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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Detailed Minutiae of soldier life. (search)
, and then coffee plenteously without a grain of sugar. For months nothing but flour for bread and then nothing but meal, till all hands longed for a biscuit, or fresh meat until it was nauseating; and then salt-pork without intermission. To be one day without anything to eat was common. Two days fasting, marching and fighting was not uncommon, and there were times when no rations were issued for three or four days. On one march, from Petersburg to Appomattox, no rations were issued to Cutshaw's battalion of artillery for one entire week, and the men subsisted on the corn intended for the battery horses, raw bacon captured from the enemy, and the water of springs, creeks and rivers. No doubt there were other commands suffering the same privations. A soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia was fortunate when he had his flour, meat, sugar and coffee all at the same time and in proper quantity. Having these, the most skillful axeman of the mess hewed down a fine hickory or oak
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Detailed Minutiae of soldier life. (search)
Courthouse. Sunday, April 2d, 1865, found Cutshaw's battalion of artillery occupying the earthw were issued a line of battle was formed with Cutshaw on the right. For what purpose the line was regiments broke and fled in wild confusion. Cutshaw's men stood up, seized their muskets and stoole, the column was formed in line of battle — Cutshaw's battalion near the road and in an old fieldrately as though practicing at a mark. Colonel Cutshaw received a wound which so shattered his lion of Curdsville. It was on this march that Cutshaw's battalion showed itself proof against the ded, and the stampeded troops came rushing by. Cutshaw's battalion stood firmly and quietly, as if oSo many muskets were dropped on the road that Cutshaw's unarmed squad armed itself with abandoned mneral Walker addressed his division, to which Cutshaw's battalion was attached, bidding them fareweations. Captain Fry, who commanded after Colonel Cutshaw was wounded, assembled the battalion, tha[5 more...]