Othello's occupation was gone.

They received only one hundred and forty dollars a month then, and the high private got plenty to eat, and Mr.Cormorant quit making as much money as he had heretofore done.

Were you to go to them and make complaint, they would say, "I have issued regular army rations to your company, and what is left over is mine," and they were mighty exact about it.
DALTON We went into winter quarters at Dalton, and remained there during the cold, bad winter of 1863-64, about four months.

The usual routine of army life was carried on day by day, with not many incidents to vary the monotony of camp life.

But occasionally the soldiers would engage in a snow ball battle, in which generals, colonels, captains and privates all took part.