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Regiment: 6th Michigan Infantry
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Certificate
To Be Given to Volunteers at the Time of Their Discharge to Enable
Them to Receive Their Pay, &c.
I certify, on honor, that Holly Van Ostran a Private
of Captain Clarke’s Company (D) of the Sixth Regiment of Michigan
Volunteers, of the State of Michigan, born in Cayuga, State
of New York, aged 18 years; 5 feet 5 inches high: light complexion, hazel eyes,
light hair, and by occupation a Farmer, having joined the company on its original organization
at Dowagiac, Mich., and enrolled in it at the muster into the service of the United States
at Kalamazoo Mich, on the Twentieth day of August, 1861, (or was
mustered in service as a recruit, by Maj Wm. D. Wilkins, at Kalamazoo,
on the Twentieth day of August, 1861, to serve in the Regiment) for the term
of three years, ordering the war: and having served honestly and faithfully with
his company in , to the present date, is now entitled to a discharge by reason
of Physical disability per Surgeons Certificate
The said Holly Van Ostran was last paid by Paymaster
Brinton to include the 31
st day of August, 186 , and has pay due him
from that time to the present date, and also pay for the use of his horse, (having been mounted during the time,)
and he is entitle to pay and subsistence for traveling to place of enrolment and whatever other allowances are
authorized to volunteer soldiers, or militia, so discharged. He has received /100
dollars advanced by the United States on account of clothing.
There is to be stopped from him, on account of the State of , or other authorities,
for clothing, &c., received on entering service, /100 dollars; also, for expenses of subsistence
for traveling from place of enrolment to the place of redezvous, amounting to /100 dollars;
and on account of the United States for extra clothing received in kind from
and for other stoppages, viz:
amounting to /100 dollars;
and he has been subsisted for traveling to his place of enrolment, up to the 186 .
He is indebted to , Sutler, Three 75/100 dollars.
Given in duplicate, at Baltimore, this 22d day of October, 1861.
Chas. E. Clarke
Commanding Company.
Note.-Two of these certificates, (or duplicates,) are to be given to each volunteer soldier who may be discharged previously to the discharge of his company, that he may at once receive from the Paymaster the pay, &c., due him, and the captain or other officer commanding the company, will certify to the
act of the delivery of the duplicate certificates; on these certificates the Soldier is “entitled to” his discharge, and should also present his discharge to the Paymaster to have the payment endorsed on it. The discharge is to be given back to the Soldier, by the Paymaster, – the latter only retaining as his voucher the duplicate certificats.
