This chapter describes the discontent among the Union ranks caused by delays, exposure, and hunger. As their advance stalled and winter set in, the usual miseries of army life became totally wretched. Water froze in buckets; chunks of ice rattled in canteens. Men unable to sleep would walk through the camps to keep from freezing. Many soldiers received no pay for two, four, or six months, which quite understandably caused them to lose heart. Crammed into cold tents and eating the same old hardtack and salt pork, soldiers readily vented their frustrations and disgust with the whole enterprise.
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