Haversacks
[hævə,sæks]
Examples
- If not already directed, require your men to keep three days' rations in their haversacks, not to be touched until a movement commences. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All the troops will move with four days' rations in haversacks and eight days' in wagons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Three days rations in addition, in haversacks, and fifty rounds of cartridges, were carried on the person of each soldier. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I heard some of the men say that the enemy had come out with knapsacks, and haversacks filled with rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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