46-3Invalid PensionsReport : Petition of P. Grattan. [1982] "Grattan massacre" of 1854 near Fort Laramie, Nebraska Teritory.1881-3

House of Representatives Report No. 162, 46th Congress, 3rd Session (1881)

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46TH CONGREss, t HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. · 3d Session. .~ PETER GRATTAN. { REPOR'r No. 162. :FEBRUAHY 4, 1H81.-Committed to the Corrimittee of the Whole House aud ordered to be printed. Mr. RAY, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the fol· lowing · REPORT: [To accompany bill H. R. 1830.] The Oomm·ittee on Inva,lid Pensions~ to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1830) granting a pension to Peter Grattan, father of John L. Grattan, late second lieutenant Company G, Sixth Regiment United States In-fantry, having had the same 'ttnder consideration, beg leave to submit .the following report : It appears, from the evidence filed with your committee, that the peti-tioner's only son, John L. Grattan, graduated at the Military Academy at West Point in 185:-3; was appointed second lieutenant Company G, Sixth Regiment United States Infantry, and stationed at Fort Laramie, then in Nebraska Territory, on or about August 19, 1854. That, in obe-dience to orders of Lieut. Hugh B. Flemming, acting commander of the post, I.~ieutenant Grattan, with twenty-nine men, was sent out to hold a parley with a large body of Indians threatening the fort; that, in the execution of his orders, he and the entire command with him were mas-sacred by the Indians on that day. The mother of Lieutenant Grattan died June 25, 1835, and his father, the petitioner, now seventy-nine years of age, asks relief from the governm~nt in the way of a pension, for the services of his only son, of whom he has been so long bereft. It appears that the son, during his lifetime, contributed of his means to the father's support, at one time sending him an entire month's pay. There is everything in the case to recommend it to the favorable and speedy action of Congress, and your committee, therefore, report favor-ably upon the prayer of the petitioner, and recommend the passage of the bill (H. R. 1830) granting a pension to Peter Grattan, father of John L. Grattan, late second lieutenant of Company G, Sixth Regiment Unite<l States Infantry. 0 

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