Lampasas Bill
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2018
Many reenactors like to include a bread box in their camp equipment. The following details for boxes appeared in an advertisement for bids placed in the St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat on April 27, 1863, by the "Office Chief Commissary of Subsistence."
"1,000,000 pounds of first quality Pilot Bread, one-third in barrels, one-third in boxes of one hundred pounds in each box, and one-third in boxes of fifty pounds -- the boxes to be made of fully seasoned wood, of such kind as will impart no taste or odor to the bread, bottom and top to be of single pieces, or of two pieces tongued and grooved together, the one hundred pound boxes to be well strapped with hickory straps at the ends and in the middle, and to be of the following exterior dimensions, excluding hoops, viz: 28 inches x 20 inches x 16 inches; the fifty pound boxes to be end strapped, and to be of the following dimensions, viz: 28 inches x 16 inches x 11 inches.
"1,000,000 pounds of first quality Pilot Bread, one-third in barrels, one-third in boxes of one hundred pounds in each box, and one-third in boxes of fifty pounds -- the boxes to be made of fully seasoned wood, of such kind as will impart no taste or odor to the bread, bottom and top to be of single pieces, or of two pieces tongued and grooved together, the one hundred pound boxes to be well strapped with hickory straps at the ends and in the middle, and to be of the following exterior dimensions, excluding hoops, viz: 28 inches x 20 inches x 16 inches; the fifty pound boxes to be end strapped, and to be of the following dimensions, viz: 28 inches x 16 inches x 11 inches.
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