1                            Bucks County Intelligencer  Paid Off  December 23, 1862  Page 3 Col. 1                            1

 

Paid Off.—The paymaster made his appearance

among the men of the 104th Regiment, and paid off the

entire regiment up to about the first of November.  Most

of the men received pay for four months, and a few for

six and eight months, making a pretty large pile.  All

the men in Capt. Harvey’s Company who were taken pris-

oners at Fair Oaks; received pay for eight months.  A

large amount of the money received was immediately

forwarded home by the men for the use of their families

or friends.  Chaplain Gries brought to Doylestown, on

Wednesday, about $13,000, being part of the money sent

home by Bucks county men, and left a lot more in Phila-

delphia, and took some to Reading, for the use of families

of men in the regiment.  Michael E. Jenks, who is now

sutler of the regiment, also brought to Doylestown, on

Wednesday, about $2,600, for the use of families of many of

at a very opportune moment to the families of many of

the men, who were anxiously looking for this remittance. 

There are still nearly two months’ pay yet due the men,

which they will probably receive some time during next

month.  The men were charged more for clothing furnished

them by the Government than they expected they would

be, which caused considerable disappointment and dissat-

isfaction..  The particulars are given elsewhere by our

correspondents in the regiment.