. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers [electronic resource]: including its service as infantry, Second Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . rain-empowering \egetable I That, with coffee,the tin-pot coffee of the soldier by the wavside, was allconquering. Whiskev nor Louisiana rum aint not/rin to dullest of us saw that, one morning on the march, whena well known regiment started out ahead of us swingingalong in fine spirits, for the ardent had been Jiberallv andofRcial
. A history of the Eighth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers [electronic resource]: including its service as infantry, Second Cavalry, and Veteran Battalion in the Civil War of 1861-1865, covering a period of three years, ten months, and nineteen days . rain-empowering \egetable I That, with coffee,the tin-pot coffee of the soldier by the wavside, was allconquering. Whiskev nor Louisiana rum aint not/rin to dullest of us saw that, one morning on the march, whena well known regiment started out ahead of us swingingalong in fine spirits, for the ardent had been Jiberallv andofRciallv dealt out to them, but before ten a. m., the aromaof that juice had evaporated and we in turn passed scoresot them dropped out. Then occurred a dialogue the mostpithy and laconic e\er recorded, Iein, i/d/\ I/ci is Ross of Compan\ B, well known as one of the colorcorporals, sang out to one of the exhausted as he was lyingbeside the road, the single word picket? The fellowbrightened up and indignantly shouted back jiicketwith the downward inflection, as much as to sav in theslang phrase of 1890, What are vou giving us? ^es,coffee was the great invigorator. the soul builder of the sol-dier, a twin with the beans that braced his backbone and. 4 SERGT JACOB F CHANDLER, CO. D. Xkw Hampshire Volunteers. 345 renewed his ^Ilt. What chance had the rve tea and cornpone of the South against our Northern tbdder? Then,too, there was the pecuhar combination known to sailorsas lobscouse — a thick soup of water, hard-tack, pork,beef with vegetables, plain and fresh iVom Mother Earth,if possible ; if not, desicated and concentrated from thesutler, in fact, anything and everything was welcome inthis hotch-potch of a sea-dish. It was good with an appe-tite in front of it. For the • staff of life hard bread wasthe most acceptable form. It was easier to carry than sottbread, and had the advantafjt^ of beino already addition of wee\ils and worms made no difference inthe e
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