Veto Message
06/22/1886
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There is no record of any disability during his service.
It can hardly be supposed that the trouble with his ears caused the soldier to fall a victim to pneumonia.
Nothing appears which satisfactorily connects this injury, which was received in November, 1864, with death from consumption in 1876.
an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol