We were relieved at six o'clock P. M., by Company A, and
learned from them that the regiment was being paid off. We got our pay-rolls
signed that night, and (Aug. 21st) were paid this morning, each man receiving
eighteen dollars and seventy-four cents pay, up to the 30th of June. I got my
full pay of one hundred and eight dollars a month, one hundred and eighty-four
dollars and forty-five cents. We are paid again in less than a month, when I
shall get two hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety cents. It makes me feel
quite flush to see so much gold, all 1861 pieces. At twelve o'clock, noon, the
regiment started to join our brigade and marched six miles to Jefferson, a very
pretty town, where we camped for the night.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 18-9
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