Chap. 604.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Covington, widow of a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 8, 1896.

Whereas George Covington, a private in company K (Charlotte
rifles), eighteenth regiment Virginia volunteers, Hunter’s brigade,
Pickett’s division, and was severely wounded near Newberne, North
Carolina, in spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by a shell
from a Federal gunboat, and which wound caused him to be totally
disabled and to be discharged from the army and his death at his
home in Charlotte county after the close of the war, and it appears
from the affidavits and certificates of prominent citizens of the said
county that his wife, Elizabeth Covington, is now a widow, old, crip-
pled and helpless with no property or income, and was married to the
said George Covington before the war, and that she receives no other
pension and holds no office, Federal or state; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon
the proof of the alleged facta before the county court of Charlotte,
the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and directed to
place the name of Elizabeth Covington on the pension rolls as enti-
tled to a pension as widow of a soldier killed in the late war between
the states.

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