Received four
months' pay, which was of the greatest service to the officers and men and put
all in a good humor. Sutlers shops were patronized extensively and the express
office crowded with soldiers sending money to the loved ones at home. On the
other side, gambling is carried on extensively till the sharpers have fleeced
the green ones out of their last cent. Officers try their best to prevent it, but
the men will steal away whenever they can get a chance. It is about as hard to
keep them from gambling as getting whisky, and where an officer could not get a
drop men can get all they want.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 12
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