Company E went out today with the teams to forage for corn
and fodder. We were out northeast about seven miles and found plenty of corn,
but not much fodder. The boys also took some chickens and two fine hogs. The
farmers in this section are not rich, their farms being on the bluffs of the
Tennessee river, but they seem to have plenty and some to spare. When the
quartermaster sends teams out to forage, he calls for a company or perhaps a
whole regiment, and they go and take what they want without asking for it, but
the officer in charge always gives the owner of the property the
quartermaster's receipt.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 71-2
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