We draw rations now of equal parts of meal, flour and
crackers, and in amount equal to a one-pound loaf of bread. We have no means
for baking bread, so each man turns over his flour and corn meal to the company
cook, who boils it into a mush. Then at the noon hour he calls out and the men
go and get their portions. Some of us fry the mush with a little bacon, which
makes a very palatable dish. But I cannot understand why it is, that with a
railroad open to our base of supplies, the quartermaster cannot draw full
rations of crackers for the men.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 84
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