The sick in the hospitals are getting along well. Part of
the men here received two months' pay today, $32.00. The pay of soldiers has
been raised to $16.00 per month since May 1, 1864.1
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1 The 32.00 I received was the
first pay I got since leaving Davenport on Sunday, April 24, 1864. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 215
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