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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Remedy for all the diseases of the hog. (search)
has the following, not without interest at this time: One of the most important things with the Roman, and what first engaged his attention in every undertaking, was the res frumentaria, the provision for his troops. He appears to have given much of his personal attention to the commissariat. Fraud and neglect could not easily elude his vigilance. In all our modern armies this appears to be the great stumbling block. Soldiers are often seen perishing with want and privation, like Tantalus, in the midst of abundance. Yet it is seldom, for want of means for preventing it, that such a state of things exists. The wants of the soldier are few and simple; his sacrifices, among our people at least, great and many: it should be the duty of those in power to see that he was well cared for. Napoleon thought the great essential was that every soldier should have two pairs of good shoes. We are told that the shoes given to the Northern army are often of the most miserable materials.