I commenced cooking for twenty men of our company. None of
the boys likes cooking, so the seven messes have been consolidated into three
with a cook for each. Mess numbers 1 and 2 have been united, becoming mess
number 1, and I am to be the cook.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 31
1 comment:
I wonder what his cooking was like? From what I've read, he wouldn't have had much to work with!
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