Handbook for Light Artillery

by A. B. Dyer

Year of enlistment	First Year.		Second Year		Third Year.	Fourth Year.	Fifth Year.
Rank and Service.
Company.
Private—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		$13		$13	$14	$15	$16
Private (2d class)—engineers and ordnance
Musician—engineers, artillery, and infantry
Trumpeter—cavalry
Wagoner—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		14		Not entitled to additional pay.[18]
Artificer—artillery and infantry		15
Private—hospital corps		18		18	19	20	21
Corporal--artillery, cavalry, and infantry		15		15	16	17	18
Blacksmith, farrier, and saddler—cavalry
Sergeant—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		18		18	19	20	21[19]
Private (1st class)—engineers and ordnance		17		17	18	19	20
Corporal—engineers and ordnance		20		20	21	22	23
First sergeant—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		25		25	26	27	28[19]
Sergeant—engineers, ordnance, and signal corps		34		34	35	36	37
1st class sergeant—signal corps		45		45	46	47	48
Regiment.
Chief trumpeter		22		22	23	24	25
Saddler sergeant—cavalry
Principal musician—artillery and infantry
Chief musician—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		60		Not entitled to additional pay.[18]
Sergeant-major—artillery, cavalry, and infantry		23		23	24	25	26
Q. M. sergeant—artillery, cavalry, and infantry
Sergeant-major and Q. M. sergeant—engineers		36		36	37	38	39
Veterinary surgeon (senior)		100		Not entitled to any additional pay.
Veterinary surgeon (junior)		75
Post.
Ordnance sergeant		34		34	35	36	37
Commissary sergeant
Post quartermaster-sergeant
Hospital steward		45		45	46	47	48
Acting hospital steward		25		25	26	27	28

On re-enlisting after 5 years' service, $2.00 per month in addition to pay received at time of discharge ($1.00 is retained), and for each 5 years' continuous service thereafter a further sum of $1.00 per month.

The pay of a man who has ever re-enlisted under the act of August 4, 1854, and comes into the service again, commences with pay for fifth year.

A certificate of merit entitles a soldier to $2.00 per month additional pay, commencing on the date of rendering "distinguished service," and continuing through all subsequent service as an enlisted man.

Enlisted men (retired) are entitled to three fourths of the monthly pay allowed by law to them in the grade they held when retired, with commutation of clothing and rations.

SUMMARY COURT.

When charges are preferred against an enlisted man for offences cognizable by inferior courts-martial, they will be laid before the post commander, who, if he thinks that the accused should be tried, will cause him to be brought before the summary court. Here he will be arraigned and allowed to plead, according to the practice of courts-martial. If an accused neither demands a removal of his case to a regimental or garrison court-martial; nor, being a non-commissioned officer above the rank of corporal, objects to trial by inferior court-martial; nor objects to be tried by the officer second in rank on the ground of his being the accuser; nor pleads guilty, witnesses will be sworn and evidence received, the accused being permitted to testify in his own behalf and make a statement; but the evidence and statement will not be recorded. When the summary court shall have arrived at a finding and judgment, the summary court record book, with the entries therein made in accordance with the headings of its columns, will be laid before the post commander for his action, which also will be entered in the record book, dated and signed. When a case is heard by the post commander, the proceedings will be recorded in the same book. No other record of the proceedings will be kept, and trials by summary court will not be published in orders.

When a post commander sits as a summary court, no approval of the sentence is required by law, but he should sign the sentence as post commander and date his signature.

Record of Summary Court at.......................