The New Hampshire Gazette And Republican Union

MUSTERED OUT AND PAID OFF.—The work of mustering out and paying off the ninth regiment of infantry was completed at Fort Adams on Saturday night, Aug. 19. The changes in the regiment since its first organization in the spring of 1847 rendered the labor of preparing the rolls for a final statement very great. Although numbering only 560 upon its arrival at Newport, the number on the rolls of the regiment was about 1100. Great care was observed in making up the record of those who have been killed or wounded, or have been discharged on account of sickness, in order to ensure the extra pay or the donation of land script. Col. Dix, the paymaster, was employed on the rolls and accounts almost all night and day during last week.

On Saturday evening, at the U. S. Hotel, Newport, there was a reunion of the officers, and Gen. Childs, the mustering and discharging officer, took friendly leave of them. He left for New York in the evening boat. Many of the officers came on to Boston yesterday morning in the Fall River train, and the balance will leave Newport to-day by the Providence line. In eleven weeks after embarking at Newport in 1847, and sailing 3000 miles and marching 250 by forced marches, the ninth regiment took part in the battle of Contreras, and was greatly distinguished in that and other great battles which had led to the peace. Mr. John H. Warland, who held a nominal appointment in the quarter-master's department, but with the purpose of being the historiographer of the regiment, proposes to publish an account of its operations in a small volume. It will be a work of great interest to the people of New England. Boston Post.