To-day we were mustered for two months' pay, and of course we were happy till our ardor was cooled by our captain, who told us it might ...

Drew flour this morning for the first time in eight months. We are to stay here to-day and draw ten months' pay. Our pay-rolls are in th...

morning clear air and bracing. Drilling from 6 to 7 O'clock. to day is Pay Day Comps. A. & E. are paid first—as they are going off o...

Started at six A.M., and arrived in camp at Potomac Creek at eleven o'clock. Time occupied in once more fixing up our old quarters, that...

The paymaster looked in on us. He is the first we have had any dealings with, and we are glad he came, for most of "E" have been ...

We went to bed late last night, but had to get up at the regular time this morning. It was hard work after having had a holiday to strike in...

McNairy's Battalion drew five months' pay, from the 1st of August to December 31st, 1861. Each private drew twenty-four dollars per ...

In camp in Pleasant Valley all day. Mustered for two months' pay. SOURCE: John Lord Parker,  Henry Wilson's Regiment: History of t...

Our regiment has received two months pay to-day, and to-night all are boisterously happy. We had been notified to have our muster-rolls read...

April 27. Two or three months ago I wrote you of a fearful monomania among our line officers, called "Muster and Pay Rolls." The...

Rumor has it that the regiment will be paid off to-day, and for once rumor proves correct. Captain Johnson receives orders to report with hi...

Uncle Sam's cashier has arrived at last, and we have been paid for two months' service. The married men are quite anxious to send th...

Up to to-day nothing new. Our regiment was paid off to-day, we receiving one month's wages-eleven dollars for a private, which I have th...

Paymaster Major Sherman arrives to-day, and in the afternoon commences to pay the regiment; pays the field officers and staff, and non-comm...

To-day the Paymaster finishes paying the regiment. The men are now flush with the “collaterals” and in consequence the sutlers and swindlers...

Immediately after breakfast packed up and went around to bid my friends goodbye. Felt sad as well as happy. God bless the friends at Benton...

Got supper in town last night. It began to rain about 10 o'clock p. m. and continued to hard all night. I stayed at the National Hotel;...

Headquarters 2 d Brigade, S. C. Beaufort, S. C. Dec. 20th, 1861. My dear Mother: Here it is almost Christmas, but there is no hop...

muddy Branch Camp, Camp Near Seneca, November 1, 1861. You have your choice of dates, for I think our camp lies between the two, and ...

Meridian Hill, Washington. Aug. 11th, 1861. My dear Mother: I have been overjoyed by a visit from Hunt, who has now probably return...