United States v. Lalone

GeesiiaM, J.,

(orally.) Joseph Lalone was mustered into the military service of the United States as a private soldier late in the summer or during the fall of 1864, and sent, to the first Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, which was then stationed somewhere on the Potomac river, where he contracted ague. He was discharged in the summer of 1865, and went to his home in Wisconsin, still suffering from that disease. In 1888, on an application filed in 1880, Lalone obtained a pension on tiro ground that after his discharge he was paralyzed, the paralysis resulting from the ague contracted in the service.…