How the Men Came into Line—A Canteen Wash—The Shirks—“I Can’t Get ’Em Up”—“All Present or Accounted For”—“Stable Call”—Kingly Cannoneers and Spare Horses—“Breakfast Call”—“Sick Call”—“Fall In for Your Quinine”—The Beats again—“Lack of Woman’s Nursing”—“Water Call”—Where the Animals were Watered—Number of Animals in the Army—Scarcity of Water—“Fatigue Call”—What it Included—Army Stables—The Picket-Rope—Mortality of Horses—Scarcity of Wood—“Drill Call”—Artillery Drill—Standing Gun Drill—Battery Manœuvres—Sham Fights—Drilling by Bugle Calls—“Dinner Call”—“Retreat”—Scolding Time—“Assembly of Guard”—The Reliefs—Fun for the Corporal—Some of His Trials—“Next Tent Below”—“Tattoo”—Reminiscences—Taps—“Put out that Light!”—“Stop that Talking!” 164 CHAPTER X. RAW RECRUITS. A Scrap of Personal History—A Parent’s Certificate—The Lot of a Recruit—Abused by the Old Hands—Flush with Money—A Practical Joke—Two Classes of Recruits—The Matter-of-fact Recruit a Final Success—The High-toned Recruits—Their _Loud_ Uniform—Scoffers at Government Rations—As Hostlers—The Awkward Squad—The Decline in the Quality of Recruits—Men of ’61-2—Unschooled Soldiers—Hope Deferred—“One Last Embrace”—French Leave Furloughs—Life in Home Camp—Family Knots—A Mother’s Fond Solicitude—Galling Lessons of Obedience—Bounties Paid Recruits—“I’m a Raw Recruit”—“The Substitute” 198 CHAPTER XI. SPECIAL RATIONS. BOXES FROM HOME. Sending for a Box—A Specimen Address—A Typical List of Contents—Impatience at its Non-arrival—Its Inspection at Headquarters—Its Reception at Camp—The Opening—Box-packing as an Art—The Whole Neighborhood Contributes—Soldiers Who Had No Boxes—The Box of the Selfish Man—His Onions—“We’ve Drank from the same Canteen”—THE ARMY SUTLER—His Stock-in-trade—His Prices—The Commissary—Army Fritters—Sutler’s Pies—Sutler’s Risks—Raiding the Sutler—What a Sutler Lost near Brandy Station—War Prices in Dixie 217 CHAPTER XII. FORAGING. Strictly Prohibited at First—Two Reasons Why—The Right and Wrong of It—Innocent Sufferers—Unauthorized Foragers—The Destitution of Some Families—The Family Turnout—Wantonness at Fredericksburg—Authorized Foragers—Their Plunder—Foraging at Wilcox’s Farm—Tobacco Foragers—The Cavalry in Their Rôle—The Infantry—Incidents—Risks Assumed by Foragers—Union Versus Confederate Soldier as a Forager 231 CHAPTER XIII. CORPS AND CORPS BADGES.