This is a cloudy, cool day and a lonesome Christmas. We are
on one-third rations now and poor prospects of getting more soon. We still have
plenty of rice, although in the hull, so we can get along. Large foraging
parties were sent up the Savannah river to obtain rice straw for our beds and
they brought in large quantities of rice still in the sheaf to feed the horses
and mules. There are some very large rice plantations along the river and there
is a great deal of rice not yet threshed. We had company inspection this
evening. All is quiet.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 240-1
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