. Footprints through Dixie : everyday life of the man under a musket : on the firing line, and in the trenches, 1862-1865 . r 29, accompanied by a comrade we go out to take aview of the landscape and during our travels scare from a brush heapa bunch of land sharks, called hogs by natives. My aim is as poor asthe animal for he stands edgeway and I miss him. Partner doesbetter and brings down the game. The sharks innards are soon re-moved when we string the carcass on a rail and each taking an end ofthe rail we keep step until camp is reached. Fumes from frying porksoon attract notice among memb
. Footprints through Dixie : everyday life of the man under a musket : on the firing line, and in the trenches, 1862-1865 . r 29, accompanied by a comrade we go out to take aview of the landscape and during our travels scare from a brush heapa bunch of land sharks, called hogs by natives. My aim is as poor asthe animal for he stands edgeway and I miss him. Partner doesbetter and brings down the game. The sharks innards are soon re-moved when we string the carcass on a rail and each taking an end ofthe rail we keep step until camp is reached. Fumes from frying porksoon attract notice among members of the company who gatheraround and get their rations while the carcass lasts. Its a feast orfamine with the men in ranks with the famine end largely in the ma-jority. On December 30 and 31 the weather is stormy until late in theafternoon of the thirty-first. On the last day of the year we draw-rations, are mustered for pay, and receive our first mail since the bat-tle of Nashville. This closes my diary for 1864. I find the following memorandaof clothing drawn during the year, viz: Three pairs of pants costing 159. Footprints Through Dixie $ pair; four pairs of drawers costing 65 cents per pair; three shirtsat 80 cents each; seven pairs of shoes at $ per pair; two overcoatsat $ each; three pairs socks 60 cents each; one blouse $; onecanteen 40 cents and one haversack 50 cents. This does not cover theamount of clothing used during the year. Clothing cannot always behad when needed and must be bought or confiscated along the are allowed fifty-two dollars a year for clothing; all drawn inexcess of this is taken from our pay and if the full allowance is notdrawn we are paid the difference. From my pay during the year onehundred and forty seven dollars has been sent home, now worth sixtydollars in gold. Since entering service the pay of private soldiers hasbeen increased three dollars per month and five dollars increase fornon-commissioned officers. The fe
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