previous next

Pay of army officers.

While it would appear, by a superficial consideration of the subject, that the officers in the Confederate States army are paid more liberally than those in the Federal army, an investigation will, perhaps, lead to a different conclusion. Our officers, it is true, receive a lucrative compensation in money, but there are no extra allowances. Out of the amount they have to furnish their own rations, uniforms, and other indispensable articles; while at the North a certain number of rations to each officer are furnished by the Government, and they are left free to apply their entire salaries to private purposes. We are, however, among those who believe that the rank and file of the army should be well paid, since the officers are apt to receive all the honors of war, which ought to make up for any deficiency in other respects; while the privates, who sustain most of the hardships, and are generally unknown to fame, are placed at the bottom of the list in respect to emolument.

The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 8, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
United States (United States) (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: