My reference to the First Sergeant allowance to being assigned a Clerk is taken from William Watson's "Life in the Confederate Army, Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the American Civil War," LSU Press, 1995, p. 140. The other notations are speculation.

"I will now give a slight description of the duties of an orderly-sergeant as it was in the United States service at that time.

"He held the rank of sergeant-major, his pay was equal to one-and-a-half that of the first duty-sergeant. He was the general executive officer of the company. He was secretary of the company, and was allowed a clerk." . . .