. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . Make-up of the Fighting Machine from which details were made of men who had been butch-ers, who killed and dressed the beef. The animals weredriven into an enclosure and expert marksmen shot themdown as wanted. This seemed cruel work, but it was welldone; the animal being hit usually at the base of its horns,death was instantaneous. This fresh meat, which we gotbut seldom after the march began, was cooked and eatenthe day it was issued. Enough for one day was all t
. War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion . Make-up of the Fighting Machine from which details were made of men who had been butch-ers, who killed and dressed the beef. The animals weredriven into an enclosure and expert marksmen shot themdown as wanted. This seemed cruel work, but it was welldone; the animal being hit usually at the base of its horns,death was instantaneous. This fresh meat, which we gotbut seldom after the march began, was cooked and eatenthe day it was issued. Enough for one day was all thatwas issued at a time, and this, after the non-eatable por-tions had been eliminated, did not overburden the men. The hard bread was a square cracker about the size ofan ordinary soda cracker, only thicker, and very hard anddry. It was supposed to be of the same quality as sea bis-cuit or pilot bread, but I never saw any equal to thatarticle. The salt pork was usually good for pork, butit was a great trial to us all to come down to campfare, hardtack and pork. Sometimes the hardtackwas very old and poor. I have seen many a
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