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Fort Smith New Era - January 30, 1864, p. 2, c. 2
Ordered to be Paid
The Secretary of War has ordered that Ordnance Sergeants Franklin Rounds and C. P. Swift, U.S.A., shall be paid off the same as other prisoners of war. These veterans of nearly thirty years service in the regular army of the United States, were ordered by their respective commanding officers to remain at their posts, when the latter were abandoned in the spring of 1861. Sergeant Rounds was stationed at Fort Arbuckle, and Sergeant Swift at this place. They remained prisoners of war, until the re-occupation of this country by the Federal army. Sergeant Rounds, was in the battle of San Jacinto, and nearly every important engagement in the Mexican war. -- Sergeant Swift, born in the army, to which also his father belonged, commenced his military career in the old Florida war. They have seen more service than ordinarily falls to the lot of man, and we think that it would be no more than an act of justice, to raise them to the rank of commissioned officers in the regular army. We congratulate them on the comfortable pile of 'greenbacks,' which they will soon receive from Uncle Samuel's Disbursing Agent.

Submitted by:

Michael Rounds (merounds@spam.gmail.com)