It also appears from the records that after his discharge from
the. Army, and on the 3d day of February, 1865, he enlisted as landsman
in the United States Navy, and served in that branch of the service for
three years.
A medical examination in May, 1885, disclosed the appearance of a
gunshot wound in the right breast, which is thus described:
The missile struck the seventh rib of right side and glanced off,
leaving a horizontal scar 2-1/4 inches long and one-half inch wide,
deeply depressed and firmly adherent.
I credit this claimant with being a good soldier, and I am willing to
believe that his insistence upon a greater pension than that already
allowed by the Pension Bureau, under liberal general laws, enacted for
the benefit of himself and all his comrades, is the result of the
demoralization produced by ill-advised special legislation on the
subject.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 4, 1886_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 5389, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Ann Kinney."
This beneficiary applied for a pension in 1877 as the widow of Edward
Kinney, alleging that he died September 5, 1875, from the effects of a
wound received in the Army. He enlisted November 4, 1861, and was
discharged July 28, 1862, on account of a gunshot wound in his left
elbow, for which wound he was pensioned in the year 1865.
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