[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3412 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3412

To authorize and request the President to issue a posthumous commission 
in the regular Army to Milton Holland, who, while sergeant major of the 
5th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, was awarded the Medal of 
               Honor for gallantry during the Civil War.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2005

Mr. Ney (for himself, Mr. Strickland, Mr. Butterfield, and Mr. Cantor) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize and request the President to issue a posthumous commission 
in the regular Army to Milton Holland, who, while sergeant major of the 
5th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, was awarded the Medal of 
               Honor for gallantry during the Civil War.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUEST FOR POSTHUMOUS APPOINTMENT OF MILTON HOLLAND AS A 
              COMMISSIONED OFFICER IN THE ARMY.

    (a) Request.--The President is authorized and requested to issue, 
or have issued, a posthumous commission in the grade of captain in the 
regular Army in the name of Milton Holland, who, while sergeant major 
of the 5th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, was awarded the 
Medal of Honor in recognition of his action on September 29, 1864, 
during the Battle of Chapin's Farm, Virginia, when, as the citation for 
the medal states, Sergeant Major Holland ``took command of Company C, 
after all the officers had been killed or wounded, and gallantly led 
it''.
    (b) Treatment of Benefits.--The provisions of section 1523 of title 
10, United States Code, apply in the case of a commission issued as 
requested in subsection (a).
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