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58mH CONGREss, SENATE. REPORT
2d Session. No. 634.
HENRY P. HOWARD.
FinuARy 1, 1904.--Ordered to be printed.
Mr. PATTERSON, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT,
[To accompany S. 3413.]
The Committee on Pensions to whom was referred the bill (S. 3413)
granting a pension to Henry . Howard, have examined the same and
report:
Henry P. Howard served in the Mexican war as a clerk in the com-
missary department of the Army, under George T. Howard, captain
and acting commissary of subsistence, United States Army. His term
of service, as shown by the official records, was from September 1,
1846, to January 31, 1848. On the morning of the battle of Buena
Vista he joined Captain McCulloch's company of Texas Rangers, and
fought with great courage in that battle. His service on this occasion
is a matter of early historical mention, and was highly commended.
Capt. James Henry Carleton, of the First United States Dragoons, in
his book entitled: The Battle of Buena Vista with the Operations of
the 'Army of Occupation' for One Month, stated:
Mr. Henry Howard * * * though not attached to the Army in a military
capacity, went upon the ground and fought with great courage.
His service in that battle is also shown by the evidence of one of
the comrades of Captain McCulloch's command.
Mr. Howard received bounty land of 160 acres on. account of his
service in the Mexican war, but he can not obtain pension under the
existing laws, as his service was not that of an officer or enlisted man
of the Army. It was for this reason that his claim, which he filed at
the Bureau was rejected.
It is observed that the act of January 29, 1887, which is the original
Mexican-war service act, provides a pension to an officer or an
enlisted man who served sixty days in Mexico, on the coast or frontier
thereof, or en route thereto in the war with that nation, or was actu-
ally engaged in a battle in said war.
If the claimant had been an enlisted man, his participation in the
battle of Buena Vista would, of itself, give him a pensionable title
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