5th Maine lads expertly foraged food in the Virginia countryside
Months before William Tecumseh Sherman’s “bummers” made “Georgia howl,” certain 5th Maine Infantry lads, including Corp. William Holmes Morse, expertly foraged — the correct term would be “pilfered” — foodstuffs from unhappy Virginia farmers. In fact, a farmer or two lost a bunch of pigs in the vicinity of 5th Maine pickets in July 1862. […]