Chap. 815.—An ACT to place the name of W. W. Mink, of Lee county, on the
pension list. .

Approved March 4, 1896.

Whereas W. W. Mink, of Lee county, Virginia, was a member ot
company K, of General A. L. Pridemore’s regiment, of the Confede
rate army, and was badly wounded by a sabre cut across the head ir
an engagement with the Federal forces at Cumberland Gap on the
twenty-ninth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three
being there captured and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and thence tc
Fort Delaware, where he remained until the surrender; and

Whereas the said Mink, who is very poor and has a family, stil!
suffers severely from this wound, and also from bone scurvy con:
tracted in prison, which disabilities practically disable him from
manual labor: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
auditor of public accounts be directed to place the name of W. W.
Mink on the pension list as entitled to the pension provided by law
for those soldiers who were partially disabled by wounds received
and disabilities incurred in the service.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.