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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
t being the only way they could carry their next meal, as they had no knapsacks. A blanket was slashed around the body, and some had what seemed like a satchel hung at the side, which we took to be either a pouch for cartridges or a place to put a ration of meat. Others had no cartridge pouch at all, and on being asked pulled their cartridges out of their pockets, which seemed to be stuffed full of them. One man told us that he had been furnished with no ration since he left his home in Huntingdon. A number of companies from Schuylkill looked as though taken fresh from the mines, hands and faces being blacked with coal dust. Indeed, all of them might be regarded fairly as the great unwashed, whether coming from Schuylkill or anywhere else. As for uniform, we did not see the slightest pretence at it among any of these men. One German company had not even arms. Several companies had no drummers, and there was one regiment so completely disorganized that the men could not tell