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Pay Even though the official bounty for a US regular was $116, you didn't get all of that just to join. Typical actual bounty pay was $50. You got the rest of your bounty when you were discharged. Typical pay was supposed to be about $8 a month, but based on numerous letters home nobody got that. It looks like you also got that when you were discharged. For the 23rd Regiment, apparently soldiers who joined in 1812 when the regiment was formed still where waiting to be paid for the first time in 1814.
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