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:
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 |