1              Bucks County Intelligencer, Paid off.  June 24, 1862  Page 3  Col. 1      1

 

Paid off.—Chaplain Wm. R. Gries, of the 104th

Regiment, arrived in Doylestown on Wednesday evening

last, with between seven and eight thousand dollars,

which had been sent home by him to their families or

friends, by the men of the regiment.  Mr. Gries brought

with him in all about $10,000, belonging to the officers and

men of the regiment.  Some of this sum was distributed

among the families of the men residing in Philadelphia,

and a portion of it was sent to Reading and Lehigh coun-

ty.  The balance was brought to Doylestown.  The men

received only two months of their backstanding pay,

leaving nearly two months’ pay yet due them.  Only

those present and on duty received their pay.  There is

some formality about drawing the pay of the sick and

wounded who are absent  in the hospitals, and the balance

due to those who have been killed in battle or died in the

service.  Descriptive lists, with the necessary vouchers,

have to be made out by the proper officers, and after these

undergo a certain routine of red tape the money can be

obtained.  The sick and wounded will consequently have

to wait a short time for their pay.  It will certainly be

along before a great while.  The regiment at present oc-

cupies a position three or four miles from the front lines

of the army.


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