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YBrigadier-General Y 570YSame rankY 960Y
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YColonel Y 340YDo. Y 830Y
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YLieutenant-ColonelY 280Y Y Y
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YMajor Y 225YDo. Y 525Y
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YCaptain Y 200YDo. Y 380Y
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YFirst Lieutenant Y 150Y Y Y
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YSecond Lieutenant Y 140Y Y Y
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YCadet Y 90YDo. Y 156Y
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The cavalry officers have a slight increase of pay.

The privates of the American regular army are not the most creditable
soldiers in the world; they are chiefly composed of Irish emigrants,
Germans, and deserters from the English regiments in Canada. Americans
are very rare; only those who can find nothing else to do, and have to
choose between enlistment and starvation, will enter into the American
army. They do not, however, enlist for longer than three years. There
is not much discipline, and occasionally a great deal of insolence, as
might be expected from such a collection. Corporal punishment has been
abolished in the American army except for desertion; and if ever there
was a proof of the necessity of punishment to enforce discipline, it is
the many substitutes in lieu of it, to which the officers are compelled
to resort--all of them more severe than flogging. The most common is
that of loading a man with thirty-six pounds of shot in his knapsack,
and making him walk three hours out of four, day and night without
intermission, with this weight on his shoulders, for six days and six
nights; that is, he is compelled to walk three hours with the weight,
and then is suffered to sit down _one_. Towards the close this
punishment becomes very severe; the feet of the men are so sore and
swelled, that they cannot move for some days afterwards. I inquired
what would be the consequence if a man were to throw down his knapsack
and refuse to walk. The commanding-officer of one of the forts replied,
that he would be hung up by the thumbs till he fainted--a variety of
piquetting. Surely these punishments savour quite as much of severity,
and are quite as degrading as flog