Short rations
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"Short Rations" is a war-time phrase that implicates that food supplies are sub-optimal, and an indication that the power of command has ordered the preservation of rations. A call of "short rations" delegates living to the harshest of circumstances and requires reliance on the land as well as unsavory methods of obtaining food such as common theft of livestock.
An 1864 song created by an artist under the pseudonym of "Ye tragic & Ye comic Composer" was published by BLACKMAR & BRO. a lith of J. T. Paterson & Co. in Augusta, Georgia[1]; and relates in the chorus:
| “ | "For we sol-diers have seen some-thing rougher, Than a storm, a re-treat, or a fight, And the bo-dy may toil on and suf-fer, with a' smile, so the heart is alright!" | ” |