Runkle v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of' the case: This case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of the Treasury under the Revised Statutes (§ 1063). The following are the facts as found by the court: I. April 22, 1861, the claimant was mustered in as a captain of Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as such till November 8, 1861, when he was mustered in as major. August 18, 1862, he was honorably mustered out.
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The Reporters’ statement of' the case: This case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of the Treasury under the Revised Statutes (§ 1063). The following are the facts as found by the court: I. April 22, 1861, the claimant was mustered in as a captain of Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as such till November 8, 1861, when he was mustered in as major. August 18, 1862, he was honorably mustered out. August 19,1862, he was mustered in as colonel of Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and honorably mustered out July 21,1864. August 29,1864, he accepted appointment as…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
On the 15th of December, 1870, the claimant, then major 45th U. ,S. Infantry, was on duty as disbursing officer of the Bureau of Befugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands for the State of Kentucky; which duty he had been performing, under military orders, for more than three years prior to that date.
On that day he was, by order of the President, placed on the retired list as major, but continued to perform that duty until the autumn of 1872, when he was arrested for trial before a *406general court-martial, appointed by direction of the President and…
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