News came that the staff would be paid off. All went to the Fort
to sign pay-rolls. Returned to dinner. Rode the Major's horse. Saw a tame
buffalo. Quite a curiosity. Sergeants receive only $17 per month — a joke on
their extra stripes.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 10
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