Thursday, October 2, 2014

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, December 3, 1863


I went out on picket this morning. An order was read on parade this evening, announcing that all soldiers who will re-enlist for three years or during the war will be enrolled in the Veterans' Corps, and receive a bounty of $400.00 and a thirty-day furlough. Some of the boys signed their names at once.1
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1 I was not yet in from picket and so knew nothing of what was going on.—A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 156

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