Chap. 1030.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. Virginia F. Gayle, the widow of a
Confederate soldier.

Approved March 7, 1900.

Whereas John Z. Gayle, a true and loyal soldier in the Confederate
my, and private of Woolfolk’s battery, of Alexander’s battalion of
tillery, was twice badly wounded on the second day of July, eighteen
indred and sixty-three, in the battle of Gettysburg, and was left on
e field supposed to be mortally wounded and fell into the hands of the
wemy and kept a prisoner for nine months, and after being exchanged,
rrendered at Appomattox court-house in eighteen hundred and sixty-
e; and

Whereas said wounds completely disabled him for a time and greatly
ortened his life from the effects’ of which wounds he died, but not
itil after the war;

Whereas his widow, Mistress Virginia F. Gayle, of Gloucester county.
irginia, is poor and in needy circumstances, and is, by reason of her
asband’s death occurring after the war, debarred from the relief pro:
ded by law for the widows of Confederate soldiers killed during the
ar, though he received the wounds which shortened his life in battle
erefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if Mistres:
irginia F. Gayle shall produce to the auditor of public accounts o:
irginia a certificate of the county court of Gloucester to the truth
f the facts set forth above, the said auditor of public accounts is hereby
uthorized and directed to place the name of Mistress Virginia F. Gayl
pon the pension rolls, and pay her the sum of thirty dollars annually

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

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