They were even bigger than we were told, and we ate all we could, and put some in our haversacks for the rest.
The potatoes were easy--simply had to crawl into the patch and dig with our fingers until our haversacks were full.
We are all togged out with new blue clothes, haversacks and canteens.
We did nothing more until dinner time and were then told to take our haversacks and canteens with us.
Before we left Catonsville we filled our haversacks with great luscious peaches.
About six o'clock in the evening orders were given to pack haversacks with two days' rations and be in the saddle in forty minutes.
We had started from Port Gibson with three days' rations in our haversacks and had been fighting and undergoing forced marches over almost impassable roads for sixteen days.
It was a service of grave danger, but taking two haversacks the sergeant succeeded in safely passing twice over the dangerous ground and thus enabled the company to hold its threatened lines.
I began to grasp now that after all there was some night expedition on the way, and that the pile of haversacks Joeboy had found had been deposited there to leave the men free and unfettered.
Then sweet hot coffee and slices of bread and cold ham out of one of the haversacks Joeboy had foraged for seemed to quite alter the face of nature.
Haversacks and blankets were immediately thrown off and we were very soon hotly engaged.
Dead soldiers and horses lay in the woods as we passed; broken gun carriages lined the road, and blankets, haversacks and rifles lay around the ground in large numbers.
Bunking with an ignorant foreigner just to get a chance to sneak into camps, and run off with the haversacks that have been carelessly left lying around loose?
And sometimes haversacks do hold all sorts of queer things.
June, the regiment moves out on a scout, leaving every thing but their blankets and haversacks in camp.
In their haversacksthey carry provisions already cooked.
A march of nearly twenty-five miles with almost empty haversacks gave the men reason for being considerably tired.
It would have been enjoyable if our haversacks had not been empty, the injunction to make our last rations hold out six days not having been found practicable.
A very heavy, cold rain had been falling during a large part of the preceding night, hence wet tents increased the burdens of travel while empty haversacks reminded the owner of an equally vacant stomach.
Had we been supplied with rations our pleasure at the prospect and the rest would have been greater, but our haversacks were quite empty.
I heard some of the men say that the enemy had come out with knapsacks, and haversacks filled with rations.
All the troops will move with four days' rations in haversacksand eight days' in wagons.
I myself saw our men taking bread from their haversacks and giving it to the enemy they had so recently been engaged in starving out.
Ordered to have three days' rations in haversacks and prepare to fight.
We unharnessed and tied to the trees our faithful but hungry steeds, scraped our haversacks for the last crumb, after which we laid down all alone and no "grub" for the morrow, but it worried not our lives.
Our haversacks were empty and no grain in the quartermasters' department.
Inspection of men, knapsacks, haversacks and canteens this morning.
Many of them pinched with hunger, brought the boxes of hard-tack to fill their haversacks while under a murderous fire.
Orders were given to Battery to cook three days' rations in their haversacks and three days' in the wagons, all ready to march on the following morning.
Like the thousands whom we had captured during the heat of the battle, they were destitute of clothing, and their haversacks contained nothing but raw corn.
Most of our men had thrown away their knapsacks, some their haversacks and canteens, and sixteen had lost their guns.
The next that came brought in extra haversacks and canteens "for some of the boys who couldn't get off," and these also were provided for.
I have packed haversacks with marching rations for forty-eight hours, a single corn-dodger split and with only a thin slice of bacon between the pieces.
From a large heap of palm leaves, where we had placed and covered up our haversacks in order to preserve them from the wet, we drew them out safe; our precautions had fortunately been successful, they were quite dry.
We still retained the skeleton, which we laid on the sandy beach, as well as our haversacks and guns, and sat down to rest after the fatigue of the journey.
Our working suits which we had worn all through the campaign, and our blankets and haversacks were ordered burned and in place of them we were issued the khaki uniforms of yellow with blue facings.
But these were carried either in the haversacks or rolls and with the heat the envelope flaps became stuck together, likewise the stamps and paper became dirty.
A few of the men had the foresight to stuff whatever food they could into their haversacks but the majority had nothing and went supperless to bed.
The companies which had lost men prepared to march to the hospital to bury the dead and those fortunate ones whose haversacks had been untouched began to light their cooking fires.
The rolls and haversackshad been brought up and having been better guarded from prowling Cubans this time the contents of the haversacks were intact.
Rolls andhaversacks were taken off and piled by the road side.
Three days' rations in haversacks and seven more in wagons gave provisions for a short separation from our base, and orders to send back all baggage to Ringgold were strictly enforced.
We had reached the end of our train journey and were gathering coats and haversacks from the racks above our heads.
The men covered their buttons with mud and sand in order to make them more of a piece with their kharki, and their haversacks in the same way were darkened to match.
Then followed canteens, haversacks and tin plates and cups.
Both boys as they hurried toward the brink of the river commenced to shed their outer garments, having discarded other impedimenta like their haversacks the first thing.
There was an immediate start for the spot where they had placed their haversacksand the food on the preceding night.
We were hungry, and would have eaten something, but our haversacks were empty, and hanging loosely at our side.
To this open space, which was covered over with tall dead grass, we moved our haversacksand bedding.
As time was precious we placed our haversacks and blankets under our arms and stepped outside the tent.
Sutherland and I laid our haversacks and blankets aside, and quietly, though anxiously, awaited their approach.
Our minds were at perfect ease on the question of supplies, as our pillow-slip was full, our haversacks were full, and each of us had a corn-dodger in his hand besides.
Rope lines and traces, and other rope rigging to artillery, and sorghum stalks, sticking in haversacks of Bragg's men, attracted our attention.
We then gathered our haversacksand blankets, and started westward through the woods.
We kept our haversacks and blankets under our arms in such a shape as to imitate closely a bundle of clothing.
Smith and I opened our haversacks and took out some meat.
Our haversacks were filled with food sufficient to last us two or three days.
After adjusting our haversacks and blankets about us, so that we could easily carry them, we set out through the woods in a westerly direction.
Our own company having gone back to camp, no rations had been drawn for us, and our haversacks were almost empty; so I will here relate a mild case of cannibalism.
Some work, one of the coarse canvas haversacksmade by the nuns for Gueldersdorp's enrolled defenders, lay at the girl's feet.
There were haversacks of coarse canvas for the Volunteers, finished and partly made, with ammunition-pouches and bandoliers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haversacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
