Something to think on!

[Pvt_Sullivan]

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I'm thinking there where lots of chickens. LOTS OF CHICKENS...

[WestTN_reb]

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I remember reading an account some time ago (I just wish I could remember where) where a Federal was complaining that the men were begging to be issued salt pork, because they were fed up with eating chicken.

[PetePaolillo]

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SWEET TATERS!!!!

[Spinster]

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Sweet potatoes!!

If I had to choose only one food and one food only for the rest of my life, that would be it. :D

[DocReynolds]

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Dang...yew kin eat 'em raw, bile 'em up wif 'lasses or sugar, or fry 'em in bakon grease...thems is a maseter of awl foods...

Pete

[Coatsy]

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Yup,

Sweet Taters are the first item of food listed in many diaries/journels. Porky porky pork is next.


Joe,

Soylent Green is about dead last in choices. Sorry.

[PogueMahone]

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It is unclear who should be more insulted ... me or Pete.

[Pvt_Sullivan]

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Joe,

I don't know if I am offended. If he's confusing you and me now... I must be becoming more honest in my old age, or you're getting better looking.

[blackhattertuck]

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Coats,

Do any journals that you have read list War Roosters on the menu? A book I got at Vicksburg does... Something about how the General was finally fed up with that d___d Rooster... Bawka, Bawka!

[PetePaolillo]

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Coats,

Do any journals that you have read list War Roosters on the menu? A book I got at Vicksburg does... Something about how the General was finally fed up with that d___d Rooster... Bawka, Bawka!

I just read in Glatthaars book that Cock fighting was quite popular among the Foragers and the loser would get cooked for Suppa..So I guess they was eatin Roostas!:D

[Coatsy]

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I had someone bring this up to me the other day. Simple question, but effective.

"So what is the exact time period you are trying to recreate?"

Well we are looking at the opening 10 days of the Savannah Campagin aka the March to the Sea. With all of the reading/research I've found that the sterotype of Gone with the Wind homes getting torched left and right, wanton destruction of private property, speed looting, and a carnival like amtosphere are just.... well sterotypes.

The Federals moved a staggering grand total of around 7 miles the first day out of Atlanta. The next day was around 10 miles.

Sherman had a massive wagon train that he was VERY worried about loosing to that darn Wheeler chap and his men. He desingated one infantry DIVISION per day to guard it.

When those Darn Yankees came up on Middle Georgia homes, they were more apt to loot the out buildings (chicken coops, smoke house, etc) than the homes. Most folks in Middle Georgia were subsistence or yeomen farmers. If you don't understand what that means I suggest reading up on this. I know I have. In the first ten days out the majority of buildings torched were State or Government propert such as telegraph offices, train depots, cotton warehouses, military warehouses and the like. The home/property destruction that everyone thinks of when someone says "March to the Sea" really started up in South Georiga when the Federals started to see the larger farms and plantations. aka RICH PEOPLE (not that the opening of the Savannah Campaign was a kinder/gentler Sherman and Co.)

The short factoids here have been gathered from the Glatthaar, Trudeau, Davis secondary source books and the letters of fomr the likes of Hitchcock, Dolly Burge, and those Offical Records that people mention from time to time.

I cannot say this enough that what we are setting up for all of you to recreate comes from the history books. Eric and Co caught a lot of uncessary silliness because of knapsacks at Rich Mountain. Folks I cannot stress enough that the event is not going to be "easy." The terrain is tough and the personas a participant may enounter will cause you to make tough choices. Stay immersed in your persona.

Billy Yanks... You boys are looking for forage for you and your comrades back in the main column of march. Are you boys looking for a fight? Or are you looking for food. Remember what the men from Sherman's army were looking for when foraging. UncleBilly only allowed 40 rounds per man. No waisting of the ammo on hogs!!! The descrition of "Bummer" has a very broad meaning.

Georiga Militia... This is your home! Can you stand against the overwhelming blue tide? Do you even want to? What exactly did Joe Brown's Pets do??? Mr. Scaife and Mr. Bragg have a book on this very subject.

Confederate.... Wait there are no large Confederates infantry forces afoot in the Peach State during this time period except those at Savannah. General Hardee and his men are busy not having a clue as Sherman and his Blue Horde step off from the ashes of Atlanta. Looks like G.W. Smith, Henry Wayne, Howell Cobb and Joe Brown's 'Pets' are what is left to stem the tide. Inspired leadeship???

This is an immersion event. No one gives a rat's bum about the forums, your kewl gear, the polar ice caps, polar bears, or the internet. Read up on the March to the Sea. When you arrive onsite and are in kit by 5:30pm get into the mindset of one of Sherman's men, Joe Brown's Pets, and the civilians who were caught in the middle.....

[Ken Cornett]

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So Herb, you mean it's not suppose to be a "Vietnam Ambush" with 400-500 Henry rounds per man? :tounge_sm

[PetePaolillo]

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This is an immersion event. No one gives a rat's bum about the forums, your kewl gear, the polar ice caps, polar bears, or the internet. Read up on the March to the Sea. When you arrive onsite and are in kit by 5:30pm get into the mindset of one of Sherman's men, Joe Brown's Pets, and the civilians who were caught in the middle.....

Herb, you are so right....That is the truth

So Herb, you mean it's not suppose to be a "Vietnam Ambush" with 400-500 Henry rounds per man? :tounge_sm

Oh Man!!! LMAO:D.........I could not sit there and let that troll tell lies.. I think that I know what his intention was now though and I fell for it.

[Coatsy]

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Federal participants.. Look at the Cartidge Box of the XV Corps badge to see how many rounds Uncle Billy will let you carry.

[PetePaolillo]

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