This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
[142]
marching rations ahead of time, proving, season after season, the inadequacy of this ration.
This deficiency of active service had to be made up by shortening the rations issued in camp when the men could live on a contracted diet without detriment to the service.
But they knew nothing of this shortage at the time,--I mean now the rank and file,--else what a universal growl would have rolled through the camps of each army corps while the commissary was “catching up.”
“Where ignorance is bliss,” etc.
Scanned printed text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.