suttler

As usual, the caravan was accompanied by a suttler from

The Land of Midian 2003

In order to occupy their time, the prisoners made crafts and games with odds and ends from around the complex, a few were purchased from the suttler, or in the case of shell, was sent to them from the South.

HELIX Program « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison 2002

The officiator, vested in a cantab's gown and cap, with a book in one hand and a bell in the other, with a verger on each side, robed, and holding staves (alias broomsticks) and candles, preceded by the suttler, bearing a bowl of punch, entered the parlour, and demanded "If there was an infidel present?"

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

We were received with all the applause that is given by the suttler to all arrivals with a full purse in the holsters, and a handsome valise, no matter from what source filled, on the croupe of the charger.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

Page 149 they came back and our men learned from them that the Captain had taken the suttler out into the woods and shot him, leaving his wagon standing in the road.

The adventures of two Alabama boys, 1912

We saw a suttler pass our camp one day, and just a little later saw this Captain with his scouts going in the same direction.

The adventures of two Alabama boys, 1912

He pushed his empty glass at the suttler who promptly re-filled it.

The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905

The life of the new baby was one of perpetual hurry and scurry; his mother, who had been an old campaigner, daughter of what her son calls "a noted suttler" called Nuttle, had been the widow of a soldier before she married Roger Sterne.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

I have had a belly full of apples to day on the steam boat, there was a barl of on the boat for the [unclear: suttlers] and the end of the barl was open and I eat as many as I could eat. the [unclear: suttler] sells the aples for five sents a peise.

Franklin County: Josiah Bloss to His Sister, April 30, 1863 Josiah Bloss 1863

I have firstrate times here plenty of fresh bred and I buy butter of the [unclear: suttler] for fifty cents a pound. and lots of mustard and pepper. we have good living here I dont care if uncle [sams] sam lets me stay here till the war is over if he gives me plenty of bred pork and beans and potatoes coffee and sugar and tea, vinegar molases candles soap vegetables soap.

Franklin County: Josiah Bloss to His Sister, April 30, 1863 Josiah Bloss 1863