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- Hannover, Germany
Their rations of whiskey.
"Corporal Lewis Patterson of Company 1, 51st Pennsylvania, a known teetotaler, shattered the ensuing silence with, 'Will you give us our whiskey, Colonel, if we take it?' (The Pennsylvanians had had their liquor ration cut for misconduct on the march.)
'Yes, by God!' cried Ferrero. 'You shall have as much as you want, if you take the bridge.' He added that he would see to it if he had to send back to New York to get the whiskey and pay for it out of his own pocket."
From: http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-antietam-taking-rohrbach-bridge-at-antietam-creek.htm
"Corporal Lewis Patterson of Company 1, 51st Pennsylvania, a known teetotaler, shattered the ensuing silence with, 'Will you give us our whiskey, Colonel, if we take it?' (The Pennsylvanians had had their liquor ration cut for misconduct on the march.)
'Yes, by God!' cried Ferrero. 'You shall have as much as you want, if you take the bridge.' He added that he would see to it if he had to send back to New York to get the whiskey and pay for it out of his own pocket."
From: http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-antietam-taking-rohrbach-bridge-at-antietam-creek.htm
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