I went out on
picket this morning. An order was read on parade this evening, announcing that
all soldiers who will re-enlist for three years or during the war will be
enrolled in the Veterans' Corps, and receive a bounty of $400.00 and a thirty-day
furlough. Some of the boys signed their names at once.1
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1 I was not yet in from picket and so knew nothing
of what was going on.—A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 156
