Indicator of soldier’s pay late in the Civil War. Racial disparity in pay rates.
Posted onHymns of the Republic by S. C. Gwynne cites an editorial on May 1, 1864 in the Chicago Tribune titled “Read and Blush” which criticized the wide disparity in pay between black and white soldiers. This editorial is useful for two reasons. First, it reports the pay rates then in effect. Second it reveals the […]