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Correct Answer: $13.00 per month

Soldiers Pay in The American Civil War. Union privates were paid $13 per month until after the final raise of 20 June '64, when they got $16.

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Is it May 13, 1865 or July 12, 1865?
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Is it May 13, 1865 or July 12, 1865?
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