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Killing Lincoln
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- Confederate rations were once a pound of meal and a quarter pound of bacon a day, with an occasional tin of peas.†
p. 16.8 *
- He will let them unpack their rail cars and gulp rations to their hearts' content.†
p. 21.1
- He figures that if he can make it to Amelia Court House before Grant catches him, he and his men will be amply fed by the waiting 350,000 rations of smoked meat, bacon, biscuits, coffee, sugar, flour, and tea that are stockpiled there.†
p. 31.4
- When a soldier became weary he fell out, ate his scanty rations—if indeed, he had any to eat—rested, rose, and resumed the march when the inclination dictated.†
p. 32.9
- And, of course, there were Robert E. Lee's 350,000 missing rations, neatly stacked in a Richmond railway siding instead of being packed on the train that Lee expected in Amelia Court House.†
p. 37.1
- There are no rations for Lee and his men.†
p. 44.1
- His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations allegedly await.†
p. 44.5
- But at last Lee gets good news, in the form of a report from his commissary general, I. M. St. John: 80,000 rations have been rushed to the town of Farmville, just nineteen miles away.†
p. 47.8
- Scouts report that Lee is escaping, marching his men through the night in a bold attempt to reach rations at Farmville.†
p. 48.2
- They were ready to move without rations and travel without rest until the end.†
p. 50.7
- Better yet, there are rations waiting just a few miles away, in Farmville.†
p. 54.3
- After escaping Sayler's Creek the rebels reached Farmville, only to be attacked again and forced to flee before they could finish eating their rations.†
p. 75.4
- A shipment of rations is waiting for Lee and his army at the local railway depot, and Sheridan is convinced that Lee means to use the food to get him one step closer to the Carolinas.†
p. 81.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(ration) a fixed share of something, especially scarce goods like food or fuel; or to limit and distribute something in fixed shares
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)