Summary account of bounties paid out by paymaster general
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This is a fragment from an account book of John D. Van Buren, Paymaster General, giving monthly totals of bounties paid out to volunteers by the State of New York between May 1863, and December 1864.
The summary table gives number of bounties paid out to new or re-enlisted men in amounts ranging from $10 to $150.
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