The Syracuse Journal, Volume 6, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 January 1914 — Page 4

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The War Fifty Years Ago Rumors of a New Leader For the Federal Army of the Potomac—General Hancock Mentioned as Possible Successor of Meade—Condition of Lee’s Army Confronting Meade’s—Hardships of the Confederate Forces In the Field—Their Rations and Medical Supplies—Dearth of Necessaries Due to the Strictness of Federal Blockade of Southern Seaports. Equipments and Medicines Manufactured at Home.

Sy Cap.'. G’OR-GE L. KILMER. Late U. S. V. A BOUT the middle of January fifty

yer.rs ago rumors were afloat in the north to the effect that the Army of the Potomac

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would soon get a new head in the place of General George G. Meade, its leader during the eventful six months preceding. General W. S. Hancock, the hero of* the defense of Cemetery ridge at Gettysburg, was nained in Washington as the choice of the administration tor the exalted command. There was keen, interest both north and south as to the immediate fortunes of the most [towerful aggregation of Federal troops in the field. The army had faced the rigors of winter weather in a bloodless campaign which ended in November. Its leader might risk another attempt to dislodge the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee from its cantonments within sight of Federal signal stations. Lee was strictly on the defensive and was not likely to take the field unless forced to do so by the aggressions of his powerful opponent Meade’s forces were distributed over a territory in the angle between the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, about twenty miles long and five to ten

• < WsJRJfc X'. *■' s ■- ‘eJar i . iirr iffiill I ». A**.- - acFt.'-. miwB 7 *- a? icFSSP” :: mH? jF x I I -X I w ‘i wßrCopyright by the Patriot Publishing company. A GENERAL’S LOG WONT, OR WINTER “SHEBANG,” ON THE RAPIDAN LINE. [The central figure (wearing aword) is General George G. Meade, commander of the Army of the Potomac. At Meade’a left stands General John Sedgwick, leader of the Sixth corps.]

miles wide. The soldiers burrowed in the earth for protection from the elements. The more ambitious erected log and canvas structures above %hallow places dug in the hillside. Officers and soldiers alike sought to rob winter of its terrors by such festivities as the circumstances would allow. Balls In evergreen pavilions, horse races and other outdoor sports, Including the national game of baseball, then in its infancy, were chief among their pastimes. Plight of Lee’s Soldiers. General Meade’s army was thoroughly equipped and provided with every appliance of modern warfare. On the other hand, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia gained little In numbers by recruiting and had never been so scantily supplied with food and clothing. The equipment as to arms was well enough, but commissary and quartermaster’s supplies were lamentably deficient. A new pair of shoes or an overcoat was. a luxury, and full rations would have astonished the stomachs of Lee’s ragged Confederates. But they took their privations cheerfully. and complaints were seldom heard. One hardy fellow whose trousers were literally “worn to a frazzle’’ and would no longer adhere to his legs even by dint of the most persistent patching became a camp character. Unable to buy. beg or borrow another pair, he wore instead a pair of thin cotton drawers. By nursing these carefully he managed to get through the winter. It was a matter of surprise that these ragged, barefooted, half starved men would fight at all. But the very fact that they remained in the rar&s J. W. ROTHENBERGER : Undertaker : SYRACUSE, : IND. Our circulation is the largest, your sale appear in our paper.

through such winter privations and hardships indicated that they would be dangerous foes to encounter upon the line of battle in the next campaign. General Robert E. Lee’s headquarters were near Orange Court House. They were marked bj' simplicity and absence of military form. Three or four tents of ordinary size made the winter home of himself and his i>ersonal staff It was witlxiHt sentinels or, guards. He used e.ver,v exertion for tilling up the ranks of his army and for obtain* ing supplies for his men. Supplies of meat were brought mainly from the states south of Virginia, and on some days the Army of Northern Virginia had not more than tyventy-four hours’ rations ahead. On one occasion the general received by mail a very small slice of shit pork, accompanied by an anonymous letter saying that this was the daily ration of meat and that the writer, having found it impossible to live on it. had been, though he was a gentleman, reduced by the cravings of hunger to the necessity of stealing. The Confederate Ration. The legal ration of the Confederate soldier at the opening of 18G4 was substantially as follows: Each month the soldier was entitled to ten pounds

