Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Acquia creek” in chapter 2.42, page 383 of L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion:
...it was smuggled into camp in gun barrels.
At Falmouth, before the battle of Fredericksburg, General Burnside ordered several hundred barrels of commissary whiskey to be sent down from Washington to Acquia creek .
Lieutenant ---- , of the Twenty-ninth New York, acting brigadier commissary in Getty's division, sent repeatedly to the creek for a supply; but every barrel that was furnished here would disappear...
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