{"id":68566,"date":"2021-06-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68566"},"modified":"2021-06-06T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:12:20","slug":"the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Our present ration is not adapted to the abundance of wholesome and cheap food found in the Mississippi Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">Head Quarters Iowa troops<br \/>\nKeokuk June 8 1861<\/p>\n<p>Genl L. Thomas<br \/>\nAdt Geni U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sir<\/p>\n<p>Three regiments each over a thousand strong are now assembled here, and earnestly and anxiously awaiting Complete equipment. I command the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> (The first for 3 years) and it is already pretty well advanced in company and battalion drill.<\/p>\n<p>By your order No. 15 there is allowed to each regiment one asst quartermaster, one asst. surgeon, and 2 lietuen-ants to a company. The regiments are much larger than those we had in Mexico, and I think we will need the same number of officers we had then, i.e. 2 surgeons, 1 quartermaster 1 Commissary and 3 Lieutenants to each company. The quarter master and Commissary may both be detached from the Lieutenants and so of the adjutant if we have 3 Lieutenants to the company.<\/p>\n<p>I shall write the Comissary department on the subject of varying the ration to suit the varied localities of our army, which if necessary I hope you will favor as our present ration is not adapted to the abundance of wholesome and cheap food found in the Mississippi Valley<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Very Respectfully<br \/>\nYour obt Servt<br \/>\nSaml R. Curtis<\/p>\n<p>[copy]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head Quarters Iowa troops Keokuk June 8 1861 Genl L. Thomas Adt Geni U.S.A. Dr Sir Three regiments each over a thousand strong are now assembled here, and earnestly and anxiously awaiting Complete equipment. I command the 2nd (The first for 3 years) and it is already pretty well advanced in company and battalion drill. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Samuel-R.-Curtis-Representative-from-Iowa-35th-Congress.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}