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Feeding and watering 8,000 active men and their horses before electricity, gas or motor vehicles were invented must have been an arduous task.
A typical camp kitchen Cooks feed logs into the oven along the tubes whilst women peel the potatoes
An endless stream
of carts poured onto the Common.
3000 kilo of meat were supplied each day. Each
week there were delivered 600 sacks of corn, 80 loads of hay and 60 loads of
straw for the horses. There were 3 mails each day (only 2 on Sundays).
The army
complained that they could not get supplies locally and nearly all had to be
obtained from London merchants. The probable sad truth was that
Chobhammers had no spare food to provide. |
