Chap. 1082.—An ACT for the relief of Middleton W. Coger, a Confederate
soldier.
As Approved March 7, 1900.
Whereas Middleton W. Coger, of Henry county, was a true and loyal
Confederate soldier of company G, forty-second Virginia regiment,
volunteered at the commencement and continued to serve during the
entire war between the states; and
Whereas he was wounded at Chancellorsville, bones in his feet being
shot out by a shell and a rib broken; and
Whereas he is now seventy-seven years old and a resident of Virginia,
and has no property of any material value and feels very much the
effects of the said wounds and exposure in the war; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That upon proof
of the foregoing facts before the county court of He mry county, and the
certificate of the same to the auditor of public accounts, the said auditor
shall place the name of the said Middleton W. Coger upon the pension
roll of the state and pay him annually the sum ‘of fifteen dollars on
am after the first day of April, nineteen hundred.
This act shall be in force from its passage.