Mr. Justice CLIFFORD stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.
Congress provided, by the fourth section of the act of the third of March, 1865, that all officers of volunteers now in commission, below the rank of brigadier-general, who shall continue in the military service to the close of the war, shall be entitled to receive, upon being mustered out of said service, three months' pay proper.
Subsequent to the passage...
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