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Frank Malcom letters, 1864
1864-12-20 Page 02
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at this place on the 11" of December. how long we will remain here is not known The Campaign so far has been very pleasent have had fine roads & but three or four days of bad weather, we Lived fine while on the moove, had all the fish, Beef Pork chicken Turkeys gees Sweet Potatoes Turnips Corn meal Flour & molasses That we could use, since we have been in Camp we have Lived rather hard. our Supplies not having arrived from the fleet and the forage was all picked up for thirty or forty miles around us So we had to be content for a fiew days with Beef & Corn meal. Our Division drew Their rations from the fleet yesterday, so we now have our regular Army rations again we get one full ration of New York hard bread one half ration of Sugar & Coffee & one full ration of fresh Beef & Salt. I mess with the Non Commissioned Staff, we succeeded in getting two or three bushus of Sweet Potatoes yesterday so we are now living fine, but do not know how long it will last. Dennis & I often wonder what you will have at home for Christmass
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at this place on the 11" of December. how long we will remain here is not known The Campaign so far has been very pleasent have had fine roads & but three or four days of bad weather, we Lived fine while on the moove, had all the fish, Beef Pork chicken Turkeys gees Sweet Potatoes Turnips Corn meal Flour & molasses That we could use, since we have been in Camp we have Lived rather hard. our Supplies not having arrived from the fleet and the forage was all picked up for thirty or forty miles around us So we had to be content for a fiew days with Beef & Corn meal. Our Division drew Their rations from the fleet yesterday, so we now have our regular Army rations again we get one full ration of New York hard bread one half ration of Sugar & Coffee & one full ration of fresh Beef & Salt. I mess with the Non Commissioned Staff, we succeeded in getting two or three bushus of Sweet Potatoes yesterday so we are now living fine, but do not know how long it will last. Dennis & I often wonder what you will have at home for Christmass
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