Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Turk's head” in chapter 11 of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies.:

...e who were not men of Bowdoin or Amherst or Yale or Columbia, the test commuted to shivering with pistol shot the musty hard-tack tossed in air, or at race-course gallop, spitting with saberpoint the Turk's head of a junk of condemned pork on the commissary's hitching-post, or picking up a handkerchief from the ground, riding headlong at Tartar speed. Other pranks, of spontaneous and surreptitious discip...
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