Connecticut. Comptroller

Records, 1862 April 1-1863 March 31
69 items

Descriptive information:

Although not a collection of soldiers÷ letters, per se, this set of records from the office of the Comptroller of the state of Connecticut document a range of activities on the part of the state government on behalf of its soldiers. The collection consists primarily of letters from Connecicut towns seeking to clarify the rules regarding the eligibility of individuals and their families to collect bounties. For instance, one town wishes to know whether illegitimate children of a soldier are eligbile to receive subsidy (they are not), another inquires whether a soldiers÷ live-in ÷wife÷ could receive bounty pay, and the government of town in New Hampshire asks whether the family of an underaged New Hampshire boy who enlisted in a Connecticut regiment (without parental permission) might be able to receive a bounty. There was further confusion over what was to become of bounty payments for deceased, disabled, or captured soldiers.

A number of other letters are attempts to verify or emend rosters of soldiers slated to receive bounties. The confusion over eligibility and the difficulties of determining what men have enlisted and what has become of them provides an interesting commentary on the attempts of a large and dispersed state bureaucracy to deal with war-related issues.

M-2662.1
Cat. 10/91 rsc

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