PENSIONS.
I'XCLE SAM S HUHDEN. NEW YOIiK, March 21. President, Roosevelt has decreed the payment of pensions to every soldier over tin* alt of l»2 who participated in tlie Civil War. The pension list, as a consequence has swollen to many millions—(sic). The Federal army, on the outbreak of hostilities in 1801, numbered only 14,000 regulars, and the navy included 5000 seamen. 0/ volunteer and militia forces there were raised , successively 75,000, and two levies of 500,000 each during the continuance of the war. it is probable the whole Federal forces taking part in the four years' campaigning did not exceed a million and a quarter of men. As the mortality was heavy during the lighting, and as in the forty-three years that have just about elapsed since the first shot J* was fired (April lath, 1.S01) a large J majority of the teterans has passed beyond the pule of human striving it is to be presumed the "many millions" referred to in the cable are meant to imply "many thousands." The Confederate army and navy totalled a much smaller number.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association.—By Telegraph.—Copyright.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 23 March 1904, Page 3
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187PENSIONS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 67, 23 March 1904, Page 3
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