. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORAGING A WEEK BEFORE THE BLOODIEST ASSAULT OF THE WAR Sixth Corps was passing over the canvas pontoon-bridges across the Pamunkey at Hanover-town, May 28, 1804, that this photographwas taken. When the foragers in the foreground have exhausted this particular potato-field, one of the wagons of the quartermasterstrain now crossing on the pontoon will halt and take aboard the prize, carrying it forward to the next regular halt, when the potatoeswill be duly distributed. Not alone potatoes, but wheat and melons and turnips, or any ot
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORAGING A WEEK BEFORE THE BLOODIEST ASSAULT OF THE WAR Sixth Corps was passing over the canvas pontoon-bridges across the Pamunkey at Hanover-town, May 28, 1804, that this photographwas taken. When the foragers in the foreground have exhausted this particular potato-field, one of the wagons of the quartermasterstrain now crossing on the pontoon will halt and take aboard the prize, carrying it forward to the next regular halt, when the potatoeswill be duly distributed. Not alone potatoes, but wheat and melons and turnips, or any other class of eatables apparent to the soldierseye above ground, were thus ruthlessly appropriated. This incongruous episode formed one of the many anomalies of the life of thesoldier on the march. Especially when he was approaching an enemy, he relaxed and endeavored to secure as much comfort as . .1SKSS THE BUSY ENGINEERS STOP TO EAT This is the camp of an engineer or pontonier company. The pontoons resting on their wagon bases are ready to be launched. Butbefore work comes a pause for an important ceremony—dinner. In the eyes of the rank and file the company cook was more im-portant than most officers. The soldiers in the upper photograph are located near the headquarters* wagons, while the cook himself isstanding proudly near the center, monarch of all he surveys. To his left is seen one of the beeves that is soon to be sacrificed to thesoldiers* appetites. Of the two lower photographs on the left-hand page, one shows cooks of the Army of the Potomac in the winter
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