re: #136 Decatur Deb

Yes—that’s what we were doing on the truck, picking up the monthly pay for the main post agent officers. Somebody probably did the math during the Civil War.

Yup!

That ancient formula was considered just like magic.

The junior officer stuckee usually didn’t mind this duty, unlike most of the scut work extra duty he was assigned.

- He got to draw a cal. 45 pistol and wear it like some badass. And,
- All the enlisted actually payed attention to him. Well… For at least a short time while they drew their pay.