Civil War Discharge Certficate to Enable Pay Massachusetts 12 Reg E Co 1862

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Civil War Discharge Certficate to Enable Pay Massachusetts 12 Reg E Co 1862:
$14.00

This Civil War document is a CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN TO VOLUNTEERS AT THE TIME OF THEIR DISCHARGE TO ENABLE THEM TO RECEIVE THEIR PAY, &c. It reads:I certify, on honor, that Wm. A. Turtchell a Private of Lieutenant Clarks Company E of the 12 Regiment of Infantry Volunteers, of the State of Mass., born in Bethel, State of Maine, aged 30 years; 6 feet _ inches high: dark complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, and by occupation a ship ___, having joined the company on its original organization at Fort Warren, and enrolled in it at the muster into the service of the United States at Fort Warren Boston, on the 26 day of June, 1861, (or was mustered in service as a recruit, by E.C. Lattmut, at _____, on the 26 day of June, 1861, to serve in the Regiment) for the term of three years; and having served honestly and faithfully with his Company in _____, to the present date, is now entitled to a discharge by reason of Surgeons Certificate of Disability.
The said Wm A Turtchellhas was last paid by Paymaster Hapgort to include the 28 day of Feb, 1862, 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 entitled 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 $26 97/100 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, _____dollars; also, for expenses of subsistence for traveling from place of enrolment to the place of rendezvous, amounting to ____dollars; and on account of the United States for extra clothing received in kind from_____and for other stoppages, viz:_____
amounting to ___dollars;
and he has been subsisted for traveling to his place of enrolment, up to the _____186_.
He is indebted to _____, Sutler, _____dollars.
Given in duplicate at _____ Hospital, this tenth day of May, 1862.
By Command of General Wallsworth
Wm Bradly Jr
Asst Surg U.S.A.
Charge of Stone HospitalThe document is in very good condition. The back has some paper adhered from another document, but I did not attempt to remove it. In red ink it is written on back \"claim no. 115508\"Measures 8\" x 10\"