Listers, Bounties were initially fairly low sums, and were paid in advance at time of enlistment. As the war continued and bounties got larger, less honest men would join a regiment, collect the bounty, and then desert to do it again with one or more other regiments. To thwart these "bounty-jumpers," bounties began to be paid in installments- this much when you enlisted, this much at one or more later dates. Bounties could be paid at the federal, state, county, and even the city or town level. Some Illinois County Clerks have records of bounties paid- check the county courthouse or the IRAD system for the county he lived in. Tom Pearson