. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . cattle that served for fresh beef for the differentregiments. Every fresh-beef day one of their number wouldgo to the slaughtering ground and bring back a couple ofheads. These were skinned, cracked in pieces with an axe,thrown into a camp kettle and boiled until the meat becameloose on the bones. The meat and bones were the
. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment, 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 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 . cattle that served for fresh beef for the differentregiments. Every fresh-beef day one of their number wouldgo to the slaughtering ground and bring back a couple ofheads. These were skinned, cracked in pieces with an axe,thrown into a camp kettle and boiled until the meat becameloose on the bones. The meat and bones were then removedand beans thrown into the rich liquor and boiled until they be-gan to go to pieces. The five would then sit down to a mealso square that it resembled a cube. The camp-kettle heldabout eight gallons. Five sat down to dinner. Frequentlywhen they rose from the meal, which included bread and meatas well as bean porridge, the camp-kettle was empty. A soldiers capacity was something marvellous. It is re-lated of one mess of but three that, not satisfied with the issueof soft bread—twenty-one loaves in a week—they took advan-tage of their officers privilege to purchase from the commis-sariat, and on their orders bought in addition twenty-one loaves I cant get em up, I cant get em up,I cant get em up, I tell you ;I cant get em up, I cant get em up,I cant get em up at all. The Corporals worse than the Private,The Sergeants worse than the Corporal ^ The Lieutenants worse than the SergeantjBut the Captain s worst of all. I cant get em up, I cant get em up,1 cant get em up this morning;I cant get em up, I cant get em up,1 cant get em up to-day. ASSEMBLY— FALL IN! *^Pf.\ ^1^1 r r*^ -\rrf^r^\r PffnCpf Tp irr^ ^ rrrfrlrJrirrn^-lrrml^rriiJiiir^H FATIGUE CALL. n^ ^^m ^m • ifTifir^ir 0 0 0 /^^ . 0 0 O ^v rrifiNifnrttOir-ir-|i ^ SICK CALI Tune of Come along, Josie, ^2 ^ £ ^ a_ . r .^^11 rr^ m U J^l^ifil- i << d Dr. Thomas says, Dr. Thomas says, Come and get your
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