Tag: food

• Colby 101: We Had Objections

  

  Do officers have special party privileges? …

  Marek

  21 January, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  alcohol, civil war, food, Freeman Colby, Luke Tidd, Nelson

• Colby 100: Warm Weather

  

  Enjoy it while it lasts, and send home for treats!

  Marek

  16 January, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, apples, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, herbs, milk, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, weather

  civil war, food, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, mail, sparerib

• Colby 76: Rations

  

  Talking food with the tent-mates …

  Marek

  26 April, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, hardtack, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  beans, civil war, coffee, food, hardtack, soup

• Colby 64: “Even the Negroes”

  

  1862: Colby vents his jealousy of the treatment received by former slaves …

  Marek

  27 February, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, food, Freedmen, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, food, freedmen

• To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)

  

  A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…

  Marek

  12 August, 2012

  1840s, food, Keene, mills, NH resources & industry, SOURCE=HSCC

  Colony Mill, economy, family, food, jobs, Keene, mills, work