Statistical Pocket Manual of the Army, Navy, and Census of the United States of America: Together with Statistics of All Foreign Nations ...D.P. Butler, 1862 - United States |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
00 2 Servants 00 3 Horses 00 4 Rations 00 Total monthly 1st 5 yrs addition to pay army artillery Auxiliary Screws Baltimore Bark Bark....New Bedford Barracks batteries Boston BREVET SECOND Brigantines Brigs cable be laid Captain Cedar Keys Class commanding cords of oak date of commis'n Delaware DEPARTMENT duty at sea Fernandina Florida Fort Beauregard Fort Clark Fort Pickens Fort Walker fortifications Fortress Monroe harbor Hatteras Inlet Hilton Head Island Horse power Horse-power Iron Key West land line leave or waiting Miles Mortar vessels Navy Yard Newport North Carolina number of guns Number vessels oak wood officers Ohio Ordnance ounce pay 4 Rations Philadelphia Pickens Propeller Propellor rank Rations 3 Horses regiment Richmond River Sailing ditto Savannah Schooner Screw Corvettes SECOND LIEUTENANT Sergeant Ship Island Ship....New Bedford Sidewheel steamer Sloops steam vessels Steamtug SURGEONS Tonnage Total monthly pay Total number Transports Tybee Island Union Rebel waiting orders Washington year-total York
Popular passages
Page 22 - ... the regulation, and one pound of potatoes per man shall be issued at least three times a week, if practicable; and when these articles cannot be issued in these proportions, an equivalent in value shall be issued in some other proper food, and a ration of tea may be substituted for a ration of coffee upon the requisition of the proper officer...
Page 21 - Twenty-two ounces of bread or flour, or one pound of hard bread, instead of the present issue; fresh beef shall be issued a» often as the commanding officer of any detachment or regiment shall require it, when practicable, in place of salt meat; beans and rice or...
Page 33 - For the purchase of horses for cavalry and artillery, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mileage, or the allowance made to officers of the army for the transportation of themselves and their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, escorts, or supplies, one hundred thousand dollars.
Page 40 - One ration per day, only, is allowed to all officers when attached to vessels for sea service, since the passage of the law of the 3d of March, 1835, regulating the pay of the Navy.
Page 15 - Home." All enlisted men are entitled to $2 per month additional pay for re-enlisting, and $1 per month for each subsequent period of five years...
Page 29 - ... the States were asked to furnish 500,000 volunteers to serve for three years, or during the war; and by the act approved the 29th of the same month, the addition of 25,000 men to the Regular Army of the United States was authorized. The result is, that we have now an army of upwards of 600,000 men. If we add to this the number of the discharged Three months.
Page 14 - Paymasters' clerks receive $700 per annum, and one ration (75 cents) per day when on duty. The officer in command of a company is allowed $10 per month for the responsibility of clothing, arms, and accoutrements. — Act March 2, 1827, Sec. 2. Subaltern officers, employed on the general staff, and receiving increased pay therefor, are not entitled to the additional or fourth ration provided by the Act March 2, 1827, Sec.
Page 21 - A ration, in our army, at present consists of 12 ounces of pork or bacon, or 20 ounces of fresh or salt beef; 18 ounces of bread or flour, or 12 ounces of hard bread, or...
Page 19 - The rank of non-commissioned officers will be marked by chevrons upon both sleeves of the uniform coat and overcoat, above the elbow, of silk or worsted binding one-half an inch wide, same color as the edging on the coat, points down, as follows : 1578.