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and first on some rations + sannitary stoves
consisting of twenty or thirty barrels of onion five or six
of pickles + as many of sour craut which was
burnt + otherwise destroyed after supplying ourselves
with all we wanted: we then found 12 barrels of
Ale the heads were at once brokeb in + after giving
each man all he could drink the remainder was
emptied on the ground we now returned to the
Court house in the center of the town; all other forces
having withdrawn left us masters of the city
Our orders were to search the house for a supply of
salt that was somewhere in the city we soon found
75 barrels which was rolled into the street + burnt
this accomplished I took three companies + picketed the
streets in the direction of the enemy while the Col
guaranteed the Regt in the court house the Col + myself
taking lodgings at the Tennessee House where we found
a fine old lady with her two daughters anxious to
minister to our temporal wants- Night now
closed in upon us + I am inclined to think that
company commanders did not keep their men in very
close quarters for sundry sutters storekeepers + others
who had accumulated goods here + could not get them
away came to grief very suddenly whole cheeses by