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Updated: April 30, 2025
Little Duke Jarl saw men round him growing more gaunt and thin day by day, but he did not understand why till he chanced once upon a soldier gnawing a foul bone for the stray bits of meat that clung to it; then he learned that all in the castle except himself had been put upon quarter-rations, though every day there was more and more fighting work to be done.
This was a supply of food for his army. The troops, during the whole winter, had lived, from day to day, on quarter-rations, doled out to them with a sparing hand; and, in moving now from Petersburg, Lee saw that he must look to supplies somewhere upon his line of retreat.
There were tales, too, of quarter-rations; but these she did not read to her husband, lest the mention of 'bully-beef' should remind him of how his son must be eating forbidden food. Once, even, two fat pigs were captured at a hungry moment for the battalion. But there came a day when S. Cohn seized those letters and read them first.
There will be double rations to-night all round no half-rations, quarter-rations.... No, three-fifths of an ounce of dog-meat and a spoonful of alcohol that's all; that's all, men. Pretty cold night, this minus thirty-eight. Only a quarter of a mile covered to-day. Everybody suffering in their feet, and so weak and starving and freezing." All at once the voice became a wail.
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