¶For 62 years one John Tracy, aged 90, of Pittsburgh, has officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension....
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