The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-11
HOW SOLDIERS ARE CARED FOR
Volunteers Will be Treated Like Sol
disrs in the Regular Army.
Richmond Times.

and Spain is no longer a possibility,
but fact, the manner in which the
United States will take care of the
men who are ready to risk their lives
for the country's welfare has become
a matter Of general interest. What
the pay of the men in the regular
army shall be, how they are to be sus-
tained and what other emoluments
they are to receive has all been laid
down in the military regulations that
have been issued from time to time.
The hundred thousand volunteers
from the various States Of the Union,
for which the President has called,
will of course be treated in like man
ner and will be subjected to the same
regulations.
The official Army Register for the
year 1897, published by order Of the
Secretary of War, in compliance with
existing laws, gives the pay Of the Of
fcers OF the regular army in active
service, which will also apply TO the
officers of the volunteers, as follows:
Lieutenant general, $1,000 per
year, or $916.l7 per month; major
general, 81, 800 per year, or 1925 per
month; brigadier general, $4,000 per
year, or $458.33 per month. To the
pay of these three officers 10 per cent
is added after Eve years service, 20
per cent. after ten years service and
40 per cent. after twenty years ser
vice.
The regimental officers receive the
Colonel, $500 per year, or per
month 1921. 81; after FIVE years SER
vice, S32O.83; after ten years service,
$3.50; after fifteen years service,
&375-which is the maximum amount
allowed by law.
Lieutenant colonel, 81, 900 per year,
or per month $3.50; after FIVE years
service, S275; after ten years service,
$500; after fifteen years service, 1926;
after twenty years service, $3S3.33, ),
which is the maximum amount allowed
by law.
Major, $500 per year, or per
month $2O8. 80; after Ave years ser
vice; 1928. II; after ten years service,
$3.50; after fifteen years service,
s27O.83; after twenty years service,
$281.67.
Captain, mounted, $4,000 per year
or per month $166.67; after Eve years
service, $685. .33; after ten years SER
vice, 5000; after fifteen years service,
$2l667; after twenty years service,
s233. 33.
Captain, not mounted. $1,000 per
year, or per month, $3.50; after five
years seivice, sl65; after ten years
service, $3.50; after fifteen years SER
vice; 1896; after twenty years SER
vice, $2l0.
Regimental adjutant and regimental
quartermaster receive the same pay as
captain, not mounted.
First lieutenant, mounted, 81 500
per year, or per month, sl33.33; after
ave years service, $146.67; after ten
years service, $160, after fifteen
years service, $173.33; after twenty
years service, $186.67.
First lieutenant, not mounted, ST.
500 per year, ,'or per month, $125; after
FIVE years service, $137.50; after ten
years service, $3.50; after fifteen
years service, $165.b0; after twenty
years service, $175.
Second lieutenant, mounted, re-
ceives the same pay as first lieutenant,
not mounted.
Second lieutenant, not mounted,
81, 400 per year, or per month, s116. 81;
after FIVE years service, S12833; after
ten years service, $40; after fifteen
years service, $151.67; after twenty
years service, $163.33.
Chaplain receives the same pay as a
first lieutenant, not mounted, or a
second lieutenant, mounted.
The rank and service receive the
following pay per month for the first
and second years of their enlistment.
Company, private, artillery, cavalry
and infantry; private (second class)
engineers and ordnance; musicians,
engineers, artillery and infantry,
trnmpeter, cavalry, S13
Wagoner-Artillery, cavalry, in
fantry, $l4.
Arti6cer-Artillery and infantry
corporal, artillery, cavaly and IN
fantry; blacksmith and falrier, caval-
ry; saddler, cavalry, SIS.
Sergeant-Artillery, cavalry, in
fantry, $18.
Private (drst elass)-hnglneers and
ordnance, SIT.
Corporal-Engineer and ordnance,
First S~rvcau.-Ar.lllery, cavalry.
infa ~, $50.
Sergeant-Engineers, ordnance and
signal corps, s34.
Sergeants (6rst class)-Signal corps,
$45.
Regiment-Chicf trumpeter, caYal-
ry; principal musician, artillery and
infantry; saddle sergeant, cavalry,
$22.
Chief husician-Artillery cavalry
and infantry, $6O.
Sergeant Majo.-Artillcr;;-, cavalry
and infantry; quarletlpaster sc geant,
artillery, cavalry an infantry, $23.
Sergeant Major and 0uartermaster
Sergeant-Engincc... $'6.
Hospital Corp : Hvst ltal steward:
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