The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-21
SOLDIERS.
The Number Who Served in the Late War
and the Bounties Paid Them.

The Secretary of War recently sent TO the
Senate of the United States i'm reply TO a
resolution offered by MIR. Voorhees, calling
for information as 10 the number of soldiers
who served one, two, and three years. re-
spectively, in the Union army in the late
war, the amount of bounty paid each class,
and the approximate amount to be required
TO equalize the bounties of those who served
in that war, a communication from the Adj
jutant General giving the information
asked for, and copies Of letters to
Congress in former years by the Paymaster
General OF thea rmy setting forth the esti-
mates of the amount To be required for the
equalization of bounties. The Adjutant
Generals report gives the number of enlist
ed men who enlisted for the various periods
as follows:
Three years. 2, 03O, s04 Six months .. 20, 439
Two years.. A.4OOI Four months. AZ
One year Sgl, 1852 One hundred days s5,50T
Nine months. S75, ss Three months. :. los, 4l6
Eight months. 373lSixty days.. 2,045
With respect to the information asked for
in regard TO bounties paid or the sum neces-
sary TO equalize the bounties of those who
served, the Adjutant General says il cannot
be compiled from the records of his office.
He calls attention, however, to the estimates
submitted TO Congress by the Paymaster
General of the army in 1872, 1874, 1876, 1873,
and 1880 In the estimate submitted April
%, 1876, the Paymaster General states that
up to that date there had been paid in boun-
jutant General states that since then there
have been paid in bounties -, 292, 567,
making the total bounties paid to the
date OF the communication S3SS, 2l0,249. The
first estimate of the amount required for
the equalization OF bounties made by the Pay
master General is dated Jan. Is, 1872. Ii is
based on the provision of the bill then pend
ing in Congress 70 give each enlisted man, or
If dead TO give TO his heirs, bounty at the
rate Of $685. per month for his term of SER
wiz rha Do Cfa lsl,<
cost at 1928, 1O5. He divides the enlisted
men into three classes, as follows:
First Class-Ensted men in the regular
army who entered the service between April
II, 1861, and April 10, 1865, and were hQpora-
bly, discharged, 46,359; averages duration of
service. twenty-nine months.
Second Class-Enlisted men OF all classes
who volunteered, including those recognized
for completing the pefenses of Washington
and the slaves who enlisted or were drafted
between April IL, 1851, and April ~, 1855,
2,234,4 AL; deducting substitutes 123, $50, and
enlisted men from captured prisoners of war,
1,5g2 leaves a total of 2,l09,6 500; average
duration of service 2s.7 months.
Third Class-Enlisted men who entered for
not less than three years and were discharged
on account of wounds or while in the line OF
duty, 1000; average duration Of service, 7.3
months.
Estimated cost OF clualizing bounties OF
the first class, Sll20s.2 5S; second class, $780,,
505,32s; third class, ss,6l9.5s3; total S5lo, $685.,
10y. This cum, less the amount of bounties
paid and then payable under the existing
laws, equaling $3.50, los, 0o4, WIS sl37, e75,lO5