The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-16
CONFEDER.IT CORS-BREdD,
Great Slabs Of the Unclcan Stuff Giysn I
the SnldiorA fnr lrDnl

Great Slabs of the Unclcan Stuff Givon to
the Soldiers for Food.
f. c. Bragonicr IN Philadelphia Weekly Tines.
We have actually seen danger in
Cured and instead Of going into the
bomb-proot men await outside of them
the fall of q shell, In order to be on
hand and first in to secure the prize.
But those were hard times furthr poor
Contederates in the trenches, and iron
would secure to them what Conteder-
ate money had long since failed TO do.
just to think Of paying 81 200 for a
barrel of -four, $3.50 ior pair of shad.
$3.50 for days stay at Il hotel (vou
could not well term il bourU and 50
per drink for the yilest Of whiskcv,
and to pay TO the men $ll Of this
worthless stuff per month!
For weeks ut Il time cold cOrn-brcad,
prepared in Richmond and Peters
burg from indifferent, and frequently
Maa "eH Dd %ps 'ae pes. snnH %na the al
in these days was Il ration Of meat
served, and these the men ate, were
satisfied, and on IT did all the hard
fighting in the trenches. The prcpara-
ton OF this corn-bread was IL novel
one in the art Of cooking. The great
aim was to tlo the whole thing In bulk
and with the least trouble or care.
The meal was simply mixed with wa
ter, huSks and all as grOrnd, n little
salt added and the dough baked in
pans nearly three feet long and half as
wide. 1t could not bc clean when il
left the bakery, and its after trcatnen,
| ill served to the men was simply foul.
The long, brown colored cakes, or
slabs, as much like clay colorcd tlau'
stones as could be, were thrown into
TIC dirty box cars, used indiscrimi-
nattly for carrying Of supplies and the
dead and wounded, then piled up by
dirty men and sent to the front
Wagons equally unclcan and in daily
use for every demand Of large army
hauled these tremendous corn slabs to
the men along the lines. l}y the time
II reached them it was the yilcst.
tilthiest Of food. and yet it was eaten
and sustained life ns alluycd hunger.
What must have been the determine
ton Of such men2 On such diet had
they been served for the ordeal await
ing them in the retreat to Appomat-
toX. Horses iarcd hardly better than
the men, and sorricr set of their
klnd cannot well be imagined than
undertook to draw the trains and arlil-
lery on that last eventful retreat.
TIE RUsH OF IMMuGRAT1oN.-Tb
steamship Oder, of the North German
Lloyd line, reached New York last
Saturday, bringing 9s2 Immigrants.
This makes the tota! number of in,ni-
grants landed at this port during this
week 7,SlS, and the total number thus
far this mouth 1854. During the
same period in 1880 the number of
arrivals at Castle Garden was 7,72I.
II The arrivals throughout the month
show the same rate of increase over
last year, the immigration this month
viii exceed the figures recorded for
May. 1880, when more than $4,000
Immigrants arrived at this port. The
total number Of Immigrants arriving
at New York since the first of Janua,
ry is 28,oS7, and for the corresponding
PERIOD last year a., 1899. There arc
now two or three steamers overdue.
winch probably will largely increase
| these figures.