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58TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
3d Session. No. 2946.
JAMES P. WOLVERTON.
Dnimmn 7, 1904.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. GrBsoN, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 14936.]
The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 14936) granting an increase of pension to James P. Wolverton,
submit the following report:
The bill proposes to increase the pension of the soldier named therein
to $12 per month.
The records of the War Department show that the soldier named in
the bill, now 59 years of age, served as corporal and sergeant in Com-
pany G, Sixth Tennessee Cavalry, from September 15, 1862, to July 1,
1865, when honorably discharged; that he was captured at Union City
Tenn., April 1, 1864, and paroled on or about April 21, 1865, and
that he survived the disaster of the steamer Sultana April 27, 1864.
The medical records of the War Department show that he was
under treatment for two days in general hospital at Memphis, Tenn.,
in April, 1865, for exhaustion-the result of the explosion of the
steamer Sultana.
He is now pensioned under the general law at $14 per month on
account of disease of eyes and rheumatism.
A claimu for increase of pension, filed in May, 1902, in which the
soldier alleged mitral insufficiency and paralysis agitans as results of
rheumatism, was rejected in June, 1903, upon the ground that the
rating of $14 per month was fully commensurate with the degree of
disability arising from the pensioned causes; that the alleged mitral
insufficiency was not shown to exist, and that paralysis agitans could
not be accepted as a result.
A claim on account of partial loss of hearing was rejected in 1883,
upon the ground that said disease was not incurred in line of duty,
but was incurred while he was returning from rebel prison, having
been captured while at home on leave of absence.
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