The Portland daily press., 1865-05-26


mustered out, paid and sent home day before
yesterday. These boys have made good
thing by going soldering at the eleventh
hour. To those mustered in there was paid I
from $500 90 to $500 90 local, 500 90 State
and $33 90 United States bounty-rocks
enough to cover q small farm. A friend sug=
gests, after close observation, that, although |
these soldiers had no opportunity to render
the country much service in the field, they
can in another direction by taking VILE
there are plenty waiting aud anxious,-going
to housekeeping and thus do the state some /
service by. becoming good citizens 80 mote
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The troops to be paid Off and discharged
are expected to commence arriving next
week. The late military order, to muster out
those soldiers whose term expires before 0c- 4
tober first, paroled prisoners and GONZALES
cents in hospitals here, has made matters very
active ia this vicinity. Every train brings
more orless. soldiers, ordered to report to Col.
Eitler, chief mastering officer.
The Colonel has twenty-five clerks at his
headquarters, and he with his whole force Is
working early and late. day in and day out, to
comply with the orders of the War Depart
ment as regards mastering out troops. iApro-5
pos, would here say that the Importance ola
correct muster. out, is q matter very little un-
d.rstood by the community in general, as it,
involves pensions, bounties, back pay and
&.,n:l;< or1 for ha II
not be too carefully done, as itnot only con-
Germs this generation but the next. People
are apt to cry out "Red Tape without
knowing what it means) If soldiers do not
reach the State one day and get discharged,
paid of. and sent home the next. Very often
the Hospital and the regiment to which they
belong have to be written to for their Des-
criptive List, involving delay Of weeks,
sometimes, and the military standing in or.
der TO discharge them properly. When regirl
ments and companies are mustered out, the
| rolls have to bear the name OF every man who
ever belonged to the organization, what be-
came of him, when, where, his residence, when
mustered and great many more particulars
requiring great care and patience to make cor
rect. These rolls, seoen copies of which are
made, and three musterout pay rolls besides,
are deposited in the Adjutant Generals office
here and the various appropriate offices at
Washington, and from these all claims of the
soldier are settled whenever they come up.
Here is the importance of "Red Tapen-a
phrase always used sneeringly, though it is an
innocent one in itself, and those who have had
experience in settling claims Of soldiers who
were in the revolutionary war or In that Of
1912, will never be found Joining in the cry
against it. The more remots the time from
that Of discharge, the more important these
papers viii be. sIli az 3 - I'D sfl ~ 4
/ understand that three companies, B, g
and E, of the Sd Regiment Veteran Reserve
Corps, have been ordered to report to Col
Littler for duty. They will be distributed at
such places asrequhethsi services. Il 1bsE q
Within the past few days. quite number Of
! paroled prisoners have rap,ffed here and by
Col. Littler been bte'. passts home to await
their d. s,,ripaveasLsls. Many of tnenlare
from Aiidets5nFins, ana stheifs haggard looks
and eniaciated forms spoke inarticulate vol
umes OF the tender hospitalities of their
friends, our southern brethren. Major Cutler
of the I'd Maine Cavalry, who was captured
In Florida aud has been some months insvari-
Gus rebel prisons is also here. He says there
is no doubt of a systematic determination on
the part of the rebels, TO use up every one of
| our men who fellin their hands and that
one hslf the horrors of their treatment will