Evening journal., 1898-06-22
.FuII Sci Of Teeth. $500
DELAWAREANS' PENSIONS
MATTER IN DISPUTE FOR SEVERAL
YEARS SETTLED.

MAT 7 Err IN DISPUTE FOR SEVERAL
YEARS SETTLED.
QUESTION OF THE STATUS OF
THE FIFTH DELAWARE VoLUN-
TEERS SETTLED THROUGH THE
EFFORTS OF GENERAL JOHN p.
DO'NATIOE.
General John P. Donahoe has re-
ceived, through Senator Boies Pen
rose, from Colonel F. C. Ainsworth,
chief of the Record and Pension office.
letter which is of Importance to hun
dreds of persons in Delaware, as it re-
lates to the Fifth and Sixth Infantry
Regiments of Delaware, which have
been in dispute in the pension office
for many years, 1t having been held
that the survivors and their heirs
were not entitled to pensions. The
communication is as follows:
United States Senate, Washington, d.
c., June is, 1898.
General John P. Donahoe, Wilmington,
Delaware.
Dear Sir: 1 enclose herewith, In ac-
cordance with your request, the mill
tary record Of Charles Beddls, the re-
ceipt Of which kindly acknowledge.
Yours truly,
BOIES PENROSE.
Record and Pension Office, War De
partment, Washington City, June
II, 1898.
Hon. Boies Penrose, United States Sen
ate.
Sir: In reply to your letter Of yester-
day, received to-day, in which you re-
quest to he furnished with the military
record OF Charles iBeddis, late OF Com
pany D, Fifth Delaware Infantry, L
have the honor to inform you that, as
shown by the records, Charles Beddis
was enrolled and mustered into SER
vice November l, 1862, as a private in
Company d, Fifth Delaware Infantry,
for the period Of nine months, and was
mustered out Of service with the com
pany, August 12, 1868, at DuPont's
Mills, Delaware.
The Fifth Delaware Infantry was or
ganized and mustered into service for
special duty in the State Of Delaware,
with the condition that the officers and
men were to receive pay only for the
time they were actually on duty. After
its muster into service the regiment
was disbanded and the members there
Of were dismissed to their homes TO
await a call for service. The regiment
was called into active service by order
Of Alajor-G General r. c. Schenck, COM
manding the Eighth Armp Corps, in
June, 1863, and the muster-out rolls
show the period Of service with which
each man was credited, Private Beddie
being credited on the muster-out roll Of
his company with service from June 19
1868, from which date he was mustered
for pay.
The service of this regiment was
therefore, rendered under a special
contract, which was in force for the
period Of nine months from the date oi
muster-in, the officers and men being
bound for that period to perform ser
vice for the government, provided they
were called upon to do so, and 1t has
always been held by this department
that they were in the service Of the
United States only from the dates OF
, which they were called upon to perform
active military drty.
The question as to the status OF tbs
Fifth Delaware Volunteers, and that o
the sixth Regiment, which was organ
lied under the same circumstances an'
conditions, was carefully considered b!
the assistant secretary Of war in 1891
when theprevious rulings of the depart
ment, as stated above, were affirmed.
Very respectfully,
f. c. AINSWO2TH,
Colonel U. S. Army, Chief, Record AM
r,o,.-iov Offipa