Thursday, 22d—The Eleventh Iowa received eight months’ pay, besides $100.00 of bounty money. I received $243.45, $34.00 of it being clothing money.[1] I expressed $105.00 home, John D. Moore sending some with mine. The boys of Company E settled for their year’s clothing. The furloughed men started for their homes this evening.
[1] When a soldier did not draw all the clothing the Government allowed him, he was allowed the money instead. Sergeants were allowed more than privates, receiving $20 per month.—A. G. D.