The War and Navy Departments are overrun with parties with new war weapons and inventions pertaining to the army and navy. One man has a new projectile, whose destructive merits are said to be beyond anything conceiveable hitherto brought out: another presents an army tent, capable, almost, of holding all out doors, and of being packed small enough to carry in a pocket; another exhibits an army trunk, of small size, which, when opened, is covered into a bedstead with bed and bedding mosquito canopy, cup, saucer, plate, knife, fork—in fact a dining table and all the dinner utensils; half a dozen others present for consideration hospital beds soft and downy while, as if all these failed to save the poor soldier, a legion of others fill up the rear with ambulaces, warranted to carry the dead twelve at a time, which, as a matter of comfort, are each to occupy a separate apartment. Each of these, and a thousand ether invaluable articles, are backed up by a bulky batch of certificates of utility. But the Departments are slow to appreciate their respective merits, much to the disappointment of competitors.
The Lambertville Press, Lambertville, NJ
Funny article – in a ghoulish way. And so soon after First Manassas!