1841 pay extract
Additional Notes:
Colonels received forage for 4 horses
Lt Colonels and Majors each received forage
for 3 horses.
Soldiers serving in a position of aid-de-camp
received the pay of Lieutenant plus $10.00
In addition, aid-de-camp received 2 rations
per day and were allowed 1 servant
Principal Musicians received the same pay
and rations as Sergeant Majors and
Quarter Master Sergeants
Musicians received the same pay and rations
as Privates
Officer subsistence was 20 cents per ration
(per day); forage at $8.00 per month, per horse.
Officers were entitled to receive, for each
servant, the pay of 1 private plus a $2.50
clothing allowance plus 1 ration (20 cents per
day) or about $15.50 per month.
A complete 1841 pay table can be viewed at:
In 1841 pay, rations and other compensation for
Infantry officers and enlisted was:
| rank | $ per month | rations | servants |
| Major General | $ 200.00 | 15 | 4 |
| Brig. General | $ 104.00 | 12 | 3 |
| Colonel | $ 75.00 | 5 | 2 |
| Lieut. Colonel | $ 60.00 | 5 | 2 |
| Major | $ 50.00 | 4 | 2 |
| Captain | $ 40.00 | 4 | 1 |
| 1st Lieutenant | $ 30.00 | 4 | 1 |
| 2nd Lieutenant | $ 25.00 | 4 | 1 |
| Sergeant Major | $ 17.00 | 1 | |
| Q. M. Sergeant | $ 17.00 | 1 | |
| 1st Sergeant | $ 16.00 | 1 | |
| Sergeant | $ 13.00 | 1 | |
| Corporal | $ 9.00 | 1 | |
| Private | $ 7.00 | 1 |