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rocure coffee. Coffee is a great stimulant and invigorator. In the French army it is greatly in use, and perhaps deserves no little credit for some great victories. In the Yankee army the men have regular spirit and coffee rations. It is rather hard that our brave fellows should have neither, and be obliged to contend against superior numbers besides. This great omission ought at once to be rectified. There ought to be whiskey enough in the country to supply an army as large as that of Xerxes for a year. We had supposed when the sale of whiskey was prohibited to citizens and to soldiers in cities, one object was to preserve the supply, which, in moderate quantities, is highly important for the fighting man. It was right and proper to keep whiskey out of the hands of those who would use it for evil purposes, and to prevent soldiers who are off duty from drinking to excess; but a wine glass full twice a day to a man who is digging ditches from sunrise till sunset, and sleeping on