Diary of Alexander G. Downing; Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry
    

First Government pay as a soldier in the United States service.–Alexander G. Downing.

Thursday, 12th–We received our first month’s pay today. Each man in Company E received pay for twenty-six days of service in the month of October, amounting to $11.25, a little less than a full month’s pay. I received my first Government pay as a soldier in the United States service, getting a ten-dollar gold piece[i] and one dollar and twenty-five cents in silver. I expressed $10.00 home.


[i] This was the first gold I had seen for months and, as it proved, the last I saw during the war.–A. G. D.

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