Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-10
AND INFANTRY.

crnment:
ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY.
Per Month
Quartermaster Sergeant 2
Principal Musician Q
| First Sergeant q
| Sergeant L
Ordnance Sergeant 2
Corporal ];
Artihcer of Artillery Ii
Musician i
Private L
The commissioned officers are obliged to
clothe, equip and arm themselves with 8
sword) at their own expense, the pay receiv
ed by them being intended to cover all cut
lays. 1t is matter of personal choice with
the officers whether they carry any arms
(pistols, co. beyond the regulation sword.
EXTRA WORK.
When it is necessary to employ the army
at work on Notifications, in surveys, in cut
ting roads, and other constant labor of not
less than ten days, the non commissioned
officers and soldiers so employed are enrolled
as extra duty men, and are allowed twenty
five cents day when employed as laborers
and teamsters, and forty cents q day when
employed as mechanics, at all stations east
of the Rocky Mountains; and thirty five and
fifty cents per day respectively, at all points
west OF CnOSe mountains.
Enlisted men of the Ordnance and Engi-
neer Departments and artifcers of artillery,
are not entitled to this allowance when en-
ployed in their appropriate work.
A days work shall not exceed ten hours in
summer, and eight in winter. Soldiers are
paid in proportion for any greater number of
hours they are employed each day. Sum
mer is considered to commence on the LIST
day Of April, and winter on the LIST of o.
tober.
CLOTHING OF SOLDIERS.
A soldier is allowed the uniform clothing
in the following table, or articles thereof Of
equal value. When balance is due him at
the end of the year, it is added to his allow
ance fol. thel next; LIST year, two caps, COM
plete; one pompon; one eagle and ring one
cover, two coats; three pair trowsers; three
flannel shirts; three do drawers; four pair
bootees Tor one pair of boots and two pair of
bootees;) four pair of stockings, one leather
stock, one great coat, one stable frock (for
mounted men, one pair of overalls (for en-
gineers and ordnance, one blanket and one
knapsack, with straps, haversack and can.
teen with straps, to each man enlisted.
Only such articles of clothing as are indis-
pensable for immediate use will be issud to
recruits at the rendezvous. Their equipment
will not be made complete till after they have
passed inspection subsequent to their arrival
at the depot.
The rations is three quarters of a pound
of pork or bacon, or one and a quarter
pounds of fresh or salt beef; eighteen ounces
Of -four or bread, or twelve ounces of hard
broad ny,n and e
meal; and at the rate of 100 rations to eight
quarts of peas or beans, or in lieu thereof
ten pounds Of rice, six pounds of coffee,
twelve pounds of sugar, four quarts of vine
gar, one and half pounds of tallow, or one
and quarter pounds of adamantine or one
pound of sperm candles, four pounds of soap
and two quarts of salt.
On campaign, or on marches, or on board
Of transports, the ration of hard bread (sea
bisciuD is one pound. Soldiers are expected
to preserve, distribute and cook their own
All enlisted men are entitled |
10 one ration a day.
The intention is good to properly provis.
on our volunteers, and if no dearth of the
hings necessary therefor should take place,
he following is the list of rations:
For breakfast, at o'clock A. NJ, there will
,e furnished for each man provisions in the
blowing quantities:
One quart of good coffee.
Eight ounces Of bread.
Three Fights of pound of beef.
At twelve o'clock NJ, r:.dinner:
Five-e,ghts of pound of beef or mutton,
vell cooked, with potatoes.
One quart baked beans to every ten men,
nd every other day, in lieu of baked beans,
Ice, bean or vegetable soup will be furnished
{ the rate of one pint per man.
At five o'clock P. NJ, for supper:
Three pints Of Coffee.
One quarter pound of cold beef or mutton. I
The coffee to be furnished will be properly
and milk in due proportion will Z
so be provided. t