{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11486101","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11486101","state":"Tennessee","county":"Marion","location_type":"County","file_year":1861,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to select committee","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"Capt. D. W. Alexander of the Marshall Rangers and 1st Lt. G. Malcomb of the Marion Dragoons ask that the Legislature \"authorize by Law the hiring of three free negro men, at a price not exceeding the pay of a soldier to a company ... to attend to the preparing the meals for the Company & to be held responsible by the Captain for provisions placed in their charge.\"  The officers purport that both time and money will be saved and \"besides this you then have regular & Experienced cooks, and the Soldiers not kept from Drill, to attend to this duty, and can keep themselves much more clean & neat in appearance.\"  They predict that \"under this proposed arrangement, the meals for the entire company are all ready at the same time, which is a matter of no small importance.\"  They therefore pray that said \"economical & money saving measure\" be approved.","subjects":[{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Civil War, impact of"},{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"}]}]}