Saturday, September 1, 2012

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, November 9, 1861


We received our State pay today. I got $20.60 in paper money, thus losing only about twenty-five cents on the dollar. I served forty-five days under the State.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 17

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