Nothing of importance. It rained all day. Our company is
divided into messes, seven in all, and each has a cook. Each mess draws its
rations every five days, according to number, and the rations are placed in the
care of the cooks. Some of the cooks are not well posted on cooking. Cook
number 7 wanted to cook some rice for dinner and put his kettle on filled with
rice. Presently he began dipping out rice, as it was running over, and he soon
had his third kettle filled with rice. In finishing it up he let it scorch and
to overcome that he put in some molasses, which the boys foraged out in the
country, and so mess number 7 will have sweet scorched rice for some days to
come.2
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2 Cook number 7 did not hear the
last of it for some time. We all recommended him as being a good hand to cook rice. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 28
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