The
Canvas Of Which They Were Made Seemed To Me To Be Thin, But Was, I
Think, Always Double.
At this camp there was a house in which the
men took their meals, but I visited other camps in which there was
no such accommodation.
I saw the German regiment called to its
supper by tuck of drum, and the men marched in gallantly, armed
each with a knife and spoon. I managed to make my way in at the
door after them, and can testify to the excellence of the
provisions of which their supper consisted. A poor diet never
enters into any combination of circumstances contemplated by an
American. Let him be where he will, animal food is with him the
first necessary of life, and he is always provided accordingly. As
to those Wisconsin men whom I saw, it was probable that they might
be marched off, down South to Washington, or to the doubtful
glories of the Western campaign under Fremont, before the winter
commenced. The same might have been said of any special regiment.
But taking the whole mass of men who were collected under canvas at
the end of the autumn of 1861, and who were so collected without
arms or military clothing, and without protection from the weather,
it did seem that the task taken in hand by the Commissariat of the
Northern army was one not devoid of difficulty.
The view from Milwaukee over Lake Michigan is very pleasing. One
looks upon a vast expanse of water to which the eye finds no
bounds, and therefore there are none of the common attributes of
lake beauty; but the color of the lake is bright, and within a walk
of the city the traveler comes to the bluffs or low round-topped
hills, from which we can look down upon the shores.
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