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An encounter with ice cream during Harry Gilmor's 1864 Raid , as described by a couple participants.
"At a place called Owings Mills we fell in with Painter's celebrated Ice Cream Saloon + establishment with a large supply of that delightful compound, on hand. We had no rations, and vanilla, Lemon, and so forth were issued to the whole command. They Eat + Eat + Eat until they could Eat no more.
This is the first time a Brigade ever fed on Ice Cream."
-- Bradley T. Johnson to his wife, letter dated July 15, 1864. Bradley T. Johnson Papers, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
"... we struck the establishment of Painter, the then well-known ice-cream man, about daybreak, and found his wagons loaded with this product, just about starting for the Baltimore market. It was the most ludicrous sight to see the ice-cream dished into all conceivavle receptacles, and the whole brigade engaged in feasting on this, to many, a novel luxury as the column moved along. The men carried it in hats, in rubber blankets, in buckets and old tin cans - in fact, anything that would hold the cream was utilized. No spoons were at hand, but as fingers and hands were made before spoons, the natural and primary organs were brought into play. A number of the men from southwest Virginia were not familiar with this delicious food, but were not slow in becoming acquainted with its enticing properties and expressing themselves as being very much satisfied with the 'frozen vittles,' as they termed it."
-- George W. Booth. Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War Between the States, 1861-1865 (Baltimore, privately printed, 1898) p.124.
Eric
An encounter with ice cream during Harry Gilmor's 1864 Raid , as described by a couple participants.
"At a place called Owings Mills we fell in with Painter's celebrated Ice Cream Saloon + establishment with a large supply of that delightful compound, on hand. We had no rations, and vanilla, Lemon, and so forth were issued to the whole command. They Eat + Eat + Eat until they could Eat no more.
This is the first time a Brigade ever fed on Ice Cream."
-- Bradley T. Johnson to his wife, letter dated July 15, 1864. Bradley T. Johnson Papers, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
"... we struck the establishment of Painter, the then well-known ice-cream man, about daybreak, and found his wagons loaded with this product, just about starting for the Baltimore market. It was the most ludicrous sight to see the ice-cream dished into all conceivavle receptacles, and the whole brigade engaged in feasting on this, to many, a novel luxury as the column moved along. The men carried it in hats, in rubber blankets, in buckets and old tin cans - in fact, anything that would hold the cream was utilized. No spoons were at hand, but as fingers and hands were made before spoons, the natural and primary organs were brought into play. A number of the men from southwest Virginia were not familiar with this delicious food, but were not slow in becoming acquainted with its enticing properties and expressing themselves as being very much satisfied with the 'frozen vittles,' as they termed it."
-- George W. Booth. Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War Between the States, 1861-1865 (Baltimore, privately printed, 1898) p.124.
Eric
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