The same old thing over. We are still in camp and on short
rations. The quartermaster tells us to be patient three or four days more, when
he expects to have full rations for us. I hunted about an hour through a
ten-acre cornfield, thinking I might find an ear of corn and parch it to help
relieve my hunger, but the field had been picked over so thoroughly that I did
not even find a nubbin.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 82
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