. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . was a mass of living coals. Some ofthese were raked out, by means of an iron rake, upon the greatbrick hearth, and over them the Dutch ovens, little and big,were set. One contained corn-bread, another mutton, anotherchickens, and so on. The covers were put upon the ovens, — 147 — and shovelfuls of coals heaped u
. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . was a mass of living coals. Some ofthese were raked out, by means of an iron rake, upon the greatbrick hearth, and over them the Dutch ovens, little and big,were set. One contained corn-bread, another mutton, anotherchickens, and so on. The covers were put upon the ovens, — 147 — and shovelfuls of coals heaped upon the covers. The duskypresiding genius seemed to know just the right momentto turn, or baste, or take up; and while a French chef mightwriggle himself out of shape through horror at so primitive amethod of cooking, her sable majesty could have given him anumber of useful hints upon the preparation of appetizingdishes. Some privates in the army prided themselves on being cu-linary artists, and they did the business by wholesale. Thesechefs cooked the salt pork, the beans, the fresh beef and thecoffee of their comrades in the company, and occasionally,when one of them received a pressing invitation to that effectfrom the commanding officer, shouldered a musket, went forth. A CHEF AT $13> MONTH. into the prevailing unpleasantness, and cooked the coffee ofsome unfortunate Johnnie who happened to stand in frontof the bullet that had popped out of his gun. No caterer to the appetite of a Vanderbilt or an Astorcould have been stuffed fuller of professional pride than thesegentry of the mess kettle, who pandered to the appetites ofmen capable of digesting anything that an ostrich couldassimilate. — 148 -^ On one occasion the i i8th relieved a Maine regiment. Theinventive spirit of the Yankee had found vent in the con-struction of a number of water-wheels out of peach-cans, etc.,along the banks of a little stream which flowed near the requests had been left aski
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