,

CONGRESS

DANIEL NICKEL.

[To accompany bill H. R. No. 778.]

FEBRUARY 23, 1855.

Mr. HENDRICKS, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the

following

REPORT.

The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Daniel Nickel, report:

That the said petitioner served in the Mexican war under the command of General Lane, and behaved gallantly at Huamantla and other engagements with the enemy; that he was wounded and is now disabled by his wounds; and whilst in the service in Mexico he contracted diarrhoea, which is now chronic, and that he is wholly disabled The committee report a bill for his relief.

CONGRESS

GEORGE W. WHITTEN.

[To accompany bill H. R. No. 780.]

FEBRUARY 23, 1855.

Mr. A. STUART, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the

following

REPORT.

Mr. Andrew Stewart, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition and papers of George W. Whitten, asks leave to

report:

That said Whitten enlisted in Captain Oliver Herrick's company, Colonel Henry McCobb's regiment, United States army, on 14th December, 1812. On the 3d of June following he was ordered on board the Growler, Captain Sidney Smith, and was in the engagement with the enemy's flotilla on the river Sorel, near Isle Aux Naux, received a wound from a musket ball in said engagement, and was taken prisoner. The ball entered the posterior part of the right thigh, and came out about an inch above the knee. The evidence of the surgeons is that he is threefourths disabled; and the above facts being well substantiated, and being satisfied that the present disability is in consequence of the wound, your committee ask leave to introduce a bill.