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Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 18. Expedients for Crossing Streams.-No. 18 represents blanket boats on the Potomac, at some distance from shore. A pair of boats carries four men, and a single small boat, made of an ordinary blanket, one man, who is sitting on the bottom. Boats of blankets of the ordinary size are too small. They have buoyancy enough to carry a man, but he must be very expert in the use of a canoe, or he will upset.

Haupt, Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, plate 22. Small Raft of Blanket Boats.