Lampasas Bill
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2018
The following details appeared in an advertisement for bids placed in the St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat by the "Offrice Chief Commissary of Subsistence." The call for bids was dated April 27, 1863.
1,000,000 pounds of first quality Pilot Bread, one-third in barrels, one-third in boxes of one hundred pounds of bread 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.
The mind boggles at the amount of pilot bread consumed during the war. I understand that some continued to be issued long after the war ended.
1,000,000 pounds of first quality Pilot Bread, one-third in barrels, one-third in boxes of one hundred pounds of bread 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.
The mind boggles at the amount of pilot bread consumed during the war. I understand that some continued to be issued long after the war ended.
Bringing the