. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . rations was as follows: Colonelsof regiments were directed to send in requisitions for somany days rations, depending on the movements on hand,of hard bread and pork, and usually one days rations offresh beef. At brigade head-quarters these requisitionswere consolidated, making the brigade requisition, andforwarded to division head-quarters. Here they wereagain consolidated into a division requisition, and so onuntil the army head-quarters was reached. Then the cor
. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . rations was as follows: Colonelsof regiments were directed to send in requisitions for somany days rations, depending on the movements on hand,of hard bread and pork, and usually one days rations offresh beef. At brigade head-quarters these requisitionswere consolidated, making the brigade requisition, andforwarded to division head-quarters. Here they wereagain consolidated into a division requisition, and so onuntil the army head-quarters was reached. Then the corpscommissary received in bulk enough for his corps, anddistributed it to the divisions in bulk, thence to brigades inbulk, thence to regiments, and finally from the regiment tothe companies, and to the men. A long string of red tape,surely; and it might have been considerably shortened tothe advantage of all, as it was later on. An interesting feature of the issue of rations was themethod of supplying the fresh beef. Live cattle weredriven to the army and issued alive to the several corps. !0 >> • Ii 5 2> ^ ^^^Km.
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