Tuesday, November 12, 1861
The regiment received its first pay since leaving Massachusetts on September 4th. The men were paid in gold coin and in full up to November 1 and sent over eight thousand dollars home on order of Joseph Wightman, Mayor of Boston.1
References:
1George A. Bruce, The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861 - 1865 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1906), 72.
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