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April
17, 1858.
Mr. Chaffee, from the
Committee on Invalid
Pensions, made the
following
REPORT.
The Committee on Invalid
Pensions, to whom was
referred the petition
of John Bonner, of
Louisiana, asking an
invalid pension for
wounds
received in the war of
1812, report :
That said John Bonner
alleges that he was
wounded by a stroke of
a cutlass across the
forehead, whilst he was
in the line of his duty
as
a private in the company
of Captain Emanuel Lee,
of the 10th
regiment of United
States infantry, in the
war of 1812. He
furnishes no
evidence of the said
wound having been
inflicted; and your
committee
have before them letters
from the Third Auditor
of the Treasury and
the Adjutant General of
the army — the
officers having charge
of the
rolls of the troops who
were in the war of 1812.
In those letters they
state that the rolls,
which are perfect, do
not show that Bonner was
wounded. In the absence
of any proof, the
committee are of the
opinion that the
memorial should not be
granted.
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