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56n CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
1st Session. No. 246.
JAMES CRAWLEY.
FEBRUARY 8, 1900.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. GRAFr, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 6284.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 6284) for the relief of James Crawley, submit the following
report:
This soldier, now 60 years of age, served as a private in Company I,
Seventh Illinois Volunteers, from October 11, 1861, to May 25, 1865,
and as first lieutenant of same company and regiment from May 26,
1865 (to date from November 1, 1864), to July 9, 1865. He was a pris-
oner of war from October 5, 1864, to February 26, 1865, when paroled.
He received a wound of left arm at Pittsburg Landing April 6, 1862,
and contracted scurvy, resulting in disease of mouth, while a prisoner
of war at Florence, S. C., and is now a pensioner at $14.25 for said
disabilities.
His claim for increase of pension, filed in November, 1897, in which
he alleges that the scurvy affected his joints and limbs and makes him
so lame that he can hardly walk, was rejected in September, 1899, upon
the ground that his disabilities of service origin did not entitle him to
a rating in excess of $14.25 per month, and that disease of stomach and
limbs was not shown.
The last medical examination, in June, 1898, rated him $17 on account
of the wound, and also found a scar of a compound fracture of the
left leg above the ankle, for which rated $6. This fracture, according
to claimant's statement to the surgeons, was caused in 1891 by being
thrown under a load of coal, and the soldier attributes this to a trouble
with his left knee which he had since service.
He claimed that the scurvy affected both his groins and legs, and
furnished proof tending to show such condition in service, but the
only leg trouble found prior to the time of the fracture by the load of
coal was tenderness of skin of feet, showing a tendency to ulceration.
While it is perhaps not susceptible of proof that the fracture of the
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