Tuesday, June 26, 2012

June, Thursday 26, 1862

Camp near Middletown.   Day of rest.

Captain Dobke and Adjutant Michaelis are ordered to take the monies of the regiments to Winchester.

I give them for my wife $125 -.

Anthony Pierce is going to Winchester, Schaefer gives him $100 - to take along. For me he takes a parcel containing the portrait of my family and my commission, likewise a letter to my wife.

Lieutenant Hofferberth Officer of the Guard. I paid Pierce $10 - for a sash, $7 - victuals, $2 - I still owed to him from Mount Jackson. I take $3 - German sausage, 75 cents tea, envelopes 25 cents soap 10 cents ichavte $2 - (perhaps shaving equipment?) stockings 25 cents 1 bottle wine $1.50. 

Our music corps were mustered out of U.S. Army Duty and are going to New York. We are notified officially of the discharge of Schuehaeler Company C Medical Department, by the Medical Department of Wheeling.

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