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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
various gentlemen who had resigned have been received as surgeons. But as Dr. Garnett did not resign his commission in consequence of the secession of his State, the act does not embrace his case. He asked that the act be so amended as to embrace his case. I believe, however, he stands alone in this category. It will be but an act of justice to thus recognize the merits and services of this gentleman. I move the memorial be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. So ordered. Mr. Seddon, of Virginia, offered the following: Resolved, by Congress, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into and report on the expediency of prescribing by law, while the facts, are fresh and susceptible of proof, some uniform mode of taking, authenticating and preserving the evidence of the abduction or reception, by the enemy, of slaves owned by any of the Confederate States, as also of the age, sex and value of said slaves, to the end that indemnity may be hereaft