92ND NEW YORK CAPTAIN’S PAY VOUCHER

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When opened the document meas. approx. 15.75 inches long x 10.00 inches wide. The document is pre-printed and filled out in period ink that is very legible. The document is for pay of Captain Charles B. Church of Company D, 92nd New York Infantry. The document covers March and April of 1863 and states what the Captain paid his servant for those months and what the Captain was due for pay those months. The bottom of the form also has a place where a description of the servant is given.

The document is in very good condition and is very clean. It has one vertical and two horizontal fold lines.

Charles B. Church was 31 years old and living in Potsdam, New York when he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in Company D, 92nd New York Infantry on October 10, 1861. He was mustered in on the 30th of that same month. The regiment was assigned to the 4th Corps of the Army of the Potomac and took part in the Peninsula Campaign and took part in the Seven Days Battles before Richmond. The regiment was sent to North Carolina in December of 1862 where it was engaged at Kinston on December 12th of that year. In that battle the regiment suffered 10 casualties, one of which was 2nd Lieutenant Church. How bad he was wounded is not known but he was promoted to Captain on January 18, 1863. The regiment went on to see action with the 18th Corps at Fort Anderson, Plymouth, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Chaffin’s Farm and Hatcher’s Run. Captain Church was mustered out on January 1, 1865. During its service the regiment lost 218 men killed wounded and captured and another 115 by disease.

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