It is dry and hot. I wrote a letter to father enclosing
$50.00 of the $53.00 which I received from the Government on May 31st, and in
greenbacks at that. I had $1.86 coming to me over and above the allowance the
Government makes for clothing, which is $40.00 a year.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 53
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