I am here with a cleanup detail from Washington under a flag of truce. There seems to be a work stoppage by the glassblowers trades in the North, a deplorable condition given our dependence upon fresh beer and spirits as a integral element of our field army commissaries. So we are here to retrieve all of the unbroken bottles scattered about, paying your government handsomely for their reclamation and sending them North. It is my job, of course, to select which bottles are reclaimed and to attempt to label them as to their former use. This cannot adequately be done without sampling the dregs. Be that as it may, I also consider it an honor to partake in however a rudimentary fashion to the salutes given to General Newton, being cognizant of the fact that no drop of the celebratory beverages has been wasted.
(Give me that, sergeant! That's my job!)
_________________ General Jos. C. Meyer, ACWGC Union Army Chief of Staff Commander, Army of the Shenandoah Commander, Army of the Tennessee (2011-2014 UA CoA/GinC)
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