Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-20
A WAR TIME THANKSGIVING.
How the Day Was Celebrated Under
Great Difficulties.

Great Difficulties.
1t was most natural for the minds of the
soldiers to turn toward the good things at
home when Thanksgiving approached II
the army was lying in camp and communi-
cations with the north were convenient
the matter could be arranged with some
satisfaction by having goodies" sent on
in boxes, and the boys sharing and divid
ing up to give a variety at the feast
Thanksgiving of 1852, however, found
the Army of the Potomac campaigning
toward fredericksburg, on the Kappa
hammock Nearly every mess among the
eastern troops especially, to whom Thanks
giving is the festival of all the year, had
requested boves to be shipped as far AS
Washington. there to take their chances of
transportation to the front.
The last Thursday in November found
them in Washington STILL the contents
spelling if they were perishahle and for
the most part perishable they were The
next resource for something extra with
which to celebrate the occasion was the
suffers store Our regmental sut Ter hav
ing received good scare somewhere on
the peninsula some months before had not
returned to camp Still another thing was
to fall back on the supplies of the country
These, however, were wholly inadequate
VI - ~" C"'"hu
was safe to forage was limited
As the time drew near a knot of men In
our company decided that a Thanksgiving
feast for them was going to be out of the
question, and in order to equalZe things it
was decided to form company of regula
tors and see that none of the other BOYS
had anything beyond the customary ra-
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