Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 372
feed them well. Of provisions. Uncle Sam usually gave us a suffi-ciency ; but the table to which he invited his boyswas furnished with no delicacies and but littlevariety. On first entering the service, the drawing i883.) RECOLLECTIONS OF A DRUMMER-BOY. 839 of rations was quite an undertaking, for… … your hard-tack ! was leisurely responded to byonly about a dozen men—lean, sinewy, hungry-looking fellows, each with his haversack in hand.I can see them yet, as they sat around a gumblanket spread on the ground, on which werea small heap of sugar, another of coffee, andanother of rice, may be,…
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