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pounds of rice to every 100 men about every third day, with a few peas and dried fruits occasionally. O.R., vol. xxv, part ii, p. 730.

[3] On January 19, 1,200 pairs of shoes and 400 or 500 pairs of blankets were forwarded for issue to men without either in D. H. Hill’s division, O.R., vol. xxi, p. 1097. In the Louisiana brigade on the same date, out of 1,500 men, 400 had no covering for their feet whatever. A large number had not a particle of underclothing, shirts, socks, or drawers; overcoats were so rare as to be a curiosity; the 5th Regiment could not drill for want of shoes; the 8th was almost unfit for duty from the same cause; the condition of the men’s feet, from long exposure, was horrible, and the troops were almost totally unprovided with cooking utensils. O.R., vol. xxi, p. 1098.

[4] O.R., vol. xxi, p. 1098.

[5] Cooke, p. 389.

[6] _The Times,_ June 11, 1863.

[7] Letter from Dr. Hunter McGuire.

[8] General G. B. Gordon. _Introduction to Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson,_ p. 14.

[9] In April he wrote to his wife: “There is increasing probability that I may be elsewhere as the season advances.” That he said no more is characteristic.

[10] “There is no better way of defending a long line than by moving into the enemy’s country.” Lee to General Jones, March 21, 1863; O.R., vol. xxv, part ii, p. 680.

[11] The Army of the Potomac was now constituted as follows:—

Engineer Brigade First Corps Second Corps Third Corps Reynolds Couch Sickles Divisions Birney Berry Whipple Fifth Corps Sixth Corps Eleventh Corps Meade Sedgwick Howard Divisions McLean Von Steinwehr Schurz Twelfth Corps Slocum Divisions Williams Geary Cavalry Corps Stoneman Divisions Pleasanton Averell Gregg.