CHAPTER V.

LIFE IN LOG HUTS.

The Plan of a Camp—Inside a Stockade—The Bunks—The Arrangement of the Furniture—Æsthetic Dish-washing—Lighting by Candles and Slush Lamps—Candlesticks—Night-Gowns and Night-Caps—The Shelters in a Rain—“I. C.” Insect Life—_Pediculus Vestimenti_, the Old-time Grayback—Not a Respecter of Rank—The First Grayback Found—(K)nitting Work—“Skirmishing”—Boiling Water the Sovereign Balm—Cleanliness—The Versatile Mess-Kettles—No Magee Ranges Supplied the Soldiers—Washerwomen—No “Boiled Shirts”—Darning and Mending—Government Socks—Cooks—Green Pine as Fuel—Camp Barbers—Future Tacticians 73