“The Major counsels economy and will not permit any crumbs to be left on the plates,” Asst. Surgeon Crawford wrote in his journal. “At our meals some officers haul out of their pockets crumbs and pieces of crackers—Major reproved D[oubleday] today and called him back to eat a piece of cracker that was left. One cracker to a man morning and night—none at dinner.” For supper, “rice and coffee.” Doubleday found a potato and squirreled it away, Crawford noted. “He said somebody had tramped on it, but had not hurt it much.”
