. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . f those pretty houses standing back in gardens full ofroses set their cooks to work, or, better still, went themselves into thekitchen, to compound delicious messes for the wounded, after the appetiz-ing old Virginia recipes. Flitting about the streets in the direction ofthe hospitals were smiling, white-jacketed negroes, carrying silver trayswith dishes of fine porcelain under napkins of thick white damask, con-taining soups, creams, jellies, thin biscuit, eggs a la crime, boiled
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . f those pretty houses standing back in gardens full ofroses set their cooks to work, or, better still, went themselves into thekitchen, to compound delicious messes for the wounded, after the appetiz-ing old Virginia recipes. Flitting about the streets in the direction ofthe hospitals were smiling, white-jacketed negroes, carrying silver trayswith dishes of fine porcelain under napkins of thick white damask, con-taining soups, creams, jellies, thin biscuit, eggs a la crime, boiled chicken,etc., surmounted by clusters of freshly gathered flowers. A year later wehad cause to pine after these culinary glories when it came to measuring-out, with sinking hearts, the meagerportions of milk and foodcould afford to give our charges As an instance, however,that quality in food wasnot always appreciatedby the patients, mymother urged uponone of her sufferers(a gaunt and soft-voiced Carolinianfrom the pineywoods district) adelicately served tri-fle from some neigh-boring kitchen. Jes ez you say,. VIEW OF WASHINGTON MONUMENT, IN CAPITOL SQUARE, RICHMOND. old miss, was the weary answer; I aint a-contradictin you. It mout be good for me, but my stom- icks kinder sot agin it. There aint but one thing Im sorter yarnin arter, an thats a dish o greens en bacon fat, with a few molarses poured onto it. From our patients, when they could syllable the tale, we had accountsof the fury of the fight, which were made none the less horrible by suchassistance as imagination could give to the facts. I remember they told usof shot thrown from the enemys batteries, that plowed their way throughlines of flesh and blood before exploding in showers of musket-balls to dostill further havoc. Before these awful missiles, it was said, our men hadfallen in swaths, the living closing over them to press forward in the charge. It was at the end of one of these narrations that a piping voice cam
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