1861 pay extract


Additional Notes:

Colonels received forage for 4 horses (war)

Lt Colonels and Majors each received forage

for 3 horses.

Aid-de-camp received Lieutenant's pay plus $24.00

or $20.00 depending on the rank of the general grade

Officer. Aid-de-camps no longer received extra any

rations nor allowance for an extra servant.

Principal Musicians received the same pay

and rations as Sergeant Majors and

Quarter Master Sergeants

Musicians received $12.00 and the same rations as

Privates

Officer subsistence was 30 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 (30 cents per

day) or about $18.50 per month.

A complete 1861 pay table can be viewed at:

61 Pay

In 1861 pay, rations and other compensation for

Infantry officers and enlisted was:

rank $ per month rations servants
Major General       $ 220.00 15 4
Brig. General       $ 124.00 12 3
Colonel       $ 95.00 6 2
Lieut. Colonel       $ 80.00 5 2
Major       $ 70.00 4 2
Captain       $ 60.00 4 1
1st Lieutenant       $ 50.00 4 1
2nd Lieutenant       $ 45.00 4 1
Sergeant Major       $ 21.00    
Q. M. Sergeant       $ 21.00 1  
1st Sergeant       $ 20.00 1  
Sergeant       $ 17.00 1  
Corporal       $ 13.00 1  
Private       $ 13.00 1