The Russian soldier receives annually only thirty-six dollars per year as pay, and his rations consist solely of black bread. – The soldier in the French army receives fifty-six cents a month. The pay of our soldiers is twenty times greater. The estimate in the French budget for 1860 was $64, 687,500 for an army on a war footing of 762,766 men, and in addition, a reserve militia, on a peace footing of 415,746 men. It costs the United States nearly three times as much to maintain a soldier as it does the British Government; and it must be remembered that the British Government can get money at three per cent interest, while it cost us six percent or more.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1
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