{"id":13345,"date":"2021-12-12T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2021-07-25T01:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T06:09:57","slug":"alexander-g-downing-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-121\/","title":{"rendered":"First Government pay as a soldier in the United States service.\u2013Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thursday, 12th<\/em>\u2013We received our first month\u2019s 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\u2019s pay. I received my first Government pay as a soldier in the United States service, getting a ten-dollar gold piece<a name=\"_ftnref1_1919\"><\/a><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> and one dollar and twenty-five cents in silver. I expressed $10.00 home.<a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> This was the first gold I had seen for months and, as it proved, the last I saw during the war.\u2013A. G. D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 12th\u2013We received our first month\u2019s 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\u2019s pay. I received my first Government pay as a soldier in the United States service, getting a ten-dollar gold piece[i] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/downing-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}