The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865, First division, 12th and 20th corps A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . exture it looked more as if cut from a horse thanan ox; still, when we learned how long to boil it we found itcould be eaten and would sustain life. The ariicle known as desicated vegetables was a compound of almost all varietiesof vegetables : potatoes, cabbage, turnips, parsnips, carrots,etc., dried and pressed into cakes. The swelling piopensi
The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865, First division, 12th and 20th corps A history of its recruiting, organization, camp life, marches and battles, together with a roster of the men composing it .. . exture it looked more as if cut from a horse thanan ox; still, when we learned how long to boil it we found itcould be eaten and would sustain life. The ariicle known as desicated vegetables was a compound of almost all varietiesof vegetables : potatoes, cabbage, turnips, parsnips, carrots,etc., dried and pressed into cakes. The swelling piopensitiesof a piece of this conglomeration has been a matter of amaze- 56 HISTORY OF THE .inent as well as amusement, from the time of the war untilnow\ Wlien used as a seasoning or to thicken a soup moder-ately, most of us learned to like it and rather prized it later Camp Hamilton we cast it out as worthless. The boys^called it consecrated vegetables. In an effort to get away irom flap-jacks and hardtack,kept over from the Mexican war, the bricklayers of the regi-ment, under the directions of the bakers, built ovens for bakingbread. The results were not the most satisfactory, but thebread liaked was better than either of the other Maj. J. J. Johnson. FIRST SURGEON TWENTYSEVENTH IND. VOLS. Capt. Wm. E. Davis, Co. soon .\1ter war. No experienced soldier will be surprised to learn that wehad a violent and sweeping epidemic of homesickness at CampHamilton. Besides the conditions above mentioned, we hadbeen away from home about the right time lor this to super-vene. There was more of it here and it was much more ac-cute in form than at anv other time. There were cases thateventually resulted in death. IManv others were so homesickas to lose temporarily, not only all hope, but all pride andambition. Some had to be forced to wash their clothing andpersons. A few. wlio before had been ratiier high spirited, TWENTY-SEVENTH INDIANA. 57 mettlesome young men, had to b
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