Juniata County PA Archives Military Records.....THOMPSON, James B. January 15 1872 Civilwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Anne Stone astone3988@aol.com December 15, 2004, 5:13 pm Invalid Pension Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 42th Congress, 2nd Session Library of Congress on line ----------------------------------------------------- Committee: Committee on Invalid Pensions January 15, 1872 January 15, 1872 Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Packer, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of James B. Thompson, captain Company F, One hundred and ninetieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Whereas James B. Thompson, of Company F, First Pennsylvania Rifles, was captured at Bethesda Church, Virginia, on the thirtieth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, while engaged in battle, and in the line of his duty; and, Whereas the said James B. Thompson endured the horrors and privations of Andersonville and other Southern prisons, for a period of nearly seven months, making different attempts to escape, having been once run down and recaptured by the hounds, and finally escaped and reached the Union lines at Atlanta, Georgia, after traveling one whole month, entirely by night; and Whereas on the sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the said James B. Thompson was commissioned a first lieutenant in Company F, One hundred and ninetieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, to fill an original vacancy, and was further commissioned on the nineteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as captain in the same company and regiment, to fill an original vacancy, he being at the time of the issuing of both commissions absent as a prisoner of war in the hands of the enemy; and Whereas the failure of the said James B. Thompson to be mustered under the said commissions; was through no fault or neglect of his own, but owing to the fact of his being held as a prisoner of war: Therefore, e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress_____ That the proper disbursing officers of the United States and they are hereby authorized and directed to pay to said James B. THompson, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the full pay, emoluments, allowances of a first lieutenant of infantry, in active service from June sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to September nineteenth, eighteen hundren sixty-four, and they also authorized and directed to pay the said James B. Thompson-------- Additional Comments: CIVIL WAR MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS (M-Z) THOMPSON, JAMES B. Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company G, 1st Pennsylvania Rifles. Place and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July 1863. Entered service at: Perrysville, Pa. Birth: Juniata County, Pa. Date of issue: 1 December 1864. Citation: Capture of flag of 15th Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.). This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb