. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . rabands, also,arc great foragers, and the chick- mitens and the ducks have to sufferaccordingly. Old Decatur, an aged African,was recently found late at night in the vicinity of a neighbors hen-yard, when he was thus inter-viewed by the proprietor : Its pretty damp, Decatur, for a person with rheumatism tobe prowling around here at this time of the night. Mebbe so, massa, but its de doctors advice. What, do you mean to tell me that the doctor advises you tobe out
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . rabands, also,arc great foragers, and the chick- mitens and the ducks have to sufferaccordingly. Old Decatur, an aged African,was recently found late at night in the vicinity of a neighbors hen-yard, when he was thus inter-viewed by the proprietor : Its pretty damp, Decatur, for a person with rheumatism tobe prowling around here at this time of the night. Mebbe so, massa, but its de doctors advice. What, do you mean to tell me that the doctor advises you tobe out here nights ? No sar, not zactly dat way, sar—but he says, Catur, youmus hab chicken brof, whedder or no ! Our bill of fare at dinner to-day, was as follows, says Chace : * Soup — chicken, mock-turtle, oyster. * Roast — beef, lamb,turkey. Fried—bacon, hard bread. Entrees—olives, sardines,pickled shrimps. * Dessert—nuts, raisins, figs. Drinks—water. Note.—The items marked * were unfortunately overlooked by the cook, and we were con-sequently reduced to fried bacon, hard bread, and water. 2 12 THE TENTH REGIMENT. Tempting Game. Corp. Nathan H. Baker went outon a little foraging expedition yes-terday afternoon, wrote the authorin a letter home, June 27th, andcalling me out, on his return, dis-played a single, solitary chicken. Itwas safely landed in the High School tent, where it was secretlystowed away, and in due time Corp. William P. Vaughan under-took to construct a chicken stew for the whole mess, consisting ofseventeen hungry recruits. He said he could do it, and had neverfailed us on good coffee, but it proved to be fowl play in thisinstance. He proceeded to fill one of our large iron mess bucketswith water, prepared and placed the chicken therein. He then usedup about all our stock of pepper and salt for seasoning, and after somany minutes by the watch, and a pretended tasting, he said fallin for chicken stew. So we all fell in, and each had his share, ashe
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