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Inspector general. The first receives 200 dollars pay per month, and fifteen rations a day. The Brigadier general has 104 dollars a month, and twelve rations per day: the Adjutant and Inspector general has the pay and rank of a Brigadier, and six rations a day: a colonel 90 dollars a month, and six rations a day: the lieutenant colonel 75 dollars, and five rations; the major 66 dollars and four rations; the captain 50 and three rations: a sergeant has eight dollars a month, a corporal 7, and the soldier 5. This little army costs the United States more than one of treble the force would cost any power in Europe; it is badly organized, and possesses but few notions of modern tactics. The art of attack and defence of fortified places is still unknown to the Anglo-Americans, as well as that of the most important and decisive evolutions in the field. They have not yet adopted a Staff in their army, nor have they gone beyond the simple practice which they learned from the English or French, in their war of emancipation and independence.[1]
- ↑ A practice in war, that leads to emancipation and independence, however little it may be in unison with modern tactics, can never be wrong. That our army cost more than it ought to have done, during the late war, is not to be denied; but that was owing to a thousand contingencies with which military science had nothing to do. It was neither the fault of the War Department, nor of the military officers
