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to see, two or three thousand men
all at once devouring green corn
The rapid manner in which it
was done. The number of cobs lying near
would have made a
horse blush or a mule smile.
and we were not allowed to build
fires, except at a great distance
in the mean time nearly all of us
devoured ours raw. I eat about
tin can but some of my comrades
swore that they had finished
40 "I caved" and went
to sleep dreaming of beautiful
green fields of corn We left
"Freemans Ford" and on the evening
of 23d Aug [?] tried to
hungry wagons coming up rations
were issued and we were

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