same, shall be entitled to wear, on occasions of
ceremony, the distinctive army badge ordered for or
adopted by the army corps or division,
respectively, in which they served.

Approved July 25, 1868.]

Secretary Seward lying in his bed, with curtains half drawn; (p. 431)
standing at its side, Robinson struggling with Payne, who holds an
uplifted dagger in his right hand. G. Y. COFFIN. DES. (_designavit._)
PAQUET. F. (_fecit_).

GEORGE FOSTER ROBINSON was born at Hartford, Oxford County, Maine,
August 13, 1832. In 1863, he enlisted in the 8th regiment of Maine
Volunteers, and was severely wounded at Bermuda Hundred, May 20, 1864.
On the night of April 14, 1865, while acting as sick nurse to the
Honorable William H. Seward, then secretary of State, at the imminent
peril of his life, and at the cost of serious wounds, he saved Mr.
Seward from the knife of the assassin Payne. For his heroic conduct on
this occasion, Congress voted him five thousand dollars and a gold
medal. He was clerk in the Treasury Department, from June, 1865, to
August, 1866, when he resigned. He was appointed in December, 1868, to
a similar position in the quartermaster-general's office, Washington.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting a Medal to George F. Robinson._

_Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay
to George F. Robinson, late a private in the Eighth Regiment of
Maine Volunteers, the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any
money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise
appropriated.

SECTION 2. _And be it further resolved_, That the Secretary of
the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be
prepared and presented to the said George F. Robinson a gold
medal with appropriate devices and inscriptions, commemorative of
the heroic conduct of the said Robinson on the fourteenth day of
April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in saving the life of the
Honorable William H. Seward, then secretary of State of the
United States, the expense of said medal to be paid out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 1st, 1871.