THE STATE OF OHIO,

Summit County, 88:

Thomas McEbright, of the city of Akron, and State of Ohio, being first duly sworn, upon his oath says that he has been a practicing physician and surgeon for the last twenty-two years; that he is now a pension-surgeon by appointment of the Pension Bureau, and was surgeon of the Eighth Ohio Volunteers for over two years; that affiant has been intimately acquainted with Alvin C. Voris, late colonel of the Sixty-seventh Ohio Volunteers and brevet major-general United States Volunteers, since his final discharge in December, 1865. Affiant says he also attended said Voris as his physician and surgeon for several months last past, and had charge of the preliminary treatment of said Voris preparatory to the operation hereinafter stated, and was his attending physician from the time of said operation to this date; was thus employed for a period of more than four months. Said Voris was operated on for stone in the bladder by Dr. J. W. Hamilton, of the city of Columbus, Ohio, and myself, on the 25th of November, 1873. From the time of his final discharge to the fall of 1872 he was afflicted more or less with trouble and inconvenience in his lower extremities, pain and lameness in his back, by times incapacitating him for business of any kind. His legs at times were enfeebled to a degree amounting to paralysis, with a great deal of pain above the bulus or pubic bone; that for about eighteen months prior to the said operation he had great distress in the region of the bladder, accompanied by frequent and exceedingly painful calls to urinate. He had, in fact, all the symptoms of stone in the bladder. On the 25th of November, 1873, he was operated on for stone by the lateral operation. We found and removed a foreign body from the bladder, which proved to be a leaden bullet-a minie ball, less about one-fourth part thereof, of irregular form, with sharp angles, and weighing one and one-eighth ounces, with slightly increased weight from earthy deposits thereon. Affiant says that during the last eighteen months the disability amounted to total, and since December, 1865, to the fall of 1872, to nearly the same degree.

THOMAS MCEBRIGHT, M. D.

Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 2d day of March, A. D. 1874. R. P. MARVIN, Notary Public,

1st Session.

No. 281.

MARY A. S. LOOMIS.

MARCH 27, 1874.-Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be

printed.

Mr. MARTIN, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the

following REPORT:

[To accompany bill H. R. 2672.]

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mary A. S. Loomis, widow of Col. Gustavus Loomis, of the United States Army, respectfully report:

That we find that said Gustavus Loomis served in the United States Army for sixty-one years with marked distinction and great efficiency; that he died of old age on the 5th day of March, 1872, leaving petitioner, his widow, who is now seventy-one years of age, in indigent circumstances.

In view of the distinguished, long, and faithful services of said soldier, of the helpless condition and circumstances of his aged widow, your committee report favorable, and recommend the passage of a special act granting petitioner a pension at the rate of $30 per month from the passage of the same.

Attention is called to the military record of said soldier, hereto attached, which is made part of this report:

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, April 8, 1872. Military history of Gustavus Loomis, late of the United States Army, as shown by the files of this Office:

Graduated at the United States Military Academy and appointed second lieutenant Light Artillery, March 1, 1811; captain and assistant deputy quartermaster, April 19, 1813; first lieutenant Light Artillery, May 5, 1813; transferred to Corps of Artillery, May 12, 1814; captain, April 7, 1819; transferred to First Infantry, June 1, 1821; major Second Infantry, July 7, 1838; lieutenant-colonel Sixth Infantry, September 22, 1840; colonel Fifth Infantry, March 9, 1851; retired, June 1, 1863; brevetted major April 7, 1829, for faithful service ten years in one grade; brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, for long and faithful services in the Army.

Services.-In garrison at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, 1811-'12; in the war of 1812-15 with Great Britain, in garrison in New York Harbor, 1812-'13, and on the Niagara frontier, 1813, being engaged in the capture of Fort George, Upper Canada, May 27, 1813, and was taken prisoner at the surprise of Fort Niagara, N. Y., December 19, 1813; on ordnance duty, 1815-'17; in garrison at New York Harbor, 1817-19; on coast survey, 1819-20; on recruiting service, 1820; in garrison at Fort Gadsden, Florida, 1820-21, and Baton Rouge, La., 1821-225; in Creek Nation, 1825-26; in garrison at Cantonment Clinch, Fla., 1826-27, and New Orleans, La., 1827-'28; on recruiting service, 1828-30; in garrison at Fort Crawford, Wisconsin, 1830-'32, and 1832-33, during the Black Hawk campaign; on detached service, February 8, to June 19, 1833; on recruiting service, 1833-34; on frontier duty at Fort Snelling, Minn., 1834-36, Fort Crawford, Wisconsin, 1836-237, and Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1837 ; in the Florida campaign, 1837-'42, participating in the battle of Okee-cho-bee, Decem

ber 25, 1837; on frontier duty at Fort Towson, Indian Territory, 1842-'43; Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1843-'44; Fort Towson, Indian Territory, 1845-'46; and Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, 1846-'48; in the war with Mexico, 1848; in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1848; Fort Crawford, Wisconsin, 1848; and Saint Louis, Mo., 1848-49; on frontier duty at Fort Snelling, Minn., 1849-'50, and Fort Laramie, Dak., 1850; superintendent general recruiting service October 1, 1850, to July 15, 1851; on frontier duty at Fort Belknap, Texas, 1852-'53; Fort McIntosh, Texas, 1853-'54; and Ringgold Barracks, Texas, 1854-55; in Florida hostilities against the Seminole Indians, 1856-58, being in command of the Department of Florida, April 27, 1857, to July 16, 1858; on leave of absence, 1858-61; on volunteer mustering duty, April 18 to August 19, 1861; superintendent of general-recruiting service at Fort Columbus, New York, August 19, 1861, to August 10, 1864; on court-martial duty, 1864, to June, 1869; unemployed to March 5, 1872, when he died at Stratford, Conn.

HANNAH B. EATON.

MARCH 27, 1874.-Committed to a Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be

printed.

Mr. BARRY, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the

following REPORT:

[To accompany bill H. R. 2673.]

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Hannah B. Eaton, of Kingsville, Ohio, to have her name restored to the pension-rolls, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report:

That on July 3, 1871, a pension was allowed the petitioner at the rate of $8 per month, from the 1st day of July, 1865, the date of the soldier's death, to December 4, 1872, when the Pension-Office learned that the deceased soldier, Charles Eaton, was the adopted son, and therefore properly dropped the name of the mother from the pension-rolls. It appears that Mrs. Eaton adopted Charles when he was three weeks old, in the place of an infant lost by her; that the parents of Charles both died; that he took the name of Eaton and was treated always in all respects as an own son, and supported Mrs. Eaton as his own mother, giving her his bounty-money and sending her his wages as a soldier; also, that there is no other person entitled to a pension on account of this soldier's death; that there is no evidence of attempt at fraud in the case, the mother having informed the agent when making the application that her son was adopted when an infant, and was informed that it was all the same; and that the mother is in very needy circumstances.

Your committee therefore recommend that the name of Hannah B. Eaton be restored to the pension-rolls to date from December 4, 1872, the date when her name was dropped.