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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Headquarters Southern District of North Carolina Office of Superintendent Wilmington, N.C. August 2nd 1867 Col. J.F. Chur A.A.A. Genl Colonel, I have the honor to nominate Mr. Henry C. Ireland for the position of Clerk in my Office at a salary of One Hundred Dollars pr. month. Mr. Ireland served during the war as a Private Soldier in the 6th Connecticut Volunteers and was detailed as a Clerk at the Provost Marshal's Office here, in the early part of 1865. - This appointment is to fill the place of my present Clerk Mr. H.H. Walton who has gone North of account of Sickness. This appointment to date from August 1st, 1867 as Mr. Ireland is now assisting. I am Colonel Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Serv. Allan Rutherford Capt 44th US Inftry Sub Ast. Commr. L.B. Pg. 11 Vol. 3.
Transcription Notes:
$100 per month in 1867 amounts to $1,877.23 in 2021.
Henry E. Ireland listed in NPS Civil War Soldiers database
https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=06F19DAB-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A