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Union Generals Rent

What Army Officers Pay for House Rent-- In answer to an order of inquiry from the Senate, it appears that Gen. McClellan charges the Government monthly seven hundred and twenty dollars for rent of offices; Halleck, one hundred and thirty six; Buell, two hundred and thirty; Wool, at Troy, four hundred and twenty; Butler, at Boston, seventy; Rosencrans, at Wheeling, forty-six. Dix occupies the office belonging to the Baltimore Brigade.

The Holmes County Rebublican (Millersburg, Ohio) 03 Apr 1862 (Page 01)
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John E. Wool was born in 1784, according to his Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Wool