Provisions Onboard the Ship
By Gary Weigel

Each man receives one mattress, woolen blankets, among them white and colored ones, as well as a pillow filled with hair and this is all. In addition, each man receives a wooden bowl and dish. Underneath this room is the room where the water barrels, provisions, and ammunition are stored, for we have 6 cannon on board; the anchor cables are also brought into this room. Underneath this room is still a third room (the bilge), about 3 feet high, where water gathers which is frequently pumped out, but yet not more than once every 3 days. Instead of ballast, this room is filled with stones, balls, and cartridges. Besides me, there is no other CHIRURGUS (surgeon) on this ship. Our ship's provisions are the same for officers and privates; each one has 3 pence deducted per day for his ration, that is about 21 pfennig in Convention money. We receive 4 pounds of ship biscuit per 6 men each day. On other ships, 6 men receive 4 Stuhehen (liquid measure) of Engl. malt beer; a barrel of this beer is set on the foredeck of our ship and each one can drink as he pleases and as much as he wants. The bitters, which are largely brewed in London and other cities, are quite good. In addition, 6 men receive each day the following:

Sunday - 4 pounds of salted pork and yellow peas.
Monday - Sufficient oatmeal; each man 3 ounces of butter and 3 ounces of cheese.
Tuesday - 2 pounds of beef, 3 lbs. of fine flour, 1 lb. of raisins, from which a pudding is made.
Wednesday - Like Monday
Thursday - Like Sunday
Friday - Peas, oatmeal, butter, and cheese.
Saturday - Like Tuesday.

"When the beer is gone" our ship's captain said, "we will get rum, a strong drink." The best rum is distilled in Jamaica, in the West Indies. Would that we do not stay so long on the ship that the beer is finished. We gladly do without the rum, as the beer is very good for us. Everything is cooked with coal on our ship. Since the wind is blowing from the SW, the ships that are still missing will soon arrive.

How To Set Up Camp
By Mark Krug

Armies on the march often sent soldiers ahead of the column to set up camp. This entailed an armed escort, several carts full of tents, and tools for erecting them. Usually the column's commander would select the site using his cavalry to reconnoiter for a proper area. Once; selected, the camp detail would move forward and go to work.

Reenactment events parallel this effort. The host units select an acceptable site in conjunction with the sponsoring community. They plot out where each unit will set up, and then units move forward to erect their respective camps. This process, however, tends to take an excessive; amount of time and energy as any reenactor can tell you.

Consequently, this article set out to organize the effort into several easy steps. For instance, to set up the typical German camp, all one needs is a few simple guidelines. First, all unit members must be familiar with the regulation layout. This entails an NCO tent at the front of the camp.: facing the rope-line. Parallel to this structure is the camp bell of arms and the regimental flag,

Six feet behind the NCO tent begins the perpendicular line of camp tents.

A camp of twenty tents would consist of the first ten tents in the center, paired off back to back. A line of five additional tents parallel this formation on each side, separated by a six foot aisle. Five feet behind this assembly, one erects the flies. At least four feet away from these items, one digs the fire pit.

Assuming many personnel within the regiment own monster wedge tents sporting twelve feet in length, an entire camp would span sixty feet in width and eighty feet in depth. Most events will require no more than ten tents. Assuming this true, camp personnel shall erect the ten center tents back to back with flies and fire pit to the rear.
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