We received our first month's pay today. Each man in Company
E received pay for twenty-six days of service in the month of October,
amounting to $11.25, a little less than a full month's pay. I received my first
Government pay as a soldier in the United States service, getting a ten-dollar
gold piece1 and one dollar and twenty-five cents in silver. I
expressed $10.00 home.
1This was the first gold I had seen for months
and, as it proved, the last I saw during the war. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 23
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