July 2,1886. CHAP. 616.—An act granting a pension to Gilbert A. Philips.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, the name of Gilbert A. Philips, of Louisville, Kentucky, who was appointed a quartermaster in the United States Army in eighteen hundred and sixty-one, by order of General William Nelson.
Approved, July 2, 1880.
Source: Statutes of the United States of America, passed at the First Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress, 1885-1886, by the Government Printing Office, 1886; Pg. 174