Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — What It Is to Get Hungry in Earnest. [ARTICLE]

What It Is to Get Hungry in Earnest.

Very few persons in this land of plenty know what real hunger is. They imagine a light craving for something to eat, or a little gnawing sensation iu the stomach, to be hunger. A soldier who spent the winter of ’63-’64 on Stringer Bidge, opposite Lookout Mountain, says he was hungry for three months, not a moment of which time he was not anxious for something to eat. They had three small crackers a day, what com they could steal from the starving mules, and a few half-ripe persimmons. One day word was brought to camp that a mule had mired in the mud on the Raccoon Mountain road, and had been killed. He and a numbers of others started in search of the carcass, with visions of mule steak before their eyes. On their arrival they found fully 200 men there who had come on the same errand. Of the mule there were only the hoofs left, two members of the “Hundred and Dutch” (One Hundred and Eighth Ohio) Regiment had just finished a hotly-contested fight for the tail. While they were fighting it was stolen, leaving them only their black eyes and bloody noses as4he result of their battle.—Pittsburgh Dispatch.