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William A. Dennis: fifteen dollars after discharge
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William A. Dennis’s surviving paperwork distinguishes his army discharge from a later settlement of New Jersey pay.
The certificate identifies the regiment
The discharge copy names Private William A. Dennis of Company G, 34th New Jersey Volunteers. It records enrollment on September 14, 1863, and discharge at Trenton on June 12, 1865. This corrects the 10th-regiment identification in one heading of the society’s biographical compilation. Dennis discharge copy.
A payment for a specific interval
A September 9, 1865 Treasury receipt records $15 in state pay for September 14, 1863, through May 1, 1864, when the form says federal pay increased. That amount is neither his entire wartime earnings nor a lifelong pension. The receipt shows how military service generated a second trail through state accounts. Dennis state-pay receipt.
Home appears in another kind of record
The society’s census summaries place Dennis in Southampton before and after the war, working as a wood chopper and laborer, and connect him with Tabernacle burial records. Those summaries provide local context; the original census pages were not inspected here. THS veteran research.
Sources and research limits
The discharge copy and Treasury receipt were read as images. Blank physical-description fields remain blank; no battle participation or disability is inferred from these documents.