Later , in the long , hot summer twilight , the ambulances came rumbling down the road from the battle field and commissary wagons , covered with muddy canvas .
The whole hospital must have turned out , at least everybody who could walk , and all the men on furlough and sick leave and all the railroad and mail service and hospital and commissary departments between here and macon .
Nearly $ 400 million ( at face value ) in continental money , quartermaster and commissary certificates of the central government , and paper money of the states was issued to defray wartime expenses .