Posted on 05/31/2021 7:32:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 30.
One of the events of to-day was the opening of the bids for supplying cattle on the hoof, for the use of the Army. It was a departure from the general rule for the War Department to open bids in public, and to read them off for the information of curious spectators. There were about one hundred and fifty bids put in, but some of them embraced conditions which rendered it necessary that they should be rejected. The bids ranged from $3 90 to $8 per one hundred pounds.
The lowest bidder was found to be Mr. HUGH MAHER, of Chicago, Ill., who offered to furnish whatever was called for at the rate of $3 90 per hundred, delivered at Harrisburgh, and $4 50, delivered at Washington. There was a bid to deliver at Washington at $4 45, but the average of Mr. MAHER's bid is lower than that. It is probable that the bulk of the numbers to be delivered under this letting will be called for at Harrisburgh. Mr. MAHER is known to be responsible, and the contract will, doubtless, be awarded to him. At the rates offered, it seems to be cheaper to feed the troops on fresh beef than on salt.
THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION AGAIN.
The Cabinet had a meeting to-day, as was supposed, for the purpose of determining what should be done with the "inevitable chattel." Our officers are getting more volunteers of that kind than are wanted. In fact, the negro has become a kind of Tartar, that the Government can neither hold nor let go. The Cabinet adjourned without disposing of Sambo -- not a surprising fact, considering that Sambo has been on hand so long.
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Was it Napoleon who said, “an army marches on its stomach?”
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By "short" they mean over within a year, providing no interference from European powers.
This estimate comes, they say, from Union Gen. Scott.
And, turns out, there was no direct interference from Europe, but some Europeans did sell weapons & ships to Confederates, those estimated recently to have allowed Confederates to keep fighting an extra two years.
So, if we recognize Scott's caveat and say Europeans kept Confederates fighting an extra two years, then the Civil War would have ended in 1863, which is still a year longer than Scott "now" predicts.
It will be interesting to see how quickly and firmly reality takes hold...
Here our good editors argue against the practice of "paroling" prisoners of war.
Thankfully for my great grandfather (& me), their advice was not taken until after the parole exchange program broke down in 1863.
I consulted with my psychic and she told me to look out for a little place called Shiloh, which ironically means "peace" in Hebrew. I wonder what she meant?
“It will be interesting to see how quickly and firmly reality takes hold...”
The picnic baskets got jostled July 21.
In April of 1863 there were bread riots all though out the South. It was the largest civil disturbance ever seen during the Confederacy.
Jostled picnic baskets were hardly a trifle.
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