Yeah, pretty good stuff and a ****ed sight better than the Salt Pork from Hormel. Will probably eat the rest this weekend along w/ the dessicated vegetables. I wish I could have returned the favor a little better.
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Read that 1 gal. of Molasses was usually issued per 100 men. Since the usual ration also included sugar (lump/brown), what was the molasses used for. Wouldn't expect it to be used for sweetening their coffee due to its 'unique' flavor.
Chuck
Yeah, pretty good stuff and a ****ed sight better than the Salt Pork from Hormel. Will probably eat the rest this weekend along w/ the dessicated vegetables. I wish I could have returned the favor a little better.
Glad you enjoyed, I bought it From the "Turkey Foot Trading Company and Forge"http://www.turkeyfootllc.com/It is also where i bough my Parched Corn and Dried Blue Berries. The prices are pretty good as well.
Shane, Waking up to the three Doe 15 to 20 feet from me Friday morning while i was laid out on my blanket and groundcloth was a experiance i will Never forget..
Plese send my regards to Ms Bobbie and little one
God bless Steven
__________________ Steven Noel Cone Living Historian and Battlefield Preservationest
"Silver Spring Mess" ; "Citizens of the Bonnie Blue" ; "46th Tn Inf. Co. K"
This comes from Service with the Missouri State Guard The Memoir of Brigadier General James Harding: Edited by James McGhee Oak Hills Publishing
"The weather at this time was cold and disagreeable, with a chilly rain. Col. George Vest, now United States senator, insisted on going fishing, notwithstanding the very unfavorable condition of the river and the discouragement he recieved from everyone to whom he made known his intentions. He did go fishing, just below where the troops were crossing, and succeeded in catching some fine cat-fish, which made an acceptable addition to our bill of fare for the supper that night. I don't think any man alive except Vest could have caught fish under the circumstances." (Pg. 48)
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Two nights ago we camped on a lake in Lafayette County Ark the other side of Red River and the boys has some exceeding rich sport seigning the lake with a brush seign. They caught about a waggonload of buffalo fish verry fine, fat, & well flavored. The water became quite muddy. It was'nt over waist deep and the fish could be plainly seen running & popping thier heads up. They got after them with sticks & knives & caught many. One monster alligator garcam plunging and puffing along About 20 men attacked him with clubs. They fought him for about 50 yards when one man mounted him with his knife and he was finally killed - He measured 7 feet 2 inches adn weighed 174 pounds.
Captain Elijah P. Petty October 10, 1862.
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This item from the Petersburg VA "Daily Express" (9 May 1862) doesn't mention troops but if mere kids were haulin'em in, then soldiers in the area were doing it too:
FISHING.--The boys enjoy very fine sport fishing in the [Appomattox] river now, and many an unlucky perch and catfish are drawn from the water. We noticed a number of young sportmen scattered up and down the banks of the river yesterday, nearly all of whom had a good bunch of fish. Some had caught strings of fish so long that it was a hard matter to keep them from dragging on the ground. The little perch, caught by the hook, is sweeter in the palate of the boy than the choicest rock or shad he can buy at market.
Sam and I went a fishing the other day. We caught a good mess duty is heavier than ever on us a heavy picket is kept up along here and a good many in the guard house to guard keeps us on duty nearly all the time Role call four times a day and drill twice a day when the weather will permit So we dont get much time to go fishing.
-Adam Wise Kersh (52nd Va Inf.) to George P. Kersh, March 12, 1864
We are beginning to try our luck fishing now some of the Regiment is out all the time. we catch eels, cat fish, and spots, and some times [unclear: toad ] fish but it is rather early yet. tell Steward we have better times now than him and me had at the old warehouse.
-Nathaniel Dunn (11th Pa Cav.) to his brother, May 4, 1862
30 April 1864 (Sat.) Had Squadron drill in the morning and dress parade in the evening. William Renner, Alph Young and myself went fishing late in the evening. got back about 11 o'clock that night, did not catch any fish worth speaking of.
2 May 1864 (Mon.) Henry Cox, William Wise and myself went fishing, had very heavy rain in the evening.
11 Nov. 1864 (Fri.) Was fishing today caught 40 fish had a good mess, got a letter from S. E. Grove.
12 Nov. 1864 (Sat.) Was out fishing today, 6 prisoners got here from Petersburg.
Photograph from Civil War Collection of the Library of Congress
TITLE: Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Fishing on the James River
CALL NUMBER: LC-B811- 2503[P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpb-01835 (b&w copy scan of left half)
LC-DIG-cwpb-01834 (b&w copy scan of right half)
MEDIUM: 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1861 and 1869]
NOTES:
Caption from negative sleeve: Signal Station, Cobb's Hill, James River, Va.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-2503B) and right (LC-B811-2503A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Forms part of Brady Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
__________________ Steven Noel Cone Living Historian and Battlefield Preservationest
"Silver Spring Mess" ; "Citizens of the Bonnie Blue" ; "46th Tn Inf. Co. K"
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