51st Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report 2037. PHILLIP H EMMERT. May 20, 1890 - committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. GOODNIGHT, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, submitted the following REPORT: [To accompany H.R. 1738]. "The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1738) granting a pension to PHILLIP H EMMERT, of Tompkinsville, Ky., submit the following report: Applicant enlisted September, 1861; was honorably discharged from Company D, Twenty-third Kentucky Volunteers, December, 1865. Hospital records show treatment in June, 1865, without showing diagnosis, and also October and November for intermittent fever, and August, 1865, treated for bite of spider, or tarantula, in Texas, while in hospital; comrades prove also that he received small wound in the left knee at Kenesaw Mountain, June, 1864; this fact is proved beyond question, and that it disables him til this day. It is also proven by many reputable men that EMMERT was a sound man when he enlisted, and that since his discharge and return he has been unable for manual labor continually, from one-half to three-fourths of normal capacity; that such disability arises from chronic diarrhea, shell wound, and from complaint of left breast, shoulder, and arm, from bite of tarantula, which members are proven to have withered, by Dr. SIMS, a most excellent doctor and gentleman, as well as by lay evidence. A number of his comrades testify that these afflictions were incurred in line of duty, and this satisfactorilly [sic] appears from the testimony of Surgeon A. M MORRISON, and other physicians; Surgeon MORRISON also testifying that the applicant was unable for any sort of service when discharged. "It seems clear to your committee that the soldier was sound when he entered the service; that he has sustained a wound in the leg which is disabling; incurred chronic diarrhea, which also disables, and which has been continuous since discharge, and that the injury from spider bite is severe and constitutional, as appears also from examining-board reports. Your committee therefore report the bill back with favorable recommendation, and ask its passage." SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html