We are having some very hot weather. Since coming to
Bolivar, each man is permitted to cook his rations in his own way, and so every
man has a frying pan of some sort, and a tin peach can in which to boil his coffee.
One man in our company, “Long John,” as the boys have nicknamed him, is a great
coffee drinker. He carries a two-quart peach can strapped to his haversack, and
every day buys up one or two rations of coffee from the boys who do not use
much.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 63
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