The Snapshots in Time Collection
Full Text of H.R. 16687, 59th Congress, 1st Session: 'A Bill Granting an Increase of Pension to Jefferson G. Turner,' Company F, 13th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (March 13, 1906)
The full text of H.R. 16687, a 1906 congressional bill granting Civil War veteran Jefferson G. Turner, late of Company F, Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, an increased pension of thirty dollars per month. Individual pension bills such as this were a common legislative mechanism for recognizing veterans' service in the decades following the Civil War. Project: 218690