of bacon, twenty-six of cornmeal, seven of flour or hard bread, three of rice and one and one-half of salt'. To these were added whan in season and, like all the rest, avanable for distribution in camp and bivouac, fresh meat and vegetables. No sugar, molasses or coffee was given except to the sick. A benevolent association known as the Richmond Ambulance corps looked after the sick and wounded in the field —a work similar in character to that of the United States sanitary commission in the Federal camps. This corps had ample supplies, Including the delicacies, tea, coffee and sugar. Owing ’ to the stringency of the blockade maintained off Confederate seaports by the Federal warships, the southerners' were compelled to, manufacture much war material which they would gladly have purchased in Europe. By the close of 1863 very few ports were accessible to the swiftest of blockade runners, and their arrival was not to be depended upon. Several arsenals, armories, powder mills, harness shops and factories had been established in various parts of the interior of the Confederacy. Medicinal Resources of the South. The stringent blockade also shut out the importation of medical supplies, and not alone the army, but the general public of the south, suffered for want of medicinal resources. However, the packages being small and easily smuggled, quantities were brought in through Mexico via Texas. Quilted petticoats worn by women were padded with quinine and morphia, which later reached Richmond on the James. 1 On one of his raids in west Tennessee the Confederate Gen—“When the days begin to lengthen, then the cold begins to strengthen,” and we feel the need of heartier food like buckwheat cakes. You have the good oldfashioned kind if you buy the Goshen Buckwheat Flour. —Raise healthy calves by feeding Blatchford’s Calf Meal. For sale by John Wingard.

eral Forrest captured four Federal army wagon loads of medicines, worth in the south at least $150,000. Laboratories for the manufacture of medicines were established in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas. A substitute for quinine was made in shape of a compound tincture of willow, dogwood and yellow poplar barks. Various decoctions for internal and external use were made from wild flowers, weeds, leaves, seeds and roots. Some hospitals were so fortunate as be always supplied with quinine, morphia and chloroform. Dressings for the wounded were made by women from old household linen and cotton. Raw cotton was carded and cleaned of seeds, then baked in an oven to sterilize it. Surgical instruments were gleaned from the country at large, imported when possible, captured often and also manufactured at home. Reading matter was scarce, and in order to instruct the people the war department prepared an elaborate treatise which included “Medical Botany of the Southern States.” Federal Annies. The strength of the Federal armies in the field when the year 1864 opened approximated 600,000 men. They were widely distributed and at no ]>oint of concentration numbered as many as 100,000. Recruiting .was prosecuted zealously, and local—that is, town, county and state—bounties rose with each new call from the central government. The United States government paid to the raw recruit a bounty of S3OO and the veteran who re-enlist-ed S4OO. The big premium on gold and high cost of living had much to do with the liberal bounties. With respect to the government bounty, it was urged that as wages had increased in civil employments the government should increase the soldier’s pay, but since it was unwise permanently to raise the pay of the troops the end could be attained by bounty. Although 1863 saw the great emancipation act in full effect, the new

year opened with the negro soldiers fighting in the army of liberation, paying the penalty of color. During the previous year their pay had been reduced below that paid to whites; they were cut off from the pension fund and from bounty. This state of things was not to be remedied until the annual army appropriation bill abolished the color line. Minor Affairs. During the first three years of the war little'attention had been given to the eastern district of Florida by the Federals. Detachments of Confederates were scattered over the region under command of General Joseph Finnegan, a native. On Jan. 14 General Quincy A. Gillmore, commander of the Federal Army of the South, proposed to invade the state In force to procure an outlet for timber, cotton and other products, to cut off the Confederate sources of food supplies, to enlist negroes and to inaugurate measures for the restoration of the state to Federal control. President Lincoln indorsed the movement by sending Colonel John Hay on • a mission to aid in the establishment of a state government uuder United States laws. Political parties were lining up for the canvass of 1864, and a party which dated from the campaign of 1860 had nominated General George B. McClellan for president to succeed Lincoln. Lincoln partisans were active, but had made no formal choice. An independent movement, sustained if not inspired by the New York Herald, advocated the candidacy of General U. S. Grant, either, as a substitute for Lincoln or in opposition to him. *_ —On the 31et' of this month, the Emily»Waterman Concert Company will appear in Syracuse as the next number of the local lecture course Teeth filled, crowned and extracted absolutely without pain. Dr. Cunningham, . Goshen.

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