Scope and Content: Series consists of a number of records and indexes concerning bounty payments made to soldiers recruited in Washington D.C. and other southern locations by Massachusetts paymasters duirng the Civil War. Most recruits were African-American and were assigned to the U.S. Colored Troops, but others were enlisted into the Veteran Reserve Corp, U.S. Army as well as units from other states. Records generally indicate name of recruit, military unit, payroll no., soldier bounty numbers, date, amount (most 325 dollars) and to whom paid (name or self). Paymasters Gilbert R. Thornton and W.F. Johnson recruited in Washington D.C. Series also includes pay records of southern bounty paymasters: Eugene A. Albee in Hilton Head S.C., H.K. Starkweather in Fortress Munroe/Norfolk, Va., J. Spencer Drayton in New Bern, N.C., H.R. Fletcher in Nashville, Tenn., and Charles J. McCarty in Vicksburg, Miss.  Also included are summary bounty payroll records of Paymaster (later Paymaster General) James F.B. Marshall. More detailed description of each of the ten volumes follows:
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Notes: After 1866, when the post of Paymaster General had lapsed, the Adjutant General’s Office had custody of records of the Pay Bureau
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