Vicksburg, Friday, July 31. The Company is rife with grumbling and discontent, owing to the Company cook operations; sour and heavy bread and other rations uncooked, a barrel of the “infernal liquid” having been drawn at headquarters. A shameful free use of it. Orderly too drunk for duty.
An Artilleryman’s Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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