CITIZENSHIP, WITH THE TOTAL MALE POPULATION 1870. [From the Official Returns of the United States Census, 1870.] The United States 19,493,565 9,439,206 8,353,719 1,032,475 47,531 5,481 8,425,941 NOTE. The last column on the right indicates the total number of citizens under the Constitution, born or naturalized in the United States, who have reached the age qualifying them for the right of suffrage. ILLITERACY BY STATES AND TERRITORIES: DISTINGUISHED INTO WHITE AND COLORED, NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN. [Compiled from the Census of the United States for 1870.] STATES AND TERRITORIES. TOTAL 1 Alabama. Foreign Total. Total. White. Colored. Native. 996,992 92,059 290,898 382,142 68,533 133,043 870 383,012 349,771 296 133,339 111,799 31,716 24,877 22,196 23,938 29,616 19,680 2,469 23,100 19,356 71,235 568 71,803 66,238 1,090 468,593 418,553 76,634 20,602 45,671 24,115 16,978 7,213 20,449 4,101 24,550 16,369 7,231 332,176 249,567 5 Delaware 6 Florida.. 7 Georgia. 8 Illinois. 9 Indiana. 10 Iowa 11 Kansas 12 Kentucky. 13 Louisiana 14 Maine.. 15 Maryland 16 Massachusetts... 17 Michigan 18 Minnesota 7,385 276,158 257,184 11,066 19,052 13,486 8,592 135,499 114,100 89,830 97,742 74,935 30,580 53,127 34.613 18,855 24,413 12,747 827 313,310 291,718 15,584 222,411 146,771 1,309 4,861 2,363 1,721,295 161,763 60,622 206,827 21 Nebraska 22 Nevada 42,491 7,934 9,926 7,618 54,687 37,057 70,702 168,569 239,271 163,501 870 4,444 55,167 235,164 289,726 178,727 185,952 362,955 70.895 150,617 203,334 116 3,902 322,236 444,623 653 290,379 265,892 1,742 364,697 290,549 18,369 221,703 189,423 13,804 17,706 15,185 1,270 445,893 390,913 71,493 9,997 78,339 3,101 81,490 48,802 460 14,113 41,328 55,441 35,031 776,158 2,765,370 4,791,935 760,553 5,552,488 4,438,206 21,961 Total in the U.S. 38,558,371 2,851,911 2,789,689 4,880,271 777,873 5,658,144 4,528,084 NOTE.-The second column shows the white population of ten years and over who are unable to write, in each State and Territory, and for the whole United States; the sixth column sums up all classes and nativities over ten years who are unable to write; and the last column shows the aggregate of all classes and nativ ities over ten years who are unable to read. INSANE, IDIOTIC, deaf and DUMB, AND BLIND, IN U. S. 263 TABLE OF THE INSANE, IDIOTIC, DEAF AND DUMB, AND BLIND, IN THE UNITED STATES, IN 1870. THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. THE following facts are summarized from the Annual Report of the General of the Army, General W. T. Sherman, for the year 1877. The following is given as the "Return or actual strength" of the army up to the 12th of October, 1877, showing that at that date the regular army was composed of— General officers, 11; general staff officers, 566; hospital stewards, 185; engineer battalion, 199; ordnance enlisted men, 346; enlisted men of staff corps, 731. Ten regiments of cavalry: Officers, 439; enlisted men, 7,911-total cavalry, 8,350. Five regiments of artillery: Officers, 234; enlisted men, 2,321-total, 2,605. Twenty-five regiments of infantry: Officers, 877; enlisted men, 8,778-total infantry, 9,655. Besides which there are reported as non-commissioned staff unattached to regiments, military academy, recruits unassigned, Indian scouts and prison-guard, amounting to 1,877 men; signal corps, 404; retired officers, 301; and captain of United States army by Act of Congress, 1. Aggregating officers and men, 24,501, of which the force available for war is made up of the cavalry, artillery, and infantry regiments, amounting to 20,610 officers and men, to which should be added the eleven general officers and the officers of the general staff serving with them, together with 570 Indian scouts. For convenience and to fix responsibility, the country is divided into ten military departments, each of which is commanded by a brigadier-general, or by the senior colonel serving in the department, especially empowered by the President of the United States. These departments are grouped into three geographical divisions, commanded by the lieutenant-general and by two of the major-generals. There is also the Department of West Point, commanded by Major-General Schofield, which is somewhat exceptional in its nature, designed to give due importance to the Military Academy, and to vest the commanding general thereof with power to exercise all the functions necessary to insure perfect discipline and thorough administration. Entered the Army. General of the Army.. Lieutenant-General. William T. Sherman. 1810 1853 Major-Generals (limited by law to three).. Winfield S. Hancock. John M. Schofield.. Brigadier-Generals (limited by law to six)..John Pope..... ...1844 .1853 ...1838 ...1842 NOTE.-The officers marked thus (*) have each the rank and pay of a brigadiergeneral; those marked thus (†) have the rank and pay of colonels. PAY OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. * The maximum pay of colonels is limited to $4,500, and of lieutenant-colonels to $4,000. QUARTERS, FUEL, AND FORAGE ALLOWED TO ARMY OFFICERS. NOTE. The law provides that no allowances shall be made to officers in addition to their pay, except fuel, quarters, and forage furnished in kind. Mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile is allowed for travel under orders. The pay of cadets at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, was placed at $540 per annum, by Act of Aug. 7th, 1876, instead of $500 and one ration per diem (equivalent to $609.50), by former laws. The pay of privates runs from $156 ($13 a month and rations) for first two years, to $21 a month after twenty years, service. |