Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — The Pay of the Regular Army. [ARTICLE]

The Pay of the Regular Army.

The. _ regular army of the United States is made up of twenty-five regiments of infantry, ten regiments of cavalry, five regiments of artillery and a corps of engineers, comprising .in all about 25,000 enlisted men, 2,181 commissioned officers, making, with the 312 cadets and nine professors, a grand aggregate of 28.002 men in active service, tlmr • being Iso -100 retired officers on the rolls. The annual pay of the General of the Army is $13,500, and of the Lieutenant General, $11,000; while the Major Generals receive $7,500; Brigadier Generals, $5,500: Colonels, $3,500; Lieutenant Colonels, $3,000; Majors, $2,500; mounted Captains, 2,000, and Captains dismounted, SI,BOO. The Chaplains, of whom there are thirtyfour, receive $1,500. The pav of a private soldier for th- first two years of service is sl3 a month, l>.i g -m-reased $1 a month for each y<. r f ■• io until for the fifth year it is ; 1<; mo ith. If then he re-enliats, he rece w.v $lB a month, and for each subsequent re enlistment $1 more.