Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — The Pay of the Regular Army. [ARTICLE]

The Pay of the Regular Army.

The regular army of the United States is made of hventy-five regiments of infantry, ton regiments of cavalry, five regitiK-iits o'.'llcry anil a corps of engineer:-!, 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, there being also -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, 31,800. The Chaplains, of whom there are tfiirtyfour, receive $1,500. The pav of a private soldi r for Mi \fh--i t-.vo v ears of service is sl3 amo tb, i reused $1 a month for each your ■' i e until for the fifth year it is i .id itli. If then he re-enlisls, he ree.-.v <lB a month, and for each subsequent re-en-listment $1 more. |