Non-com Pay Rates 1864

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Increase in Pay of Soldiers.
The act to increase the pay of soldiers in the United State army, provides that on and after the first day of May last, and during the continuance of the present rebellion, the pay per month of non commissioned officers and privates in the military service shall be as follows:
Sergeant-majors, $26; quartermaster and commissary sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, $20; sergeants of ordnance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, $34; corporals of ordinance, sappers and miners, and pontoniers, $23; privates of engineers and ordnance of the first class, $18, and of the second class, $16; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, $18; chief buglers of cavalry, $23; buglers, $16; farriers and blacksmiths of cavalry and artillery, $18; privates of cavalry, artillery and infantry, $16; principal musicians of artillery and infantry, $22; leaders of brigade and regimental bands, $75; musicians, $16; hospital stewards of first class, $33; hospital stewards of second class, $25; hospital stewards of third class, $23
Rock Island Weekly Argus, July 6, 1884.
 

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