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per, made chewing tobacco available to the men at the price of 16 cents a plug. Whiskey was another matter. In the very front of the book, Massie notes that “the following members agree to pay the sums annexed to their names to buy whisAN

UNFINISHED SENTENCE cannot be explained. Perhaps Massie was showing a less educated soldier how to obtain a transfer into the Washington Greys.

key for Company to be placed under control and to be furnished to the men as they require it.”

The men in the list have amounts varying from “none" to $10.00. It is not clear whether they were assessed according to their expected consumption. Neither is it clear what the men did to demonstrate that they “required” whiskey. But since whiskey was used during this bloody war as the

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