Order to eat mules

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Hargret Rare Documunts Collection #69
 
I have an ancestor who, four decades later, claimed a Confederate pension on the basis of disability from having had to eat "pea bread" during the siege of Vicksburg. I'm a little dubious that was the true cause of whatever chronic gastrointestinal problem ailed him, but it seems to have convinced the pension board.
 
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