Author: United States War Department

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-28

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9780266897125

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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of War, Vol. 1 of 4: Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the First Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress The question of the sufficiency or insufficiency of the Army ration for Satisfying the requirements of the soldier for food is ably discussed, by officers who have given great attention to the subject, in reports appended to the annual report of the commissary-general. The out come of the whole discussion would seem to indicate the sufficiency of the present ration as a whole, if issued to and consumed by the men, or if the product of such of it as may be sold is applied exclusively to the purchase of food for the men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Report of the Secretary of War, Vol. 1 of 4 written by United States War Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Secretary of War, Vol. 1 of 4: Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the First Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress The question of the sufficiency or insufficiency of the Army ration for Satisfying the requirements of the soldier for food is ably discussed, by officers who have given great attention to the subject, in reports appended to the annual report of the commissary-general. The out come of the whole discussion would seem to indicate the sufficiency of the present ration as a whole, if issued to and consumed by the men, or if the product of such of it as may be sold is applied exclusively to the purchase of food for the men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.