- .5- r^ -^^ V J\ (J' .♦^ O- .% ^'% ■^^- :^s* u^- O > -V <<*\ ^^ ^. •^o o t o ' e , ' , U .0' •> ,< " 4' ■^^. .^ '.<^^.^'. '^ f .^^ i . ^. * \ O , , u .' 9 ,'''-' .^ •7*. l^ V , . . , it O H, ^ o . » * A .0^'. 1' ^-t. .0 .^ ^^ ' • - I y^^ o \//f^ -^^S£.^— — _-^ <> \il \\?RT IJ V BOOK61NDISC H Gfaorvilte Pa H . Jan • fet ISS? B ^-^^^-^ ■*>. ;^