The Eleventh Iowa received eight months' pay, besides
$100.00 of bounty money. I received $243.45, $34.00 of it being clothing money.1
I expressed $105.00 home, John D. Moore sending some with mine. The boys of
Company E settled for their year's clothing. The furloughed men started for
their homes this evening.
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1 When a soldier did not draw all the clothing
the Government allowed him, he was allowed the money instead. Sergeants were
allowed more than privates, receiving $20 per month. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 284
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