Excerpt from Official Communications Between the War Department and Lieut. Colonel John Pulford, U. S. Army: Related to His Re-Instatement as a Colonel on the Retired List, Together With the Report of the Military Committees of the Senate House of Representatives of the United States, Accompanied by Bills to Restore Him to His Former Rank of Colonel, U. S. Arm
Sir: I have the honor to apply to be re-instated as a Colonel on the retired list, as I was a Colonel in command of the Fifth Michigan Infantry Volunteers; also in temporary command of the first line of battle of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, and engaged at the battle of Boyd-town Plank Road, Virginia, October 27th, 1864, when I received one of the six wounds which formed a part of the record of the Retiring Board in my case; and would ask that the testimony of the examining surgeons of said Board be examined, wherein I think they state (in answer to questions) that "either wound is "enough to retire him on. I think the wound in the back disables "him most now."
My case seems to be an exceptive one, as I had been in permanent command of a regiment for nearly a year and a half prior to receiving the wound, while holding the rank of Colonel, as the regiment had not been commanded by its Colonel for over two years. The officer who had been made Colonel, July 18th, 1862, had been wounded at the battle of Williamsburg, Va, May 5th, 1862, on account of which he never rejoined the regiment for duty, although while absent he had been promoted to the Colonelcy, and held this rank over the officers who were in command of the regiment in active field service for more than two years, two of whom were killed in action - Lieut.-Col. John Gilluley, at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13th, 1862, and Lieut.-Col. E. T. Sherlock, at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3d, 1863. There was also several officers wounded while doing this officer"s duty in command of the regiment.
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